Head of Product Design

Join Glean as the Head of Product Design, where you will lead and grow a diverse team of design professionals, oversee the design of our product, and collaborate closely with other function leaders. You will establish a high bar for design execution, craft a compelling long-term design strategy, and build a thriving, collaborative culture for designers.

Lead and grow a team of world-class product designers, researchers, and content designers to consistently execute on company goals and deliver high-quality product to customers.

Responsibilities

• Refine and lead the standard for design processes at Glean, and mentor and develop the skills, talents, and careers of the designers and design managers on your team.
• Collaborate closely with leaders in Product and Engineering to ensure that product areas are both planning well and hitting their metrics, and craft a compelling long-term design strategy and vision.
• Consistent track record of effectively managing people, developing talent on your teams, and fostering a healthy design culture for team members to succeed
• Experience defining and influencing product strategy and an understanding and appreciation for the accurate application of data and metrics in product design
• A genuine curiosity about AI and what this means for the future of work, design, interaction patterns, etc. You’re passionate about AI applications and have tinkered around with them to develop a perspective on them

Requirements

• Experience sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding for your team, as well as spot promising design talent
• 10+ years of experience successfully coaching and managing performance of teams in Product Design, Content Design or UX Writing, and UX Research. Preferably you have experience doing that at a high growth or later-stage tech company in B2B, including experience managing managers. You’ve worked at companies with very high design standards
• Mastery of the craft of design. You have a high product quality bar and a strong eye for visual and interaction design, and in-depth knowledge of human-centered design practices, research methodologies, and design tools. You map product design decisions back to user problems and build deep empathy and understanding for the end user
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills that leverage storytelling to drive alignment at different zoom levels and contexts to leadership, the design team, the company, and more
• Experience with organizational planning and strong leadership experience managing lean teams with multiple priorities. Bonus if you have experience building distributed teams across time zones (e.g. Palo Alto and Bangalore)
• A strong portfolio of product work showcasing exceptional visual and interaction design craft as done by yourself and/or teams you’ve led and influenced that have positively impacted the business
• Hands-on, collaborative, low-ego leader with a high level of ownership and drive, who can think big and dive deep while connecting the dots. You are comfortable juggling many responsibilities at the same time

Pay

USD 250,000 - 300,000

Benefits

• Strong experience partnering with PM, Engineering, and Marketing to drive vision, strategy, and execution to ship impactful products in fast-paced, high growth startup