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Product Design Director - Developer

The Opportunity

As a Product Design Director in our Developer group, you’ll play a critical role in leading design, strategy and vision across different product verticals within a highly technical space that defines experiences for our platform of developer tools and services. You will own end-to-end design processes for our Core Studio application framework and Developer tools working collaboratively with designers, product managers, and developers to define new workflows and tooling in our app, and improve existing ones.

You’ll manage resources across product teams and multi-disciplinary design efforts such as visual and design systems. You’ll partner with product group leaders to define strategy and vision. Most importantly, you’ll make an impact that sparks imagination and enables creativity in the minds of users around the world at a time of incredible growth for our business.

In this role, you’ll be actively involved in defining UX strategy, future vision, goals, success metrics, roadmap, and resource allocation. Promoting a device-agnostic, systematic approach to crafting our customer experiences.

Lastly, you’ll be leading projects and designing features, creating experiences for our developers that enables them to create what ever the heart and mind imagines. Leveraging your leadership and management experience, you’ll guide the team to ideate, create, and refine workflows and patterns for our developer platform of tools and services to make our product experience delightful to use. As a manager, you’ll eagerly seek and give help and transparency tops your list of values.

You Are:

• Experienced with 10+ years of professional work experience in a design leadership and/or management capacity with a Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Ergonomics, or equivalent work experience
• Practiced in designing for highly technical domains, such as productivity tools, developer tools or designing for large-scale platforms, and complex software applications
• A people manager who will grow a team of product designers and managers by setting crisp goals, evolving our design practice, building team culture, and a leader who guides the team to best possible solution
• A Leader who thrives on cross-functional collaboration, and actively works to improve the people, product, and process on your team and beyond.
• Collaborative and must excel in communicating with engineers, product managers and executives
• Well versed in the development lifecycle, can navigate complex engineering environments and identify dependencies across feature areas
• Self-Organized with your time and work, and seek out resources to accomplish projects.
• Excellent Communicator of design work and your rationale behind proposals. You can communicate complex ideas to the team and stakeholders.
• A Problem Solver who possess a highly-tuned thought process that yields creative solutions to big challenges
• A Cross-Functional Expert who will use your leadership methodologies, and design skills to bring a user-centered point of view to growth and consumer-focused initiatives.
• Collaborative and excited about building relationships with other teams in the company, including Engineering, Marketing, and Product Management
• Driven and is constantly building upon expertise with various tools, platforms and methodologies

You Will:

• Understand, leverage and extend our design system to deliver a consistent and rich app experience.
• Collaborate deeply with the development side and craft technically mindful experiences.
• Apply existing experience and interaction patterns, also developing new ones based on user needs.
• Collaborate closely with Design and Product leadership to define your features and contribute to the overall direction of your product area.
• Ideate, create, and document user flows and patterns in the app experience to make our products delightful to our users, and clear to our development team.
• Work extremely closely with Engineering to ensure a high-quality and user experience.