Director of Product Design

Summary

Join PadSplit as their Director of Design (Product & Marketing) to lead and elevate design efforts across product and marketing, ensuring a seamless user experience. This hybrid role blends hands-on design with strategic leadership, shaping the brand, refining design systems, and mentoring a team. The ideal candidate is a seasoned design leader with a proven track record of building and scaling design teams, delivering exceptional user-centered experiences. This role demands strategic vision and hands-on execution, ensuring alignment across marketing and product design. The successful candidate will be passionate about mentorship, possess a strong collaborative spirit, and champion multi-disciplinary design in a fast-growth environment. They will develop and communicate the design vision, mentor designers, lead design execution, collaborate with cross-functional teams, refine the brand, enhance the design system, advocate for human-centered design, make data-driven decisions, facilitate feedback, and stay updated on industry trends.

Requirements

• 8+ years of design experience, with a demonstrated focus on both product and marketing design
• 3+ years of experience leading and mentoring design teams, showcasing the ability to foster growth and collaboration
• Strong portfolio that highlights a diverse range of design deliverables across product and marketing projects
• Deep expertise in user-centered design principles, methodologies, and research, ensuring the customer voice is central to all initiatives
• Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite, with the flexibility to adapt to additional design, prototyping, and research tools
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, capable of articulating design decisions to stakeholders and cross-functional teams
• Understanding of marketing and product metrics, such as conversion funnels and campaign performance, to align design efforts with business outcomes

Responsibilities

• Develop and communicate the design vision by creating a strategic roadmap that aligns with company goals and user needs
• Mentor and coach designers on their craft, methodology, and career growth, providing feedback and support for ongoing improvement
• Lead design execution for high-priority initiatives in both product (e.g., feature research and UI design) and marketing (e.g., digital campaigns and presentations)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Marketing, Product, and Engineering, to ensure cohesive brand and user experiences
• Refine and evolve PadSplit’s brand identity, ensuring consistency across all touchpoints, from marketing materials to product interfaces
• Enhance the current design system by creating component libraries, style guides, and documentation to support a consistent end-user experience
• Advocate for human-centered design in leadership discussions, promoting the value of qualitative research and customer insights
• Analyze and review user feedback and data to inform design decisions and prioritize feature improvements or new projects
• Facilitate design critiques and feedback sessions, fostering a collaborative and iterative design culture
• Stay updated on industry trends and integrate best practices to keep PadSplit’s design and branding at the forefront of the market

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with marketplaces or real estate industries is a plus, providing valuable context for PadSplit’s mission and operations

Benefits

• Fully remote position
• Competitive compensation package including an equity incentive plan
• National medical, dental, and vision healthcare plans
• Company provided life insurance policy
• Optional accidental insurances, FSA, and DCFSA benefits
• Unlimited paid-time (PTO) policy with eleven (11) company-observed holidays
• 401(k) plan
• Twelve (12) weeks of paid time off for both birth and non-birth parents
• The opportunity to do what you love at a company that is at the forefront of solving the affordable housing crisis
• $150,000 - $180,000 a year