Clutch is hiring a
Design Team Manager in United States

Summary

The job is for a Player-Coach Design Manager at Clutch, a fintech company backed by Andreessen Horowitz. The role involves managing the product design team, crafting end-to-end journeys, driving the creation of the design system, and maintaining a culture of design excellence.

Requirements

• At Least 7 years of product design experience, including 1-2 years leading designers in a non-agency role
• A portfolio of high-quality work that shows your experience designing elegant and visually engaging solutions to complex problems that directly solve user needs
• A proven track record as a craftsperson and ability to teach others. The team should be able to look up to you and respect you
• Breadth of design experience whether its visual or interaction or navigation design. You love designing for the entire product process from strategy to pixel—and can demonstrate a range of skills from high-level flows to detailed interactions
• Ability to embrace ambiguous situations as opportunities to add clarity. Mastery in solving unstructured problems that have many dependencies
• Exceptional problem-solving skills, with an ability to articulate simple direction for complex challenges
• Bar Raiser: Ability to uplevel direct reports and raise the bar for design quality within an organization
• Balance an iterative approach and urgency to solve customer pain with ensuring that short term improvements ladder up to long-term vision and meet a high bar for the user experience
• Deep curiosity and interest about fintech
• Adaptability in a fast-paced startup environment, comfortable with juggling multiple products and orchestrating the direction
• Experience collaborating with product managers, engineers and GTM teams when needed

Responsibilities

• Manage designers and design work
• Lead and expand the product design team that consistently delivers impactful human-centered experiences that meet user needs and business goals
• Manage resource allocation, and project prioritization, and cultivate a culture of design excellence
• Mentor team members, helping them grow their skills and career paths, while maintaining high design standards and practices
• Craft the end-to-end journeys and develop principles that can be used to help align our teams on the right experiences
• Drive the creation of our design system, ensuring it supports efficient and effective design and development processes
• Balance long-term vision with short-term objectives, making strategic decisions on design priorities and trade-offs
• Strategize and oversee the design process, ensuring seamless integration of user research, wireframing, prototyping, and high-fidelity designs into the product development lifecycle
• Run and improve team processes like design critiques and design jams
• Actively participate in the design process, from concept to execution, including user research, wireframing, prototyping, visual design, and user testing
• Partner with Product and Engineering leads in this area to improve design processes and execution
• Lead with a deep curiosity for the business and human behavior translating to delightful experiences
• Communicate design direction, trade offs made, design rationale to accelerate alignment and enthusiasm across the company

Benefits

• 2 amazing off-sites/year with the entire company
• Flexible PTO
• Stock Options
• Budget for Home Office Setup
• Budget for Work trips
• Full-remote job