Lead Product Designer

Role Overview

• Influence Product Direction: Challenge and influence your team's understanding of problems and opportunities.
• Facilitate collaborative workshops that unlock innovation and drive divergence and convergence to translate strategic goals into tangible product concepts.
• Lead Complex Projects: Manage and lead complex design projects mostly autonomously at the product team level.
• Contribute to Strategy & Vision: Act as a major contributor to your team's roadmap and strategy.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leads to grow your influence on the product vision for your area.
• Excel at System Design: Solve complex system design challenges and proactively evolve components and patterns of the Design System, contributing to and maintaining design pattern libraries.
• Coach for Impact: Provide hands-on coaching and guidance to less experienced designers within your product group, fostering a culture of customer-centered thinking and driving measurable business outcomes.
• Deliver High-Quality Solutions & Influence Shipping: Design simple and elegant interfaces for complex systems.
• Proactively influence and improve the team's process for shipping product, partnering with engineering to uphold implementation quality, make smart trade-offs, and potentially contributing design improvements directly in code.
• Lead Research & Validation: Lead quantitative and qualitative research, including usability studies, competitive analysis, and deep domain research, to ensure our solutions are grounded in deep customer understanding.
• Drive Measurable Business Outcomes: Work with Product Management to define and track metrics for key design initiatives (e.g., adoption, efficiency, retention).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in design or a related field, and 6+ years of related experience;
• OR Master’s degree and 4-6 years of related experience.
• A portfolio that demonstrates excellence in solving complex system design challenges, conceptual design, and interaction design.
• Proven experience designing complex, B2B enterprise applications, including enterprise software, SaaS, PaaS, or on-prem applications.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design processes and methodology and mastery of design principles with a firm understanding of grid systems, typography, and color.
• A self-starter with excellent time management skills and the ability to handle multiple projects with shifting priorities.
• A strong collaborator and communicator, experienced in working with and influencing cross-functional, international teams.
• Proficiency in Figma, Figma Make, Zeplin, and relevant AI-assisted design and prototyping tools.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
• Experience working with cloud, on-prem and hybrid data platforms, or other similar technologies.

Tech Stack

• Cloud

Benefits

• Generous PTO Policy
• Support work life balance with Unplugged Days
• Flexible WFH Policy
• Mental & Physical Wellness programs
• Phone and Internet Reimbursement program
• Access to Continued Career Development
• Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages
• Paid Volunteer Time
• Employee Resource Groups