Head of Product Design

We are a company of people, very paranoid of excellent customer experiences through our products. You are a thoughtful team leader, systems-level design thinker, and visionary - with strong instincts and outstanding intuition informed by user needs and insights. You have a practiced eye for effective design, and are committed to creating elegantly simple user experiences from otherwise complex workflows for both consumer and enterprise industry. 

In this role, you’ll take the time to understand not just the execution side of UX, but also the business aspects of the products we build. You’ll collaborate with leaders in Engineering, and Product Management teams to create innovative experiences across Spotnana product offerings, leveraging your passion for brand, craft, and design quality.

Responsibilities

• Own the UX design for company's core products and services
• Lead creative and holistic thinking across diverse products, platforms, and devices.
• Provide leadership, direction, and mentorship for a team of  Designers
• Deliver a Design vision, along with a plan for evolutionary, iterative updates, that actualize the larger vision over time.
• Be hands-on to execute on the vision with the team of designers.
• Build strong relationships and operating rhythms with leaders inside and outside their core product team to efficiently implement user experiences that are cohesive, inclusive, and well-informed.
• Foster our culture and principles within the group, while setting new standards in executional and operational excellence.
• Be responsible for and effectively advocate for users in a fast-paced, corporate climate, imparting day-to-day design leadership that fosters a shared understanding of the user-centric intersection between design, content, business, and engineering.
  

Qualifications

• Experience owning the design for full products, from inception to success.
• 12+ years of experience in Product Design.
• 4+ years of experience managing design teams.
• Portfolio of UX-focused work samples for web and mobile applications.
• Experience balancing product, development, and user-centered goals to help shape overall product strategy.
• Effectiveness in working across organizational boundaries to define, manage, and prioritize work.
• Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal, and analytical skills; the ability to communicate complex interaction concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.
  

Spotnana strives to offer fair, industry-competitive and equitable compensation. Our approach holistically assesses total compensation, including cash, company equity and comprehensive benefits. Our market-based compensation approach uses data from trusted third party compensation sources to set salary ranges that are thoughtful and consistent with the role, industry, company size, and internal equity of our team. Each employee is paid within the minimum and maximum of their position's compensation range based on their skills, experience, qualifications, and other job-related specifications.
Benefits offered include:

• Equity in the form of stock options which provides partial ownership in the company so you can share in the success of the company as it grows
• Pre-tax and ROTH 401(k) options via Fidelity with up to a 4% company match
• Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical (United Healthcare or Kaiser), dental (Guardian), vision (Guardian), life (Mutual of Omaha), and disability (Mutual of Omaha) effective on your hire date. We cover 100% of your employee premiums and 85% of your eligible dependents
• Pre-tax flexible spending account options for health, dependent care and commuter expenses
• 20 vacation days per year in additional to 10 company holidays, 4 company recharge/wellness days and an end of year company shutdown
• Up to 26 weeks of Parental Leave
• Monthly cell phone/internet stipend
• Additional benefits including access to RocketLawyer's online legal platform, International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership, Pet Insurance through Fetch, Financial Wellness through Origin and SoFi, EAP through Mutual of Omaha, The Calm app through Kaiser, pre-tax parking/transit program and more.