Lead Product Designer m/f/x (Remote)

Lead Product Designer m/f/x (Remote)

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Remote

Reporting To: Saket Vangara

Description

We are looking for a Product Design Lead to take ownership of our app’s end-to-end design experience and design system. This is a player-coach role in which you will be a part of one product-engineering team and work hands-on with that team on various projects, while also managing and mentoring a small team of product designers who are a part of other teams. You will play a crucial role in defining and implementing our design strategy, ensuring that our product solutions are user-friendly, accessible, and are aligned with business goals.

How will you make an impact:

• Help define product priorities by partnering with cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Engineering, Content) and ensuring that priorities are aligned with the company strategy
• Set design priorities by translating company and product strategy into actionable cross-team design priorities & processes that drive business impact and user satisfaction.
• Build and maintain a Design system with accessible components and governance processes that support product and content needs, and guarantee UX and design consistency across the app.
• Ensure high standard of product design by coaching and mentoring designers to produce high quality output, advocating for best practices in product design and ensuring well thought-out user experiences in an evolving product
• Provide hands-on design support by creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for key initiatives within your product-engineering team.
• Manage a small team of two product designers, providing feedback and guidance to elevate design craft and problem-solving , taking care of career growth and employee life-cycle.
• Provide Accessibility expertise by advocating for best practices, ensuring inclusive and compliant design solutions.

What we value:

• Product Design Expertise : 8+ years of  deep experience in modern UX, UI, and interaction design, with a portfolio showcasing successful design work in complex digital products
• Tech-savvy: Strong grasp of technical possibilities and the ability to challenge teams to go beyond what is obvious  
• Design system expertise: Experience building, maintaining, and evolving a design system
• Accessibility Expertise :  you are familiar with a11y standards and implementation that are compliant and help create inclusive products.
• Team leadership : 2+ years of experience with leading mid to senior level product designers , …