Job Description
Summary
Crypto is looking for a Product Design Lead to drive and lead a group of designers in the Main App division. You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the design direction across multiple products within the app, supporting product designers, collaborating with product managers, and creating a positive environment for your team to deliver high quality design.
Responsibilities:
- Lead 2-3 product designers through design collaboration, feedback, and direction.
- Collaborate with multiple product managers who own different features within the Main App to establish timelines, delivery, and priorities.
- Provide guidance, coaching, and protection to your designers. Creating a positive design environment to foster their growth.
- Designing when you need to communicate an idea, direction or provide additional support.
- Establish, maintain, and update an ideal design process for your team.
- Share your deep expertise and knowledge in design to train the designers around you.
- Run and facilitate user research activities, including 1:1 user interviews, focus groups or usability tests.
- Work with the executive team to understand and apply the big picture vision and direction.
- Present and communicate design direction, decisions, and rationale to other teams.
Requirements:
- Must have extraordinary knowledge of design as a craft, and can contribute a deep skillset to the team.
- Extensive experience designing multiple B2C digital products/services for international audiences.
- A solid portfolio of work that contains examples of design for digital products and services.
- Deep understanding of user-centered design and user experience principles and have a strong creative vision to plan design roadmaps with senior stakeholders.
- Ability to oversee and manage multiple projects and ship quality products at scale.
- Experience with developing and coaching a design team.
- An experienced leader with a strong creative vision that understands business objectives, leadership and is skilled at executing ideas with the product design team.
- Bonus if you have an education or experience in relevant fields like graphic design, finance, or development.
- A portfolio must be provided to be considered
Skills
- Communications Skills
- Leadership
- Product Design
- Team Collaboration
- Team Training and Development