Vice President, Design
Weedmaps
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $250,156 - $286,512 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Ensure best in class experiences across all of our products and features and ensure teams are delivering high-quality product design work.
- Strengthen our mobile-first focus with motion design, micro-interactions, and native mobile gestures / affordances elevating the polish and intuitiveness of our consumer app.
- Define UX vision and strategy, generating buy-in and operationalizing the strategy across multiple teams and timelines.
- Be an expert in understanding the interconnectedness of the Weedmaps product suite and how all the parts fit together. Restructure foundational patterns across mobile app, mobile web and desktop.
- Use technical fluency, especially in mobile development constraints, while partnering closely with engineering and product to make pragmatic design decisions and help the org ship high quality work faster.
- Raise the bar for product quality across our products by advocating for user-centered product roadmaps, investments in last-mile refinement and polish, and insights driven by user research. Define clear design principles, quality standards, and review rituals.
- Iteratively improve products based on quantitative and qualitative feedback.
- Clearly communicate design decisions to stakeholders across departments.
- Execute on today, with an eye on the future.
- Balance quantitative and qualitative inputs.
- Develop and execute an AI design program to ensure designers are prototyping in the latest AI code tools.
Requirements
- Minimum of 10 years experience working in product design and have shipped several products and features.
- Minimum of 5+ years experience managing a design team.
- A portfolio of meaningful product design work (from UX design to visual design) that showcases ability to ship successful products.
- Experience developing product roadmaps for a cross-platform design, where mobile is primary.
- Experience creating a mobile experience that is primary, defining consumer touchpoint, rather than a port of the web experience.
- Proven ability to translate qualitative and quantitative insights into a clear direction that guides the team in creating the right experience.
- Proven track record devising product vision and strategy and designing high-quality products in collaboration with product management and engineering partners.
- You have the ability to manage, mentor & elevate a team of product designers and help them navigate ambiguity to find clarity.
- Experience working with e-commerce and consumer centric apps.
- History of growing a team across hiring and people development.
Benefits
- Physical Health (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- 100% employer-paid premium for employees
- Up to 80% coverage for dependents
- Up to $2,000 company HSA contribution with the High Deductible Health Plan
- 401(k) Retirement Plan (employer will match contribution up to 3.5% of employee contribution)
- Basic Life & AD&D - employer paid 1x salary up to $250,000
- Supplemental, voluntary benefits
- Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings with a monthly company contribution
- FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
- Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Accident Insurance
- Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
- Pet Insurance
- Identity theft protection
- Legal access to a network of attorneys
- PTO, paid sick leave, and company holidays (including a 2026 holiday shutdown)
- Paid parental leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
product designUX designvisual designmobile developmentAI designcross-platform designuser researchdesign principlesdesign strategymotion design
Soft skills
team managementmentoringcommunicationcollaborationuser-centered designstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingadaptabilityleadershipfeedback analysis