[Hiring] Lead Product Designer @Redfish Recruiting

Role Description

We are looking for a Lead Product Designer who can balance the responsibilities of leading a team while also rolling up his/her sleeves to deliver delightful, visually exciting and seamless user experiences for our students!

• Provide guidance and leadership to assist in making decisions, experimentation and successfully launching features.
• Make the team stronger, both through direct mentorship and leading by example.
• Ensure work across the team is of the highest quality and the implementation accurately reflects the product vision.
• Partner with our product, engineering, and marketing teams to drive our product strategy, product development and the culture around how we build products quickly and effectively.
• Help craft and evolve our visual design language to continuously synchronize UI/UX with the highly dynamic tastes and preferences of our primary demographics - high school and college students.
• Provide the thought leadership to develop the right product strategy.
• Rapidly produce multiple concepts and prototypes; knowing when to apply pixel-perfect attention to detail, and when to make low-fi sketches and prototypes.
• Work within and lead from positions of ambiguity.
• Redesign a full student dashboard experience, incorporating aspects of gamification, social proofing, and conversion touchpoints.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience working on a large scale, multi-modal B2C consumer product (web, mobile, tablet).
• 3+ years experience in managing a small team of 2-3 designers.
• Experience with industry standard design tools; Figma, Sketch, InVision, Framer, Mural, Keynote.
• Experience articulating, negotiating, and refining designs with cross functional teams.
• Compelling portfolio demonstrating strong visual skills as well as deep UX intuition.
• Familiarity with orchestrating, conducting, and analyzing user research.
• Familiarity with funnel metrics, key KPIs and their usage in data-informed design.
• Outstanding organization, prioritization and documentation skills.
• Excellent communication skills; able to drive initiatives with clarity and buy-in from team members.
• An entrepreneurial spirit and results-oriented style is a plus.

Requirements

• Passionate about building incredible consumer products.
• Highly adaptable and have a flexible mindset supported by strong fundamental design skills and intuition.
• Comfortable with ambiguity: if you don't have all the details, you're comfortable moving forward and facing the uncertain because risk and change motivate you to evolve and innovate.
• Goal oriented: you combine vision, mission, and strategy into a cohesive outcome and are comfortable setting stretch goals for you and your team.
• A mix of hands-on collaborative leadership ability, analytical/problem-solving skills, entrepreneurial can-do spirit, and grit.

Benefits

• Work from home, or wherever. We're remote-first!
• Fun, creative and fast-paced working environment.
• Competitive salary with a significant upside in equity.
• Health + dental + vision coverage offered for both employees and their dependents.
• 401k plan.
• Flexible PTO, paid holiday, and leave policies, including paid parental leave for new parents - We want you to take time to relax, recharge, and reset.
• Tons of opportunities for advancement.