Remote Director Product Design

Summary

Join Bugcrowd, a security and data company, as we seek an experienced Director, Product Design to build compelling end-to-end experiences for our users. The ideal candidate will have 6+ years of experience as a product designer, with expertise in design tooling, front-end frameworks, and user research.

Requirements

• 6+ years experience as a product designer
• 2+ years of experience in coaching, mentoring, and developing other team members
• Fluent in design tooling such as Adobe Suite, Sketch, Figma, Invision, etc
• Experience with one or more front end frameworks (Bootstrap, Foundation Zurb, etc.)
• Experience using a Design system approach in order to build delightful and scalable solutions
• Have shipped impactful products with great design
• SaaS experience preferred
• Excellent oral and written communication skills to justify design choices and business value to cross functional teams, including Sales, Marketing, and Operational team members
• Organized and able to manage competing priorities
• Can build robust project foundations in collaboration with other stakeholders in a multidisciplinary environment
• Adept at quick prototyping and iterating, including sketches, wireframes, and flow diagrams to communicate ideas collaboratively, with the goal to incorporate new customer insights and scope changes as limitations arise
• Able to adapt and iterate designs based on new user insights, scope changes, or technical limitations
• Experience with Git / Github for source control and Agile software development
• Strong experience designing for the web as a medium
• Experienced in User Research

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of new experiences at the cutting edge of data and cybersecurity
• Facilitate partnership between Product Managers, Engineering, and other internal teams to define project goals, map out user journeys, iterate on the capabilities, and launch new products and services that benefit thousands of customers and security experts
• Meet regularly with your counterparts in order to understand project requirements, get design feedback, and plan out work for the next few sprints based on roadmap and dependencies
• Be a champion for the user in the product roadmap planning process
• Design artifacts that provide the correct level of detail for the step in the process - be it conceptual mockups, presentations, or hi-fidelity mockups that are ready for Engineering to execute on
• Work on the Design System and build components to help scale a data-driven user experience. Our Design system can be found here: https://bugcrowd.design
• Able to build out the information architecture for any capability in the context of the existing product, but with the future in mind
• Mentor junior designers on the team

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiar with Ruby on Rails and React (our product), Javascript, semantic HTML, CSS
• Worked on data driven workflows