Director, Product Design

3 Months ago • 8 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

The Director of Product Design role involves leading a design team, driving projects from ideation to implementation, and ensuring pixel-perfect execution. The candidate will manage designers, conduct user research, create prototypes and wireframes, and collaborate with engineering and product management to execute product plans. They will also be responsible for delivering a UX vision with iterative updates. The ideal candidate will also manage the team to make it happen, and willingness to roll up their sleeves to craft designs.
Must have:
  • Manage a team of designers and deliver strong work on tight schedules
  • Experience working across multiple projects at once
  • Identify and prioritize usage scenarios through customer research and analysis
  • Create wireframes, storyboards, and screen flows
  • Design functional prototypes to prove out interaction models
  • Strong partnership with engineering and product management

Job Details

About Highspot

Highspot is a software product development company and a recognized global leader in the sales enablement category, leveraging cutting-edge AI and GenAI technologies at the core of its robust Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform. Highspot is revolutionizing how millions of individuals work worldwide. Through its AI-powered platform, Highspot drives enterprise transformation to empower sales teams through intelligent content management, training, contextual guidance, customer engagement, meeting intelligence, and actionable analytics. The Highspot platform delivers advanced features tailored to business needs, in a modern design that sales and marketing executives appreciate and is the #1 rated sales enablement platform on G2 Crowd.

While headquartered in Seattle, Highspot has expanded its footprint across America, Canada, the UK, Germany, Australia, and now India, solidifying its presence in the Asia Pacific markets.

About the Role
We are seeking a driven design leader that has that perfect balance of skills to drive the project forward, manage the team to make it happen, and willingness to roll up their sleeves to craft designs. This person is experienced with shepherding designs from initial ideation, through rapid iteration, to pixel-perfect implementation. As a seasoned manager, they will have the opportunity to hire senior designers and craft a team of their own.

This candidate should have a passion for usability, an eye for visual consistency, and a knack for reducing the complex to the bare essentials. He or she is an effective diplomat with strong communication and organization skills who is willing to advocate for the design position in the face of senior balancing points from product management and engineering leadership. “World-class” is the bar and this candidate has the desire to take us there!

Responsibilities

    • Ability to manage a small team of designers to deliver strong work on tight schedules
    • Experience working across multiple projects at once
    • Identify and prioritize usage scenarios through customer research and competitive analysis
    • Analyze user feedback and activity to develop personas
    • Create wireframes, storyboards, and screen flows
    • Design functional prototypes to prove out interaction models
    • Strong partnership with engineering and product management to drive shared vision and execution of product plans
    • Deliver a UX vision, along with a plan for evolutionary, iterative updates, that actualize the larger vision over time

Required Qualifications

    • Degree in human-computer interaction, interaction design, visual design, or equivalent work experience
    • 8+ years of experience designing world-class experiences
    • 4+ years as a manager of multiple designers
    • Expert knowledge of user-centered design principles
    • Demonstrable fluency and expertise with Figma, and industry standard design tools
    • Solid portfolio of work spanning multiple projects
    • Experience with UX for enterprise software products, channels, or marketplaces
    • Experience or interest in creating style guides, pattern libraries, and other design solutions that drive design across large organizations
    • Experience working with agile development teams (agile/scrum/kanban)
    • Willingness to roll up the sleeves and lead by example 
    • Outstanding interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
    • Excellent collaborative skills
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Equal Opportunity Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, citizenship, color, ethnicity, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or invisible disability status, political affiliation, veteran status, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

Did you read the requirements as a checklist and not tick every box? Don't rule yourself out! If this role resonates with you, hit the ‘apply’ button.

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