An exciting direct hire opportunity for Head of Digital and Product Design. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in design leadership with 12+ years of combined product and visual design experience.
Responsibilities:
- Help to lead and grow the design team through strong mentorship and empathy
- Promote a high standard of visual and product design across the team
- Run regular design reviews that foster collaboration and creativity
- Help to support and scale our unique culture and values
- Lead collaboration across product, marketing, business, and engineering balancing the priorities of different stakeholders and distilling complex narratives
- Partner with others in product, marketing, business, and engineering to advance our user experience and help achieve our creative vision
- Work with our design team to build upon and maintain our complex design system and libraries
- Be a champion of our brand, creating delightful end-to-end experiences with a focus on delighting our customers
- Develop original, breakthrough creative and design for a variety of marketing and brand experience touch-points
- Actively prototype, test, and iterate new features in collaboration with others
- Craft a consistent design identity and story connecting our marketing and product
- Work closely with internal and external teams to apply our design principles and values to improve the effectiveness of our acquisition and awareness campaigns
- Work with our product designers to lead and leverage qualitative and quantitative data to drive product thinking and strategy
- Lead evolution of our visual brand design system'
Qualifications:
- 5+ years experience in a design leadership role with 12+ years combined product and visual design experience
- Examples of fresh, lively design, including consumer-facing advertising work
- A strong empathetic spirit and enthusiasm for mentoring, managing, and building a diverse and thoughtful team of creatives
- A passion for continually exploring the edges of brand expression to make an indelible impression through well articulated campaigns
- Awareness of marketing design standards and leading practices for specific marketing channels
- Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and vision, and articulate that vision for both designers and non-designers
- Capability to produce and lead others in creative visual design work
- Experience using user research and analytics to inform design and marketing decisions
- A deep understanding of brand and visual design principles and how those principles can be extended to accommodate functional needs
- Ability to own the end-to-end design process from concept through implementation
- Experience designing with and for diverse groups of people
- Strong and unique perspective and aesthetic that stands out from established conventions