Director, Product Design - TMS & Private Dining

OpenTable is an industry leader with a passion for helping restaurants thrive. They are seeking a Director of Product Design to lead design for their table management system and private dining teams, managing a global team of designers while collaborating with various departments to enhance user experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Lead design for table management system and private dining teams
• Manage a global team of talented product designers
• Collaborate closely with product managers, engineering, research, data science, design systems, brand design, and more to ensure value delivery to customers
• Oversee design quality and create space for innovation
• Ensure direct reports are challenged and supported along their career growth journey

Requirements:

• You have hands on experience in product design and understand how to establish, implement and maintain impactful, delightful and effective user experiences both through yourself and others
• You have a proven track record in growing designers and design managers, motivating them and helping them achieve their career goals
• You have deep expertise in native apps and web experiences, with a masterful understanding of the nuances and best practices across each platform
• You have exceptional visual design skills
• You have extensive experience in design for B2B or ambiguous spaces
• You are data-driven and consistently utilize data to inform decision making
• You are highly skilled in stakeholder management, and are able to build consensus across multiple disciplines, balancing the needs of our users, our teams, and our business
• You have strong systems-thinking, analytical, problem-solving, and interpretation skills
• You can create and evangelize a vision, and develop comprehensive plans to bring that vision to life through your team
• You're a great storyteller with the ability to create effective verbal and written communication, including the ability to develop and deliver presentations to internal audiences
• You are a critical thinker—when finding yourself in a debate, you can appreciate both sides of an issue while remaining kind and standing by your convictions
• You are highly collaborative and value feedback and input from others
• You continuously value introspection to improve yourself, your team, and your products
• Experience in the restaurant industry and/or a passion for food and dining
• Experience working on dual-market products