Director, Product Design

Smartsheet; Bellevue (WA); Remote; USD 205,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Director of Product Design to lead a talented team in shaping the future of user experiences. This role involves defining user experience strategies, mentoring designers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure innovative and engaging product designs. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in UX, a passion for design, and the ability to drive quality and efficiency. Join a forward-thinking company that values collaboration and creativity, and help empower users to achieve more through exceptional design.

Benefits

100% employer-paid medical/vision/dental coverage

Equity - Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

Employee Stock Purchase Program

401k Match

Monthly stipend for work support

Life insurance and disability plans

12 paid holidays per year

Up to 24 weeks of Parental Leave

Personal paid Volunteer Day

Access to LinkedIn Learning courses

Qualifications

• 12+ years experience in cross-functional roles managing strategic projects.
• 6+ years leading UX teams with a focus on mentoring and development.

Responsibilities

• Establish and articulate a vision for the future of design.
• Define user experience strategy and manage UX designers' activities.
• Collaborate with product teams to launch new features based on user needs.

Skills

User Experience (UX)

Design Thinking

Mentoring

Agile Methodologies

Visual Design

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Design or related field

Master's Degree in Design or related field

Tools

Figma

Creative Cloud

Prototyping Tools

Job description

At Smartsheet, our purpose is to empower everyone to achieve more. As a member of the Experience Design team, you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of work, making our category-leading work execution platform valuable, intuitive, elegant, and engaging.

As the Director of Product Design, you will lead and grow a diverse and talented team of Product Designers in applying principles of design thinking to conceptualize engaging and personalized user experiences for our web and mobile apps. You have a solid history of making the people around you better. You drive quality and efficiency by establishing processes, developing talent, and leveraging your own expertise and experience to help coach your team to accomplish more than they might have without you. You see yourself as a team captain more than a coach.

You are skilled at scaling your influence and abilities. You love to collaborate with designers, user researchers, engineers, product managers, executives, and inspire them to do their best. You thrive on working well with others… and getting things done. You will represent the end user and evangelize human-centered methodologies across the product team to ensure innovative designs that truly meet people’s needs from first-time users to seasoned experts.

You will report to our Sr. Director of Product Design located in our Bellevue, WA office, or you may work remotely from anywhere in the US where Smartsheet is a registered employer.

You Will:

• 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.

You Have:

• 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.
• 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:

• HSA, 100% employer-paid premiums, or buy-up medical/vision and dental coverage options for full-time employees.
• Equity - Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) for eligible roles.
• Lucrative Employee Stock Purchase Program (15% discount).
• 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.
• 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 LinkedIn Learning 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).

Smartsheet provides a competitive base salary range for roles that may be hired in different geographic areas we are licensed to operate our business from. Actual compensation is determined by several factors including, but not limited to, level of professional, educational experience, skills, and specific candidate location. In addition, this role will be eligible for a market competitive incentive opportunity and some roles may be eligible for a RSU stock grant upon accepted offer. California & New York: $221,400 to $297,000 | All other US States: $205,000 to $275,000.

Get to Know Us:

At Smartsheet, we’ve created a place where everyone is welcome — people from all over the world, all backgrounds, all ages, all colors, and all beliefs working side by side. Here, everyone can make a difference and empower others to do the same. You’re encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn’t precisely match our job description—if your career path has been nontraditional, that will set you apart. At Smartsheet, we empower everyone, everywhere to change the way the world works—join us.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Smartsheet is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment with the best employees. We provide employment opportunities without regard to any legally protected status in accordance with applicable laws in the US, UK, Australia, Japan, Costa Rica, and Germany. If there are preparations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.

About the company

Smartsheet provides businesses with collaboration software & solutions to create team efficiency, effectiveness and scale. A platform for dynamic work & Enterprise Achievement.