Director of Product Design

Company: HireMinds LLC
Location: Boston
Posted on: June 12, 2021

Job Description:

Director of Product Design

We are forever changing how companies buy and renew SaaS. With over $300+ million in SaaS purchases across 1,000+ suppliers, we are the SaaS buying platform that enables the world's fastest-growing companies to purchase SaaS, without friction and at a fair price. Headquartered in Boston with a second location in Charleston, we are building a team that can take us to the future state of frictionless buying.

Since 2018, we have:

• Managed $300M+ in software spend

• Saved $58M+ for our customers

• Given our customers thousands of hours back to focus on the important parts of their job

And we're just getting started. This is your chance to join as we enter hyper-growth and make a massive impact, forever changing the way people buy and sell B2B SaaS.

We're looking for an energetic design leader who's excited about leading a growing team, but also happy to roll up their sleeves and help with execution. You'll be charged with forming our design culture and vision, mentor and grow the team, and ultimately be responsible for building a product experience that makes buying & selling SaaS simple, friendly, and transparent.

You will:

• Lead overall design of products that improve the customer & supplier experience.
• Hire mentor, and grow the careers of our designers & researchers, and build a strong team culture.
• Push the boundaries of your team's UX/UI/visual execution and explore new ideas.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to define product strategy, vision, roadmaps, and resource allocation.
• Represent your team effectively, substantiate the work and the decisions behind them, and be an advocate for user-centered design.
• Shape and evolve the overall design culture, vision, principles, and process at Vendr.
• Be a player/coach initially - individually lead strategic projects as a designer

You have:

• Have 8+ years in product design and 2+ years of experience leading a team of designers.
• Solid track record of successful product launches in a 2-sided marketplace or SaaS software.
• Proven ability to build effective cross-functional partnerships across product, engineering, data, marketing, sales.
• Strong initiative, comfort with ambiguity, and ability to drive a solid and transparent design process, especially given a remote collaboration environment.
• Outstanding written communication and evangelization skills.
• Thrive in a fast-changing work environment.
• Ideally, you have experience working on marketplace (2-sided) products, have experience working in the SaaS ecosystem and / or have a strong service design background.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

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