Director of Product Design

• Experience

  • 10 + years of experience

  • Diverse experiences of company and products from 0-1 starting a product to scaling

    • Consumer Product, as must

    • Start up or early stage company at some point during career

  • Has a portfolio or work from their past experiences or teams they lead

  • B2B2C would be great (i.e. marketplaces)

  • Familiar with experimentation A/B Testing and iterated through a product

  • Worked with PM, Eng, research and copywriting, ux writing, or content design

  • Impact and results driven

  • Degree: Can be in graphic design, HCI, Computer Science, Psychology or self taught (with additional years of experience)

• Craft

  • Has a strong eye for visual design, interaction and understanding user needs

  • Has a high bar for design quality and the craftsmanship

  • Has the ability to design, if absolutely necessary

  • Has experience working with or creating a design system

• Management and Leadership

  • Managed managers

  • Experiences of managing multiple projects at the same time

  • Know how to balance business and user needs

  • Has hired and built out teams

  • Ability to influence and negotiate with product partners

  • Ability to coach and mentor talent 

• Strategy and Planning

  • Has the ability to size, plan projects set priorities for the team

  • Has a strong sense for product design process

Not looking for (Can have done it, but is not the primary experience)

• Marketing, brand design only

• B2B only

• Agency only