Smartsheet: Director, Product Design

For over 20 years, Smartsheet has helped individuals and groups obtain–properly, something. From seamless work administration to sensible, scalable options, we’ve at all times labored with circulate. We’re constructing instruments that empower groups to automate the handbook, uncover insights, and scale smarter. However greater than that, we’re creating house– house to suppose massive, take motion, and unlock the sort of work that really issues. As a result of when problem meets objective, and keenness turns into progress, that’s magic at work, and it’s what we present up for on a regular basis.

At Smartsheet, our objective is to empower everybody to attain extra. As a member of the Expertise Design workforce, you may have the chance to form the way forward for work, making our category-leading work execution platform precious, intuitive, elegant, and fascinating. 

Because the Director of Product Design, you’ll lead and develop a various and gifted workforce of Product Designers in making use of ideas of design considering to conceptualize partaking and customized person experiences for our net and cell apps. You might have a strong historical past of constructing the individuals round you higher. You drive high quality and effectivity by establishing processes, creating expertise, and leveraging your personal experience and expertise to assist coach your workforce to perform greater than they could have with out you. You see your self as a workforce captain greater than a coach. 

You’re expert at scaling your affect and talents. You like to collaborate with designers, person researchers, engineers, product managers, executives, and encourage them to do their finest. You thrive on working properly with others… and getting issues performed. You’ll symbolize the tip person and evangelize human-centered methodologies throughout the product workforce to make sure progressive designs that really meet individuals’s wants from first-time customers to seasoned specialists. 

You’ll report back to our VP of Product Design situated in our Bellevue, WA workplace. You might select to work from our Edinburgh or London places of work, or it’s possible you’ll select to work remotely from wherever within the UK.

You Will:

• Assist set up, drive and articulate a imaginative and prescient for the way forward for design at Smartsheet.
• Outline the person expertise technique and imaginative and prescient to your areas of oversight.
• Set up targets and goal metrics that design selections may be mapped to.
• Handle the day-to-day and strategic actions of UX designers, ensuring that the human-centered course of is correctly deliberate and adopted.
• Construct, evolve and scale UX processes, requirements, and instruments.
• Mentor and coach UX designers in a motivating and supportive method and preserve the workforce on prime of rising UX methods and instruments.
• Develop profession paths and packages tailor-made to particular person workforce member skilled growth.
• Achieve a deep understanding of person wants and targets and talk them to cross useful product groups.
• Create alignment with different teams throughout the firm by working collaboratively with product groups to launch new options and evolve present ones primarily based on an understanding of person wants, enterprise goals and technical constraints.
• Translate enterprise targets into progressive, inventive and fascinating product experiences.
• Help different duties.

You Have:

• 12+ years of expertise in a extremely cross-functional function operating strategic initiatives from thought via implementation.
• 6+ years main & mentoring UX groups, supervisor of managers a plus.
• Profitable expertise main a big workforce of designers (10+).
• Examples of broadly influential UX work that contributed on to the achievement of enterprise targets.
• Expertise designing for enterprise SaaS platforms.
• Ardour for the sphere of Person Expertise. Self motivated and enthusiastic; is aware of when it’s a necessity to hunt out steerage.
• Expertise facilitating actions to assemble insights on person wants and targets and conducting usability testing.
• Expertise discovering easy, progressive options for complicated issues.
• Expertise with Agile methodologies.
• Robust visible design abilities and sensibilities.
• Professional in Figma, Inventive Cloud or different visible design, wireframing, and prototyping instruments. Proficiency in speedy prototyping.
• Extremely organized with planning, conducting, and monitoring work.
• Glorious communication abilities and interpersonal abilities; capacity to work efficiently with groups throughout the group, together with Product Administration and Engineering.
• Means to articulate design selections and advocate for the person.

Perks & Advantages:

• Employer-paid Non-public Medical and Dental, further value for members of the family
• Month-to-month contributions towards your pension
• Month-to-month stipend to assist your work and productiveness
• 25 days paid for Vacation + Financial institution Holidays + Versatile Time Away Program
• 20 weeks absolutely paid Maternity Depart
• 12 weeks absolutely paid Paternity/Adoption Depart
• Private paid Volunteer Day to assist our group
• Alternatives for skilled development and growth together with entry to Udemy on-line programs
• Firm Funded Perks together with a counseling membership, wage sacrifice choices, and your personal private Smartsheet account.
• Teleworking choices from any registered location within the UK (function particular)

Get to Know Us:

At Smartsheet, your concepts are heard, your potential is supported, and your contributions have actual impression. You’ll have the liberty to discover, push boundaries, and develop past your function. We welcome numerous views and nontraditional paths—as a result of we all know that impression comes from people who care deeply and problem thoughtfully. If you’re doing work that stretches you, excites you, and connects you to one thing larger, that’s magic at work. Let’s construct what’s subsequent, collectively.

Equal Alternative Employer:

Smartsheet is an Equal Alternative (EEO) employer dedicated to fostering an inclusive surroundings with the most effective staff. It’s our coverage to supply equal employment alternatives to all certified candidates in accordance with relevant legal guidelines within the US, UK, Australia, Germany, Costa Rica, Japan, Bulgaria, and India. All certified candidates will obtain consideration with out regard to race, colour, faith, intercourse, sexual orientation, gender identification, nationwide origin, age, protected veteran or disabled standing, or genetic info. 

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