Head of UI/UX Design
CurbWaste
full-time
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Location: New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $180,000 - $200,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Lead and mentor a growing team of designers
- Balance UX research with a robust design framework to create impactful designs
- Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to understand user requirements, business goals, and technical constraints
- Foster an iterative design process including rapid prototyping, attentive listening, adaptability, and integration of feedback
- Serve as the final review point for the design team during the PDLC process
- Use, contribute to, and evolve design systems and component libraries
- Bring modern, agile, product discovery design processes to the team leveraging AI
- Execute a comprehensive design strategy to meet and exceed adoption targets
- Build and maintain strong customer relationships and understand customer needs
- Stay abreast of industry trends, competitive landscape, and customer feedback to inform product development
Requirements
- 5-8+ years of experience with at least three years as in a lead product design role or design manager role, preferably in a startup environment
- Versatile design skill set including user research, systems thinking, wireframing, and visual design
- Ability to maintain focus and make decisions without perfect information
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Desire to be hands on with product and lead the team by doing
- Experience with maintaining and implementing design systems
- Experience in designing & prototyping using Figma
- Experience in a vertical SAAS company is a strong plus