Director of Product Design
Skills
AnalyticsBuffer Social Media ManagementBusinessContextCraftsExecutive VisibilityStructured Finance
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
