They empower their users to compose elegant, professional videos without requiring expert knowledge. You’ll be helping envision and create the next iterations of their dynamic SaaS video creation tool, enabling novice users to creative powerful visual stories from scratch, utilizing intuitive drag-and-drop features, templates, and storyboards. Whether the user is a small business, marketing department, or individual consumer, this cross-platform (web, mobile, tablet) suite of products puts easy-to-use creative tools into novice users’ hands to quickly and effectively communicate through video.
Their studio in downtown Manhattan is airy, roomy and inspires collaboration and creativity, with fully stocked kitchen, large video viewing area, and playfully themed conference rooms – their commitment to their thoughtful culture is evident throughout their space and style. You’ll be empowered to mentor, manage, and grow their team of 10+ designers (UX design and research, UI, motion, and possibly marketing, if that’s of interest), and to re-envision the design thinking and process in collaboration with company leadership.
What you’ll do:
– Define and drive the UX and product design vision and strategy across their ecosystem of web, mobile and tablet products
– Collaborate with product and engineering leaders throughout the company
– Head up their 10 person design team (and growing) in all their diverse design glory: UX (including design and research), UI, video/motion, and (possibly) marketing designers
– Establish / refine design thinking and process improvements throughout the company culture
– Evolve design process in collaboration with product and dev leadership
What you’ve done / requirements:
– You have 2+ years min experience as a design leader at a consumer digital product company (both mobile and web), with a rapidly moving iterative design approach, and 5-7+ years overall experience working at product-side companies
– You’ve taken a new consumer product to market
– Strong background in UX
– Experience growing a design team; hiring, firing, mentoring and managing a team of at least 8 direct reports.
– You have utilized diverse product development lifecycle methodologies, have a POV on what works where, and know how to tailor different approaches to different organizations (not a “one-size-fits-all” approach)
– You’re a “player coach” – you’re an astute manager and delegator, but have formidable UX / product design chops and can dive into the details as needed
– Preferably, you’ve got a proven track record of attracting design talent – you ideally have a public profile, speak at conferences, blog, etc – you have a bit of a following / reputation in the field – or, you’re on your way / this appeals to you!
Like-to haves:
– Start-up experience strongly preferred, brand/marketing exposure a plus but definitely not required
– Love of video and/or photography a definite +
joanne (at) joanneweavergroup (dot) com
