Product Design Lead

About Air

Air is a Creative Ops System for Marketers. Our product automates the mindless tasks that marketers do every day to manage content and unlocks creativity through image recognition, automated versioning, and approval workflows. We launched in March 2021 and have raised $38M+ from world-class venture capital groups including Tiger Global, Headline Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, WndrCo, and Slack Ventures.

The Role

Our Product Design Lead will manage our Design team, increase the delight of our product, and embody the needs of our customers. They will be driving exceptional design outcomes and creating a culture of excellence within the Design team. This role is responsible for managing all of the designers and working with our CEO to refine our product design strategy. This is an important differentiation from previous role in that it is best characterized as driving the function. They will work cross-functionally to prioritize customer feedback and quickly address inefficiencies.

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Prototyping and Visual Design

• Trusted to design strong experiences for highly complex and business-critical initiatives that span across product groups/functional areas.
• Demonstrate exceptional visual design skills, staying up to date with trends, tools, and techniques, and provide guidance to other team members.
• Conduct and report on a broad range of quantitative and qualitative design testing and validation methods to ensure exceptional design quality.
• Utilize your presentation skills to deliver clear and persuasive presentations to various audiences, whether prepared or impromptu.

Management

• Managing our Product Design team— this means being responsibly for the growth and development of all direct reports
• Driving our design culture and process—including any improvements or optimizations
• Leading and maintaining existing rituals, including Design Crit.

Strategy

• Navigate and solve ill-defined problems by guiding the company through highly iterative design, testing, and feedback loops
• Leverage your domain expertise to dig deep into customer needs, providing valuable insights to senior staff and contributing to the business's strategic decisions.
• Work closely with product managers and engineers to establish strong product team collaboration and communication in a remote environment at all stages of product development
• Define the design strategy in partnership with cross-functional teams and contribute to building a culture of design excellence within the organization.
• Identify opportunities to improve practices and processes that span multiple teams, collaborating with relevant parties to drive implementation.

Requirements

• You have 10+ years of experience in product design within a fast-paced, high-growth environment, with a proven track record of leading and developing design teams, ideally in SaaS or technology-driven businesses.
• Leadership in design strategy and execution, with demonstrated success in driving design functions and influencing cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional product experiences.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with experience presenting design concepts, strategy, and research findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to take concepts and ideas to execution and close, embracing both big-picture objectives and following through on details.
• Problem solver; you don’t accept the status quo and are always looking for creative solutions.

Benefits

Our company culture was built around a tireless pursuit to be the best at what we do. We're entrepreneurial and focused: tackling problems head-on without ego. We communicate with empathy. We speak directly, listen thoughtfully, and ask questions. We previously worked out of a cozy warehouse in Brooklyn, but are currently distributed around the globe. This is a remote role.

Air contributes 90% to medical, dental, and vision insurance and 75% to dependent coverage. Employees also have life insurance, disability insurance, and membership to One Medical. We offer a generous work-from-home stipend, professional development reimbursement, and unlimited vacation days. Although we are still early stage, we are always seeking ways to invest in the long-term health, wellness, and continued education of our employees.

At Air, we believe that it takes a diversity of thought, culture, race, sexual orientation, and outlook to build a world-class business. We value unique contributions and welcome people of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to join us at Air.

If based in the US, the compensation range for this role is USD $119,000 to $179,000.

If based in Canada, the compensation range for this role is CAD $134,000 to $200,000.