Remote Lead Product Designer, Product Led Growth

Summary

Join Outdoorsy, a leading outdoor travel ecosystem, as a Senior Product Designer to ideate, design, and deploy exceptional customer experiences. With a proven history of creating great product experiences, you'll lead projects, present designs, and partner with teams to drive innovation and design thinking.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years experience in a senior individual contributor role, designing, building, and shipping high-quality mobile and web and mobile applications
• Experience designing for a two-sided Marketplace like Outdoorsy
• Great taste and a keen eye for interaction and visual design
• Experience working in a pillar/squad model: partnering with Product, Engineering, and Marketing to craft large-scale product outcomes
• Excellent communication in speaking and writing, an engaging presentation style, and strong visual storytelling
• You have a strong understanding of the Human Centered Design process; how to lead it and teach others
• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to build strong data-driven arguments, prioritized with business strategy in mind
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to understand the constraints of a design problem and identify the tradeoffs
• Ability to balance long-term and short-term to meet the constraints of a continuous release process while iterating toward a future vision
• Experience contributing to design systems. We use Figma, Zeroheight, Github, and Storybook
• A strong portfolio across multiple devices and platforms that highlight your approach to problem-solving, as well as the solutions themselves
• Case studies should demonstrate your proactive skills in research, user experience, visual design, and interaction design
• Proficiency with designing, prototyping, and development handoff in Figma
• Understanding of basic front-end languages. You know the constraints of developing for multiple devices and how to create a unified experience across them
• Design experience within a marketplace or online travel agencies is preferred with a mobile-first mentality
• Demonstrated portfolio of shipping amazing customer experiences that made a significant impact on business and customer metrics
• Experience building products in a remote or distributed team environment

Responsibilities

• Ideate, design, and deploy the future of Outdoory’s end-to-end customer experience
• Present and defend your vision and rationale behind all design decisions to stakeholders and your team
• Lead your own and/or participate in user research, gather insights, and translate findings into actionable design solutions
• Maintain exceptional execution and refinement, establishing a standard of design excellence for the team
• Express your ideas by delivering models, information architecture, flows, wireframes, low and high-fidelity mock-ups, and other design deliverables including clickable/animated prototypes
• Partner with our Growth Squad to use a variety of testing methods to gather qualitative and quantitative data, to identify common pain points, feature enhancements, or new products
• Make the unknowns known by leading grassroots research initiatives to inform design decisions
• Partner closely with Marketing (Brand and Creative) to ensure designs are on-brand and are in alignment with marketing objectives
• Engage with the content team early to help craft a successful go-to-market strategy
• Contribute to the success of other designers. Provide feedback and direction on their work while maintaining your own portfolio of work. Be hands-on and lead by example
• Drive innovation and design thinking, ensuring that all design initiatives are optimized for actionable outcomes
• Contribute to our Bonfire design systems to ensure brand consistency and scalability across products
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and design trends, like how to deploy AI, and integrate innovative solutions into digital strategies

Benefits

• Opportunity to help build a company from an early stage
• Competitive salary
• Equity in one of the world's fastest-growing companies
• Comprehensive health and welfare benefits
• 401(k) Match
• Flexible PTO