Slate Auto
201 - 500 employees
🚘 Automotive
🏭 Manufacturing
🚗 Transport
Automotive • Manufacturing • Transport
Slate Auto is a manufacturer of a radically simple, highly customizable electric pickup that can be configured as a pickup or fastback SUV. The company sells directly to consumers with an online configurator called the Slate Maker, a reservation model, and an accessories marketplace for swaps and upgrades. Slate Auto emphasizes affordability, practical design, and easy ownership with integrated charging options and third‑party service and charging network partnerships.
Senior Director of Digital Experience Design
🕒 July 31
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Slate Auto
201 - 500 employees
🚘 Automotive
🏭 Manufacturing
🚗 Transport
Automotive • Manufacturing • Transport
Slate Auto is a manufacturer of a radically simple, highly customizable electric pickup that can be configured as a pickup or fastback SUV. The company sells directly to consumers with an online configurator called the Slate Maker, a reservation model, and an accessories marketplace for swaps and upgrades. Slate Auto emphasizes affordability, practical design, and easy ownership with integrated charging options and third‑party service and charging network partnerships.
📋 Description
• Define and drive the design vision for all customer-facing digital touchpoints, including web, mobile, in-vehicle HMI, and future experiences • Translate Slate’s brand and product strategy into cohesive, human-centered digital design • Advocate for customers in roadmap conversations, sprint reviews, and executive discussions • Set and enforce quality standards from early concepts through production delivery • Lead, coach, and grow UI designers, UX designers, and copywriters • Hire to fill capability gaps as Slate scales from pre-launch to post-launch • Build a culture of craft, curiosity, and direct feedback • Develop career paths and growth frameworks for designers • Own and evolve Slate’s digital design system across web and native app surfaces • Scale version-controlled design artifacts, component libraries, and documentation • Improve the design team’s workflow within the agile delivery process • Drive shared tooling, design tokens, and handoff processes • Establish a lightweight UX research practice using user testing, usability reviews, and data-informed iteration • Partner with Product and Software leaders on roadmap prioritization, requirements, and design-engineering tradeoffs • Collaborate with brand, marketing, and vehicle design teams • Partner with the in-vehicle software team on instrument cluster and HMI experiences • Represent design in executive- and board-level conversations
🎯 Requirements
• 15+ years of experience in product design, UX, or UI design for high-volume consumer/customer experiences • At least 7 years in a people leadership role, including managing managers or leads • Strong portfolio showing end-to-end ownership of complex digital products • Experience across strategy, research, interaction design, visual design, and delivery • Deep experience building and maintaining design systems using atomic design principles • Proven product and engineering partnership in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and technical tradeoff conversations • Experience designing for web, native mobile, embedded, or in-vehicle UI • Mastery of Figma and modern prototyping workflows • Experience using GenAI in an agile production environment • Experience establishing team-wide design tooling standards • Experience leading A/B and multivariate testing to improve customer experience • Strong UX research instincts • Excellent communication skills for executive presentations, whiteboard collaboration, and written design rationale • Bachelor’s degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Product Design, Graphic Design, Computer Science, or a related field — or equivalent professional experience • Preferred: background in growth design and/or interaction design • Preferred: experience leading design for new or scaling e-commerce or digital marketplaces • Preferred: working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and component-based front-end frameworks such as MUI or Tailwind • Preferred: master’s degree in HCI, Interaction Design, or a related field • Preferred: experience scaling a design team from early-stage through a major product launch • Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis • Visa sponsorship is not available
🏖️ Benefits
• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life insurance • Disability insurance • Vacation • 401k • Potential eligibility for equity program • Potential eligibility for discretionary annual incentive program • Reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities
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