Director of Product Design

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Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • 8+ years in product or UX design
  • Several years leading managing and growing designers
  • Track record of setting design strategy and raising design maturity
  • Strong portfolio and design point of view
  • Judgment about AI-assisted design and prototyping workflows
  • Experience owning a design system across multiple teams or product areas
  • Fluency in user-centered design user research and usability testing
  • Comfort using analytics and behavior data to inform decisions
  • Excellent communication and executive presence
  • Ability to influence Product and Engineering peers and align teams async
  • Comfort operating in a remote fast-moving environment
  • Expertise in Figma strongly preferred
  • Match with core pillars Teamwork Excellence and Integrity

Nice to have

  • Hands-on leadership
  • Strategic mindset
  • High craft standard
  • Executive presence
  • Remote collaboration
  • Customer focus

Day to day

  • Lead design strategy across all product suites and set a clear quality bar for the function
  • Own one embedded product-suite trio as a hands-on designer shaping problems flows and solutions with customers
  • Use AI-accelerated prototyping high-fidelity concept builds and rapid usability testing to validate ideas quickly
  • Mentor and grow a distributed design team while partnering closely with Product and Engineering leadership

Hiring process

  • Apply via Workable portal
  • Phone screen with PeopleOps
  • Hiring manager conversation with VP of Product
  • Final onsite panel in Columbus OH
  • Offer and background check
  • Onsite onboarding week in Columbus OH