Job Description
Youโll lead the design organization at Notion, the group responsible for crafting the experiences and interfaces in which our users interact with at Notion. Youโll recruit and manage designers and design managers, as well as drive the company strategy for leveraging design.
What You'll Do:
- You'll build and manage a diverse and inclusive team of designers and design managers working to drive effective use of data across the organization.
- You'll recruit, coach, and develop designers and design managers; you'll ensure people in your group are regularly receiving feedback and that they are making rapid progress on personal and professional goals.
- You'll guide the company's strategy to maximize the use of design, focusing particularly on collaborating with cross-functional departments like product and engineering.
- You'll be responsible for enhancing the quality of work in a company that deeply values craftsmanship, aesthetics, and usability.
- You'll work with executive leadership to shape how Notion's design organization operatesโyou'll help develop our best practices, recruiting and onboarding strategy, planning and prioritization process, and more.
What We're Looking For:
- You've managed a design organization with more than thirty designers and end-to-end responsibility for a user-facing product with substantial surface area.
- You have built, or are committed to building, diverse and inclusive teams; you value empathetic and direct communication and foster environments that are at once collaborative, empowering, supportive, and challengingโones where people do their best work.
- You have a track record of managing design teams that work proactively to drive impact with their partners across the business.
- You have a track record of managing teams that successfully ship high-quality products with refined user experiences, ideally productivity, collaboration or consumer products.
Bonus Points:
- You have managed and scaled design teams at startups before, particularly during periods of rapid growth and organizational change.
- You have experience rolling out design and management practices and processes where they didn't exist before.
- You've managed teams that are geographically distributed across multiple offices and timezones.
- You've heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and othersโand understand why we're big fans of their work.
