Director of Product Design
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Requirements
- At least 10 years of product design, user experience, or user interface experience, including at least 3 years at a strategic or leadership level.
- Experience building or significantly scaling a design practice by establishing or elevating its processes, standards, culture, and maturity.
- A portfolio demonstrating systems thinking and refined design craft.
- Experience partnering with senior leadership and influencing product direction at the executive level.
- Proficiency in Figma, prototyping tools, and artificial intelligence tools used in modern design practices.
- Deep, hands-on understanding of user research methodologies and their operationalization.
- Experience mentoring designers and elevating the design craft of colleagues.
- Experience designing for business-to-business software as a service, enterprise platforms, or data-dense products.
- At least 3 years leading designers or a design function, with a track record of hiring and growing teams.
- Experience leading design in a distributed, multi-time-zone organization.
- Working knowledge of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and inclusive design practices.
- Strong command of interaction design and information architecture for complex products.
Responsibilities
- Evolve the design operating model, rituals, and standards, including user-testing and research cadences, ideation workshops, critiques, and engineering handoff.
- Define and champion a cohesive design vision across product lines and translate business goals into design principles and a scalable design system.
- Set user-experience and user-interface strategy and design direction with the Chief Product Officer, and represent design in product and engineering planning.
- Define and track user-experience metrics that demonstrate design impact and drive continuous improvement.
- Mentor, coach, and set direction for designers across the team while building the foundation for a growing design organization.
- Own the design hiring plan, define roles, recruit designers, and grow the team as the practice scales.
- Own the design toolchain and operations, including tools, platforms, and vendor relationships.
- Establish accessibility and quality standards across product surfaces.
- Lead end-to-end design for key product surfaces from discovery and user research through wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity specifications ready for engineering handoff.
- Conduct user research, synthesize insights, and translate findings into actionable design decisions.
- Build, evolve, and maintain a scalable design system and its documentation.
- Implement artificial intelligence tools to accelerate production and maintain design components.
- Facilitate workshops, design sprints, and reviews with stakeholders using user-experience and design-thinking practices.
- Collaborate with engineering to ensure high-quality implementation and gather feedback from customer-facing teams and product managers to inform design direction.
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