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Lead Product Designer

Job title: Lead Product Designer
Contract type: Freelance
Location: Portland
Discipline:
Remote: No
Reference: 418288
Contact name: Adrienne Salzwedel-Bass

Job description

24 Seven is partnering with one of our large outdoor camping brand clients in search for a Lead Product Designer. This is a fully remote role. 

Responsibilities:

We’re seeking a Lead Product Designer to join our tight-knit and talented Product team that is building the next generation of our free and paid services. As a Lead Product Designer, you will be responsible for owning design responsibilities for for key product areas as well as guiding product designers to build fun and engaging experiences across our web, app, magazine, and forum services. This role will have a huge impact on both our product evolution and team culture. We are looking for a player-coach who is comfortable doing hands-on design as well as mentoring and providing leadership to other product designers.

This position will report to the Head of Product..

We’re looking for people who:

  • Are great communicators — Effective communication is key to how we work. We value patience and empathy in our product planning, support, and day-to-day relations.
  • Work well both collaboratively and independently
  • Are ready to learn and share knowledge — Everyone comes to our company with their own set of skills and experiences. Cross-training, mentorship, and curiosity all help us build better products.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with product managers, user researchers, stakeholders and other designers to guide product vision and roadmap .
  • Clearly communicate a shared narrative and product vision across the company
  • Build and lead a collaborative team culture
  • Operate across projects balancing product vision and iterative, timely execution
  • Break down open-ended opportunities into actionable next steps
  • Oversee quality and consistency across different product teams
  • Manage product design team with clear expectations and help guide their careers
  • Guide the design team to bring strategic product thinking based on user needs and business goals into design work.
  • Continue to expand and refine our design system.

Experience and Requirements:

  • Minimum 8 years experience in product design with at least 2 years in leadership roles
  • A passion for camping and the outdoors.
  • Excellent leadership skills plus a capacity for continual learning and strong desire to grow a team and others around you
  • Experience managing and developing design talent
  • Experience using Figma
  • Experience designing features for iOS, Android and web.
  • Experience building, maintaining, and loving a component based design system.
  • Deep understanding of UX research practices and how to bring user insights into design solutions.
  • Strong balance of both visual and user experience design skills
  • Excellent personal organizational, communication and presentation skills for internal and external stakeholders
  • Passion for conceiving, designing, building, shipping, and sustaining amazing software products
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