Head of Design
Retail Zipline- Full Time
- Posted : 4 years ago
TELECOMMUTE LOCATION: Remote, Work From Anywhere
Are you passionate about helping retail companies revolutionize the way they do business? Are you looking for a career that allows you to work with the world’s best-known brands and Fortune 1,000 leaders? Do you want to work on a global team of talented people who care deeply about the people who use their products?
Our mission is to bring retail operations out of the dark ages and give companies effective tools that their employees love to use. You will help improve the way that this 4.4 trillion dollar industry communicates with its store employees and save them from sad, slow, inefficient systems (think fax machines, voicemails, and the postal service). People deserve better! We need your help to make this happen.
We are an enterprise software company that’s leading the way in the retail industry. We have awesome customers, great investors and a talented team. We are looking for a Head of Design to help us ensure our customers are successful with our product and that our brand reflects our values. For this role, we are looking for someone who is an accomplished design leader that can build a team of talented designers across multiple disciplines, define a vision for our company and our product’s design, and set the tone for how our team achieves it.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Recruit, manage and lead a team of team of user-centric designers
- Establish and evolve our product’s aesthetic and design system
- Partner with our product team to set a vision for our product
- Implement design standards and a regular review process
- Hold the team accountable for following our design principles
- Be a champion for our users within the organization. Come up with design and usability solutions that improve how they work
- Help shape ideas and prototypes so teams can quickly iterate and develop new features
- Represent and refine our brand aesthetic in partnership with marketing
Competencies
- Outstanding listening and writing skills, and a keen ability to translate complex concepts into simple, persuasive language
- Prior experience as a design leader at an earlier stage company. Need to have familiarity with the style, pace and uncertainty of a company at our stage
- Strong people management skills and proven ability to hire and develop design talent
- Established and managed relationships across product, engineering, marketing, and sales
- Proven track record of developing effective, easy to use products that delight users by making their lives easier
- A strong understanding of user-focused design principles as they relate to web applications, including accessibility and internationalization
- A love for writing and an understanding that copywriting is a huge part of design
- Must be able to own the process and lead meetings toward effective outcomes
More about you
- Retail experience is an asset, but not required
- Proficient in productivity applications such as Microsoft Office, Project or Basecamp
- Team player with excellent collaboration skills to build relationships across the company with both ours as well as our customers
- Self-motivated, dependable, and dedicated
- Experience working remotely
What's In It for You
- Remote office: Join an effective remote team and work where you’re comfortable
- Stock: Ownership in a fast-growing company.
- Time Off: Flexible vacation policy to encourage people to get our and see the world
- Benefits: 401k, and world-class medical, dental, and vision policies
- Team Fun: Twice annual company off-sites in fun locations. We’ve done New York, Costa Rica, Whistler, Palm Springs, San Diego, and Mexico City
- Learning: Sponsorship of meetup and conference attendance
- Great team: Working with fun, hard-working, nice people who are committed to making a difference!
- And Much More!
We value the diversity of all kinds and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.
Skills
- Web Design
- communication skills
- Organization skills
- Problem Solving
- Time management
- CUSTOMER SERVICE
- Relationship building
