Lead Product Designer — Strategy, Craft & Flexible Hours

Usmobile; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Gym reimbursement

Commute reimbursement

Flexible working hours

Professional development stipend

Flexible time off

Cell phone service (up to $100/mo)

Job summary

US Mobile is seeking a Lead Product Designer to head the Product Design organization while remaining an active contributor. This hands-on role defines vision, standards, and operating model for design, mentors designers, and partners with Product, Engineering, Growth, Brand and executive leadership to shape strategy.

You will personally own and deliver key initiatives, setting the bar for craft, systems thinking, and execution, and balance leadership with hands-on design work in a fast-paced,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Product Design, including senior people leadership.
• Experience with consumer-facing technology and a portfolio across strategy and execution.
• Ability to influence roadmap and prioritization at leadership level.
• Strong point of view on design quality backed by research, data and experience.
• Craft-focused with high visual polish and information architecture.
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to bring structure to 0-1 problems.
• Autonomously ship features from 0-1 with high IA, UX, UI, and visuals.
• Strong stakeholder management with executives, PMs, and engineering leads.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the Product Design team, set direction, raise quality, and develop designers.
• Lead the design vision, execution and strategy across all user-facing surfaces.
• Balance leadership with hands-on design work as both the team's leader and senior practitioner.
• Define rituals, review processes, and culture that increase velocity and quality.
• Personally own and ship high-impact product design work.
• Set design direction of the company in close partnership with founder, CEO and Product leadership.

Skills

Product Design

People leadership

User experience

Roadmap influence

Design quality

Research

Visual design

Strategic thinking

Product delivery

Stakeholder mgmt

Job description

US Mobile is seeking a Lead Product Designer to head the Product Design organization while remaining an active contributor. This hands-on role defines vision, standards, and operating model for design, mentors designers, and partners with Product, Engineering, Growth, Brand and executive leadership to shape strategy.

You will personally own and deliver key initiatives, setting the bar for craft, systems thinking, and execution, and balance leadership with hands-on design work in a fast-paced,