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Director – Product Design

Director – Product Design

CompanyHandshake
LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
Salary$255000 – $270000
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • You’ve designed and shipped products, especially for mobile platforms, that customers love, and can systematically, clearly articulate what it took to make that happen, from high-level strategy down to pixel-level decision-making
  • You have plenty of experience navigating complex systems, ambiguity, experimentation; you’re pragmatic, flexible, and creative in seeking out solutions and paths forward
  • You relish using your design skills to bring clarity and simplicity to both process and product, and can demonstrate that you’ve done so effectively in the past
  • You’ve got a track record of building up and developing happy, high-performing teams; you take pride and joy in setting up designers from a wide variety of backgrounds for top-notch performance, impeccable vibes and constant learning; you seek innovative ways to flow around any barriers
  • You’re humble and kind despite your track record, excited to keep learning, curious about the workings of a three-sided marketplace and ever-evolving team / product surface area

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate closely with your cross-functional partners: research, product, engineering, analytics, marketing – to ship and iterate on strategic, well-thought-out, surprisingly great-to-use products that make real impact for both our customers and business
  • Set your team up to succeed: hire and grow the team; raise the bar on culture, operations, and execution of design work, including product reasoning, systems thinking, pixel level precision, mobile prototyping, ability to facilitate conversations with and present to stakeholders, stellar teamwork and mentoring
  • Strengthen the overall product organization’s ability to experiment, iterate, and learn alongside your product organization lead teammates; develop well-informed strategic visions of where we’re headed, break up those visions into pragmatic phases to scaffold our way forward
  • Influence and evolve creative direction and information architecture alongside your design leader teammates and the VP of Design to weave a seamless, symbiotic experience across the disparate areas of our three-sided marketplace
  • Foster and operationalize a productive, inclusive design team culture alongside your design leads teammates, ensuring everyone is supported and set up to do their best work and their best teamwork

Preferred Qualifications

  • Extra bonus if you’re experienced with leading one or more of: multi-sided marketplaces, growth, design systems, b2b