Product Design Director

Summary

Join Lattice as their Director of Product Design and lead a team of Product Designers. You will own the design strategy for a portfolio of HRIS products, developing the design culture within a growing product area. This role involves scaling the Product Design team, coaching team members, and partnering with Research, Engineering, and Customer Experience to establish a multi-year vision and strategy. You will also collaborate with organizational leadership to ensure platform development on common primitives. The ideal candidate possesses 7+ years of progressive experience in Product Design, including 4+ years managing designers, and a strong portfolio showcasing high-quality work. This position reports to the VP of Product Design and offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive experience in Product Design
• 4+ years experience managing Designers
• A very high craft bar, with a portfolio to prove it
• Experience going deep on multiple complex product areas at once
• The ability to give design feedback even when you do not have deep product knowledge
• High energy around shaping and evolving design and product development culture, in collaboration with fellow design management and the rest of the design team
• Examples of taking accountability for all the products and design work you oversee
• A history of partnering successfully with associated practices, including, User Research, UX Writing, Brand Design, and Design Systems
• The ability to communicate design's potential impact on business outcomes
• Deep partnership with Research to identify UX opportunities, then work cross-functionally to influence strategy at the product and platform level
• Mastery in solving unstructured problems that have many dependencies and may have lengthy timelines
• The ability to define and communicate clear expectations for excellence, then chart a course at the product and platform level

Responsibilities

• Own the design strategy for a portfolio of products across our HRIS
• Develop the design culture on a growing and critical product area
• Help reimagine the experience of enterprise software and build highly leveraged products that enable companies to onboard and service their employee-bases
• Help to scale the Product Design team, its culture, and its operations
• Support, coach, and help grow the team’s members into the next generation of design leadership at Lattice
• Partner with Research, Engineering, and Customer Experience to establish a multi-year vision and strategy for your portfolio of products that result in end-user experiences that redefine what people expect from their HRIS
• Set new levels of excellence for craft and execution, and chart a course for your team to get there
• Partner with leadership across our organization to ensure we are developing our platform on common primitives with high degrees of product interoperability

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with multi-product, B2B SaaS applications
• Is a compelling and confident storyteller
• Has outstanding written and verbal communication skills with a talent for succinctly articulating customer challenges and enumerating tradeoffs
• Effectively organizes and lead discussions/rituals that build relationships, facilitate better collaboration, and ultimately improve the product and team culture

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance
• Emergency Weather Support
• Wellness Apps
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Time off inclusive of holidays and sick time
• Commuter & Parking Accounts
• Lunches in the Office
• Workplace Amenities Stipend
• Internet and Phone Stipend
• One time WFH Office Set-Up Stipend
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Financial Planning
• Learning & Development Budget
• Sabbatical Program
• Invest in Your People Fund
• Incentive stock options