What You'll Do

• Define and drive a holistic design and UX vision that inspires innovation and aligns with CompanyCam’s business goals.
• Partner with executive leadership to craft, communicate, and champion product design strategy across time horizons.
• Lead, mentor, and grow the Product Design team, fostering a culture grounded in craft, collaboration, inclusive practices, and healthy feedback.
• Recruit, hire, and develop exceptional designers while building an environment of psychological safety and continuous learning.
• Establish processes and frameworks that raise the bar for design standards, quality, discovery, and delivery.
• Champion design thinking and user-centered design principles throughout the organization.
• Build mechanisms for measuring design impact and clearly communicating design value to stakeholders.
• Elevate design quality by auditing current experiences and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Model high-quality feedback, critique, and cross-functional collaboration to strengthen team culture.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Product Ops, and Data to guide work from discovery through delivery.
• Evolve design practices around new technologies, including AI prototypes, voice interfaces, and emerging UX patterns.
• Strengthen shared design systems, ensuring consistent user experiences across product squads.
• Build and support robust user testing and discovery practices to keep customer needs at the center.
• Communicate insights, opportunities, and recommendations to executive leadership.
• Lead by example, demonstrating excellence in UX strategy, craft, and cross-functional partnership.
• Foster alignment and collaboration across functions to ensure healthy product development rhythms.
• Ensure designers proactively communicate, plan, and influence outcomes throughout the product lifecycle.

The Impact You'll Have

• Shape the future of how users experience CompanyCam and how designers experience working here.
• Your leadership will elevate the quality, consistency, and usability of product experiences.
• Designers will grow their craft, confidence, and careers under your guidance.
• The design organization will operate with greater clarity, alignment, and impact.
• Cross-functional teams will benefit from clearer discovery, stronger collaboration, and shared understanding of customer needs.
• Design will become a more powerful lever for business success and customer delight.

What You'll Bring

• 10+ years of design experience with a portfolio showcasing intuitive, visually compelling product experiences.
• 3–5 years leading designers and design managers with a track record of talent development and building psychologically safe, high-performing teams.
• Confidence and capability in performance management, delivering clear guidance and accountability.
• Strong design foundation and aesthetic, demonstrating craftsmanship, simplicity, and attention to detail.
• Deep expertise in UX strategy, systems thinking, and scaling design practices across teams.
• Proven ability to collaborate with Product and Engineering partners on strategy and execution.
• Strong understanding of design systems, patterns, and technical feasibility.
• Experience with user research, qualitative methods, and translating insights into decisions.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills.
• Experience operating in fast-paced environments.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience leveraging Continuous Discovery Habits (CDH).
• Background in mobile and web app design.
• History of launching successful consumer apps at scale.
• Experience developing and implementing a design system.
• Familiarity with data analysis and integrating quantitative and qualitative insights.
• Understanding of emerging technologies like AI/ML and their implications for product design.