About the company
Our client is a software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the design direction of a major product area, leading complex work from early research and concept sketches through polished, shipped interfaces. Set craft standards for a team of designers, mentor others and align closely with engineers, researchers and product leaders.
What you'll do
- Set the long-term direction and near-term plans for a product area with cross-functional leadership.
- Lead design of complex, high-impact features from early research and wireframes through high-fidelity prototypes and quality review.
- Build reusable design frameworks and patterns that keep many products feeling like one coherent system.
- Work with user research to turn real user pain points into clear product decisions.
- Take part in design reviews, mentor designers and push for a high standard of craft.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 8+ years of professional product design experience.
- Several years of experience launching intricate software in sectors where expectations are high.
- Samples of intricate, high-consequence browser-based work for business customers.
- Hands-on individual contributor design work within the last 2+ years.
- Time spent both at major technology employers and at companies in their scaling phase, working on products used at large volume.
- Ability to simplify messy, ambiguous problems into clear, buildable specifications.
- Solid understanding of technical constraints and a habit of working closely with engineers.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills across teams and levels of an organization.
- Multiple promotions within a single company.
- Work samples that display excellent visual polish and interaction design that is attractive yet practical.
- A self-starter who moves quickly in a fast-paced environment.
Bonus points
- Prior work on intricate products in demanding business categories such as finance tools, software-as-a-service or enterprise platforms.
- Degree from a major design school.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: $165K to $289K per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- Hybrid, in New York, San Francisco or Seattle
- Full-time
- New York, New York, United States
- San Francisco, California, United States
- South Bay Area, United States
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Seattle, Washington, United States
- Texas, United States
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Denver, Colorado, United States
- Florida, United States
- Minnesota, United States
- Sacramento, California, United States