Search - Design Lead

Referral Board; United States; Remote; USD 199,000 - 316,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Director of UX, where you'll simplify complex user experiences and lead a talented UX team. This exciting role offers the chance to shape product experiences that impact billions of users globally. You will collaborate closely with product management and engineering, driving initiatives that enhance user value. With a focus on mentorship and team growth, you will help establish best practices and improve collaboration across teams. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in a pivotal stage of product development while enjoying a flexible work environment and generous benefits.

Benefits

Health Coverage

Flexible Work Locations

Generous Vacation Days

Donation Matching

Volunteer Hours

Parental Leave

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in UX design and management.
• Proven ability to drive vision and strategy in UX.

Responsibilities

• Lead the UX team to deliver user-centric product experiences.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering teams.

Skills

Communication Skills

UX Design

User Research

Analytical Skills

Team Management

Data-Driven Decision Making

Technical Knowledge

Creativity

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Design or related field

Master's Degree (Bonus)

Tools

Figma

AB Testing Tools

Job description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

Do you love simplifying complex experiences while applying both your analytic and creative skills? We’re looking for a Director of UX to lead our search experience and UX team. Elastic has the most widely deployed search solution, built on the proven ELK Stack to converge metrics, logs, and traces, delivering unified visibility and actionable insights. Your work will help developers, managers, executives, among others, to improve the performance, security and reliability of products and services used by billions of end-users globally.

It’s a great time to join the team; you’ll have a unique opportunity to drive impact and shape the product experience during a pivotal stage. You’ll apply your pragmatic big-picture abilities and partner with product management and engineering to deliver critical initiatives. You’ll nurture your team to grow and effectively deliver value to our users. You’ll be a key member of our leadership team, contributing to the development of our large cross-functional UX team and vision.

What You Will Be Doing

• Apply your design, research, product, and technical know-how to lead a vision-led product experience.
• Collaborate with product management and engineering to plan and deliver user experiences that deliver user value and are competitively aware.
• Help drive business objectives, establish and improve user metrics.
• Apply a data informed and user-centric approach to identify UX opportunities and validate solutions.
• Nurture your team’s learning and growth with career mentorship, coaching, and development activities.
• Ensure team visibility and success record of measurable outcomes.
• Improve collaboration, standard methodologies, and ways-of-working across search teams to drive an integrated and user-focused product experience.
• Manage multiple priorities and provide impactful focus for your team.
• Work closely and iteratively with UX research and writing teams over the course of projects.
• Partner with the platform team and support our design system.
• Work closely with UX leadership peers to help grow the overall UX org and the quality of our end-to-end experience.
• Build relationships with myriad team members across the larger business to assure connectedness to the big picture.

What You Bring

• Excellent verbal and written communicator, able to present, pitch ideas and convey design rationales.
• Previous hands-on experience as a designer, researcher, or similar UX craft.
• Proven track record of driving a vision and strategy.
• Experienced manager of designers with 5+ years of direct-line people management.
• Experience conducting user research, working with AB tests and analytics tools.
• Experience working with rich data interfaces or a highly technical product.
• Familiarity with Figma and other design tools.
• Passion for learning and self development.
• Connectedness to design and technology trends.
• You are an organised self-starter with strong communication and previous experience working in a remote environment.
• Examples of past leadership experience you can share.
• Experience working in SaaS or enterprise software (bonus).
• Experience working in GenAI or other Search-like companies (bonus).
• A portfolio that showcases design solutions per your leadership (bonus).

Compensation

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component. The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below.

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

$199,700 - $315,900 USD

The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is:

$239,800 - $379,300 USD

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous number of vacation days each year.
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love.
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email [e-mail] We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

Elasticsearch develops and distributes encryption software and technology that is subject to U.S. export controls and licensing requirements for individuals who are located in or are nationals of the following sanctioned countries and regions: Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”), and the Luhansk People’s Republic (“LNR”). If you are located in or are a national of one of the listed countries or regions, an export license may be required as a condition of your employment in this role. Please note that national origin and/or nationality do not affect eligibility for employment with Elastic.

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