Director of Product Design

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Bitwarden

πŸ’΅ $185k-$225k
πŸ“Remote - United States

Job highlights

Summary

Join Bitwarden as the Director of Design and lead a team shaping the UI/UX of applications used by millions. As a hands-on leader and individual contributor, you will provide design leadership, define design language, create wireframes and prototypes, and improve user journeys. You'll build a team vision, manage relationships with third-party resources, and conduct performance reviews. This is a fully remote position based in the U.S., reporting to the Founder & CTO. The role requires strong design skills, leadership experience, and a collaborative mindset. Bitwarden offers a competitive salary and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of industry design patterns and trends for web, desktop, and mobile platforms
  • Strong visual UI design skills
  • Experience leading design for consumer product with large user base as well as B2B customers
  • Expertise across the product design lifecycle including user research, user experience and interaction patterns, information architecture, and visual UI design
  • Experience developing design systems within an organization
  • Ability to inspire and provide vision direction
  • Experience building and growing successful teams
  • Management experience from a previous design position
  • Ability to form good relationships with other leaders in the company
  • A strong sense of empathy and the ability to advocate for others
  • Collaborative and adaptable mindset
  • Openness and authenticity combined with excellent communication skills
  • Strength in evaluating the success of Bitwarden in reaching its goals and ensuring each strategic goal is measurable
  • Excellent problem-solving skills – you might not know all the answers, but you know how to find and communicate the solution
  • Excitement and enthusiasm for open source and for better internet security
  • An online portfolio or samples of work demonstrating a range of artifacts developed in creating UI/UX solutions

Responsibilities

  • Provide design leadership across the entire organization
  • Define the design language across Bitwarden products
  • Create low-fidelity wireframes as well as higher fidelity prototypes for product-driven initiatives as well as potential product investments
  • Understand customer journeys and use cases in order to identify design opportunities, provide design feedback, and ultimately improve existing user journeys across all clients and platforms
  • Iterate on code review processes involving design implementations, to enforce correctness and standardization
  • Build a team vision and strategy for the success and growth of Design at Bitwarden
  • With feedback from the team, leadership and external stakeholders, own the process, procedures and decision support for product design and delivery
  • Facilitate and encourage collaboration through team meetings or other communication channels as necessary
  • Conduct one-on-one meetings with direct reports to work on issues, provide and receive feedback and discuss individual professional development goals and opportunities
  • Perform annual or semi-annual performance reviews when required
  • Direct and manage relationships and projects with third party design resources

Preferred Qualifications

Propensity towards leadership and mentoring

Benefits

  • Remote work
  • Professional development opportunities
  • In the United States, the starting base compensation range for this role is $185,000 - $225,000

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