Head of Product Design

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Requirements:

• You have proven experience (5+ years) in a leadership position with people management and development responsibilities where you have yourself been on a growth journey
• You are a visionary and creative design professional who cares about all aspects of the user experience
• You are comfortable working within and leading a team through situations of high ambiguity with competing priorities
• You are action-oriented and can help others to break big challenges down into manageable and actionable pieces
• You are passionate about product design and its role in providing users with life-enriching product experiences
• You have experience creating and evolving design systems in a way that facilitates and enhances product design and development without being overly bureaucratic

Responsibilities:

• Create a vision and roadmap for bringing the brand mission and visual style to life across the entire product experience
• Set and uphold the quality bar for Product Design across all Feeld products, in-line with brand strategy, brand identity and brand values.
• Lead and support the product designers as their People Coach offering day-to-day direction, guidance, mentoring and coaching to enable them to do their best work and achieve their individual developmental goals.
• Define and maintain Product Design principles and ways of working that are in-line with the wider Product Circle principles and ways of working to ensure a Product Design practice that is scaleable and future proof.
• Work closely with analytics and user research to define and lead discovery and ideation processes across all product teams right through to testing and iteration.
• Be a thought-partner to the VP of Product, inputting into Product strategy and tactical initiatives by demonstrating ability to make sound design decisions that uphold design quality and customer experience whilst staying accountable to business needs and goals.
• Manage the team to consistently deliver tested, validated and ready-to-build designs that delight the community and address business goals.
• Frequently demonstrate hands-on product design skills where required, whether working together with the team or independently, to achieve responsibilities at the quality required.