Niche · 1 week ago
Sr. Director, Product Design
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$197K/yr - $247K/yr
10+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Establish and maintain a compelling design vision for our marketplace and SaaS products, tailored for the unique needs of Gen Z and Gen Alpha users.
Lead, mentor, and grow a lean, high-impact team of Senior Designers and UX Researchers, providing hands-on guidance and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Assess talent rigorously while setting ambitious, clear goals for team members and creating an environment where designers are motivated to achieve their best work.
Actively engage in the design process by providing direction, reviewing work, and making detailed adjustments to ensure high-quality output.
Implement efficient, repeatable design processes that maximize productivity and minimize waste, ensuring our design team operates at peak efficiency in a fast-paced, test-and-learn environment.
Collaborate closely with partners across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Finance, Legal, Operations and Data to align design efforts with broader business goals.
Drive product improvements that lead to measurable impact, ensuring design initiatives are grounded in business needs and outcomes.
Lead the team in designing highly personalized user experiences that adapt to individual user behaviors, preferences, and demographics, leveraging data-driven insights to enhance engagement and retention.
Integrate SEO-driven design principles into the UX/UI strategy, ensuring that user interfaces and content layouts are optimized for search engine visibility without compromising usability or aesthetic appeal.
Lead and support the UX researcher in conducting high-impact user research initiatives. Ensure that research insights are continuously integrated into the design process and that user needs and pain points are central to design decisions.
Confidently present design vision and updates to senior leadership, demonstrating both design expertise and business acumen.
Manage the department’s budget, making strategic decisions to allocate resources effectively across projects.
Qualification
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Required
10+ years of experience in product design, with at least 5 years in a leadership role, ideally within a startup or fast-paced environment.
Proven ability to drive a team to execute and iterate designs quickly, employing a test-and-learn mindset to adapt and improve based on data and user insights.
Expertise in designing for Gen Z and Gen Alpha demographics, with a deep understanding of simplicity as a core design principle.
Strong mentor and team builder, experienced in developing design talent and setting performance goals that align with business objectives.
Assertive, hands-on leader able to drive high-quality design work while staying closely connected to the day-to-day process.
Highly efficient and process-oriented, with a knack for developing streamlined workflows that support a lean design team.
Business-minded approach, with proficiency in numbers and the ability to engage meaningfully with cross-functional stakeholders.
Benefits
Best-in-class 100% paid employee health plan, including vision and dental and supplemental coverage
Flexible Paid Time Off Policy
Stipend that allows you to build your work from home office in a style and function that suits your personal preferences
Parental leave for all employees (12 weeks fully paid) in addition to short term disability for birthing parents
Meaningful 401(k) with employer match
Company
Niche
Niche is modernizing the way students and families choose their best-fit schools and colleges, and how institutions build their future classes.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$44.25MKey Investors
Radian CapitalTim Armstrong
2020-04-29Series C· $35M
2019-02-07Series B· $2M
2018-02-07Series B· $6.6M
Leadership Team
Luke Skurman
CEO
Dylan Bargteil
Software Engineer
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