ROLE
- Build and manage a high-performing design team through mentorship, coaching, and clear goal-setting to drive both individual and collective growth
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to plan resources, establish milestones, and ensure smooth delivery of design work across projects
- Drive design quality and innovation by establishing robust review processes, feedback mechanisms, and design tooling infrastructure
- Create and champion point-of-views on resolving UX debt and identifying opportunities for design innovation across products
- Lead the planning and execution of discovery projects to develop new features and design directions, while de-risking design complexities
- Guide the team in elevating their craft across UI/UX design, visual design, and product copy through hands-on mentorship and structured training
- Develop and implement day-to-day design management processes and enablement tools to facilitate efficient, high-quality design work
- Foster a team culture that embraces extraordinary quality, remarkable attention to detail, and continuous innovation
- Provide strategic design leadership in project execution, from conception through launch, ensuring alignment with company principles and quality standards
- Build strong partnerships across Product, Engineering, and senior leadership to influence product strategy and champion design excellence
SOUND LIKE YOU?
- You have 8+ years of experience in consumer-facing technology companies or startups, with 3 years of experience leading and managing design teams.
- You have a track record of leading and developing high-performing, inclusive, and mission-driven design teams.
- You have a demonstrated mastery of product design, prototyping, visual design, interaction design, typography, and layout & visual hierarchy.
- You have led the design strategy of a product, turning long-term objectives into initiatives that you and your teams successfully executed against.
- You love exploring new and existing paradigms and are exceptionally curious about technology, design, product, and people.
- You thrive in ambiguity and are excited by the opportunity to design processes that can help you understand, iterate, and validate your design ideas.
- You understand human behavior and develop targeted strategies with this in mind, enjoying creating delight and moments of pleasant surprise.
- You're able to distill complexity into clear and concise messaging and are effective across various mediums.
BENEFITS
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance: 100% coverage for you and 75% coverage for all your dependents.
- Generous and flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) policy, with an average of 20 days per year.
- $3000 per year towards professional development.
- Custom MacBook Pro and $1000 budget for workstation setup.