Digital Experience Design Director

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🚗 Michigan – Remote

🚗 Michigan – Remote

💵 $156.6k - $208.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🛍️ E-commerce

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Slate Auto

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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: web, mobile, in-vehicle HMI, and future experiences • Translate Slate’s brand and product strategy into cohesive, human-centered design that feels intentional at every interaction • Ensure design holds a strategic voice at the table — advocating for the customer in roadmap conversations, sprint reviews, and executive discussions • Set and enforce quality standards across your team’s output, from early concepts through production delivery • Lead, coach, and grow a team of UI designers, UX designers, and copywriters focused on digital product experiences • Hire thoughtfully to fill gaps in the team’s capabilities as Slate scales from pre-launch to post-launch and beyond • Build a team culture of craft, curiosity, and direct feedback — one that takes design seriously without taking itself too seriously • Own and evolve Slate’s digital design system so that UI components are consistent, accessible, and reusable across web and native app surfaces • Scale version-controlled design artifacts, component libraries, and documentation that allow designers and engineers to work from a single source of truth • Define and continuously improve the design team’s workflow within our agile delivery process: how design fits into sprint cycles, when to prototype vs. ship, and how to validate decisions quickly • Drive the adoption of shared tooling (Figma, design tokens, handoff processes) and ensure consistency in how design artifacts are created, reviewed, and delivered to engineering • Represent design in executive and board-level conversations — articulating design rationale and strategic intent to senior stakeholders clearly and confidently

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in product design, UX, or UI design for high volume consumer/customer experiences — with at least 5 years in a people leadership role • A strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end ownership of complex digital products: strategy, research, interaction design, visual design, and delivery • Deep experience building and maintaining design systems using atomic design principles — tokens, components, documentation, and governance • Proven ability to work as a true partner with product and engineering — comfortable in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and technical tradeoff conversations • Experience designing for multiple surfaces: web (responsive/adaptive), native mobile (iOS/Android), or embedded or in-vehicle UI • Mastery of Figma and modern prototyping workflows; experience establishing team-wide design tooling standards • Experience leading design optimization efforts through a variety of iterative approaches (A/B and multivariate testing) to improve customer experience • Strong UX research instincts — you know when to run a usability test, when to look at the data, and when to trust your gut • Excellent communication skills: able to present design decisions to executives, collaborate in whiteboard sessions, and write clearly about 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• 401k match • annual bonus • company equity • robust offering of benefit and wellness plans • HSA / FSA