What You Will Do
Strategic Leadership & Business Impact
- Influence Discovery: You understand the context and business case deep enough to influence early-phase needs during discovery.
- Working Group Leadership: You hold leadership and accountability in at least one internal working group (e.g., Accessibility, Design Patterns/System) to ensure continued growth and connection across the wider team.
- Stakeholder Engagement: You actively engage stakeholders for product improvements and drive new project initiatives, ensuring the team is working toward shared goals.
Execution, Craft & Accessibility
- Accessibility (A11y) First: You maintain a holistic design process that puts Accessibility first.
- Unbiased Prototyping: You are clear on the story you are telling.
- Reliable Delivery: You set the schedule for task completion and never miss a deadline you have committed to.
- Collaborative Planning: When complex scheduling problems arise (e.g., scope creep), you proactively identify the issues and partner with Team Leads to replan appropriately.
Mentorship, Culture & Communication
- Communication Standards: You set the bar for communication.
- Intentional Inquiry: You ask "why" with intention.
- Feedback Ecosystem: You help create an environment and team structure conducive to feedback.
What You Will Need
- 5+ years of experience in product design, with a portfolio demonstrating strategic impact and complex problem solving.
- Figma Expertise: Extensive experience using Figma to develop concepts, prototypes and hi-fidelity designs.
- AI-Accelerated Design: Expertly leverage AI tools (e.g., Figma Make, Gemini etc) to refine design requirements.
- A Pacesetter Mindset: A proven ability to differentiate your work through innovation and critical thinking.
- Systems Thinking: Experience leading initiatives that span multiple teams or systems.
- Mentorship Experience: A history of actively mentoring teammates.
- Operational Awareness: The ability to apply familiar processes while experimenting with new techniques.
Key Competencies for Success
- Optimistic Maturity: You closely partner with leadership.
- Shared Understanding: You prioritize alignment over being "right.".
- Accountability: You hold yourself accountable for decisions and outcomes.
- Bias Removal: You effectively use questions and prototype fidelity to obtain unbiased information.
