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Director of Product Design
| Company | Juniper Square |
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| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $250000 – $300000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 12+ years of product design experience, with 6+ years managing and scaling product design teams
- Proven track record as a director-level design leader in rapidly growing enterprise/B2B software companies with top-notch design standards (financial or investment technology experience is a plus)
- Interest and curiosity to explore new ways of working with AI-first design tools to transform the software design and development process
- Experience scaling design teams (5-20+ people) while maintaining a high bar for quality and culture
- High personal standards for visual, interaction, content, and other aspects of design quality, and strong ability to build empathy with users
- Ability to nurture a healthy design culture, both within the design team and across the company
- Experience building and maintaining design systems in complex product environments
- Track record of transforming product experiences to create measurable business impact
- Strong portfolio demonstrating evolution from IC designer to influential design leader, showing exceptional design craft
- Experience transitioning teams from startup to scale-up practices
Responsibilities
- Lead and scale a high-performance product design team, while strengthening our culture of excellence and innovation
- Lead our growing adoption of AI-first design tools, and pioneer new ways to transform the development process through AI-enabled rapid prototyping, in partnership with our product management and engineering teams
- Identify and drive step-change improvements in product experience that differentiate us in the market
- Lead efforts to develop innovative design patterns for our customer-facing AI products
- Uphold our high bar for talent as you grow the team and build specialist design functions over time
- Promote professional and career development for design team members
- Champion user-centered design across the organization, and drive company-wide design vision and strategy
- Partner with our engineering team to strengthen design systems and front-end capabilities
- Collaborate with our marketing, sales, customer experience, and fund administration teams to deepen understanding of our customers’ needs, and coordinate brand and product design strategies
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.
