Director, Product Design

🕒 February 25

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $235k - $275k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

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Smartsheet

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2005

☁️ SaaS

⚡ Productivity

🤝 B2B

SaaS • Productivity • B2B

Smartsheet is a platform designed to manage projects, automate workflows, and build solutions at scale. It offers a wide range of features including automation, team collaboration, dashboards and reporting, and integrations, allowing businesses to streamline their operations. The platform caters to diverse use cases such as project management, IT portfolio management, marketing management, and more, serving various industries including government, finance, and healthcare. Smartsheet also emphasizes security and data protection, ensuring users' data privacy. Additionally, it offers professional services like consulting, training, and implementation support to maximize the platform's capabilities.

📋 Description

• Help establish, drive and articulate a vision for the future of design at Smartsheet. • Define the user experience strategy and vision for your areas of oversight. • Establish goals and target metrics that design decisions can be mapped to. • Manage the day-to-day and strategic activities of UX designers, making sure that the human-centered process is properly planned and followed. • Build, evolve and scale UX processes, standards, and tools. • Mentor and coach UX designers in a motivating and supportive manner and keep the team on top of emerging UX techniques and tools. • Develop career paths and programs tailored to individual team member professional development. • Gain a deep understanding of user needs and goals and communicate them to cross functional product teams. • Create alignment with other groups within the company by working collaboratively with product teams to launch new features and evolve existing ones based on an understanding of user needs, business objectives and technical constraints. • Translate business goals into innovative, creative and engaging product experiences. • Support other duties.

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in a highly cross-functional role running strategic projects from idea through implementation. • 6+ years leading & mentoring UX teams, manager of managers a plus. • Successful experience leading a large team of designers (10+). • Examples of broadly influential UX work that contributed directly to the achievement of business goals. • Experience designing for enterprise SaaS platforms. • Passion for the field of User Experience. Self motivated and enthusiastic; knows when it's necessary to seek out guidance. • Experience facilitating activities to gather insights on user needs and goals and conducting usability testing. • Experience finding simple, innovative solutions for complex problems. • Experience with Agile methodologies. • Strong visual design skills and sensibilities. • Expert in Figma, Creative Cloud or other visual design, wireframing, and prototyping tools. Proficiency in rapid prototyping. • Highly organized with planning, conducting, and tracking work. • Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills; ability to work successfully with teams across the organization, including Product Management and Engineering. • Ability to articulate design decisions and advocate for the user.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical/vision and dental coverage options for full-time employees • 401k Match to help you save for your future (50% of your contribution up to the first 6% of your eligible pay) • Monthly stipend to support your work and productivity • Flexible Time Away Program, plus Sick Time Off • US employees are automatically covered under Smartsheet-sponsored life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability plans • US employees receive 12 paid holidays per year • Up to 24 weeks of Parental Leave • Personal paid Volunteer Day to support our community • Opportunities for professional growth and development including access to Udemy online courses • Company Funded Perks, including a counseling membership, local retail discounts, and your own personal Smartsheet account • Teleworking options from any registered location in the U.S. (role specific)