Director, Product Design
JOB TYPE
Full-Time
LOCATION
Hyderabad
About Us:
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Seismic, a rapidly growing Forbes Cloud 100 company, is the global leader in enablement, helping organizations engage customers, enable teams, and ignite revenue growth. The Seismic Enablement CloudTM provides continuous guidance to improve behavior, content, and skills to win more deals and deliver better experiences. More than 2,200 organizations around the globe including IBM and American Express have made Seismic their enablement platform of choice. Seismic integrates with business-critical platforms including Microsoft, Salesforce, Google and Adobe. Seismic is headquartered in San Diego, with offices across North America, Europe, Australia and China.
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Overview:
We’re seeking a forward-thinking Director of Product Design who is passionate about solving complex problems in a highly customer-centric way. You will lead teams in the creation of world-class experiences, based on our customer needs and our business goals.
The Seismic Product Design team is a diverse, fun, hard-working, creative, and highly collaborative group. Each designer brings their unique perspective to help us realize our goal of solving users’ needs by designing software that is driven by empathy and validated with data. We have a strong focus on continuous learning and growth and seek to leave everything a little better than we found it. If you are passionate about people and design, enjoy working with others on complex problems, and are excited about the prospect of joining a dynamic and visionary team – let’s chat!
Who you are:
- 10+ years in product design, 5+ years of experience managing design teams with demonstrated success
- A strong leader who can inspire and motivate designers to deliver their best work while also making it enjoyable
- Expertise in design thinking, usability laws, workshop creation and facilitation in complex B2B or B2C products
- A skilled coach, mentor and teacher
- Exceptional collaborator with product management, engineering and design teams
- Driven to move quickly, make decisive decisions, and support teams to deliver world-class user experiences
- Excellent communication skills, including verbal, written, and visual communication, with the ability to influence and build consensus across all levels of the organization
- Able to interact with many stakeholders and balance a multitude of inputs, including user and business needs, while planning and allocating resources effectively
- Experience working with Figma, design systems and JIRA
- Pragmatic understanding of AI capabilities
- Please include a resume and portfolio as part of your application. Applications without portfolio won’t be accepted.
What you’ll be doing:
- Provide thought-leadership in design for developing delightful experiences by setting the design strategy and vision for your strategic area
- Deliver a cohesive experience across different platform verticals
- Coach and advocate for your team—inspiring and elevating them to their best potential by providing regular feedback and guidance
- Contribute to shared initiatives and operational improvements that drive positive impact for the team at large
- Oversee and manage design delivery for product features and new product development
- Ensure organizational visibility into the work your team is doing and facilitate collaboration with the wider design team
- Collaborate with product managers and technical leads by helping to frame problems, validate assumptions, identifying learning goals, and scoping product design work
- Plan and facilitate workshops that teach and socialize design best practices, user research and experience strategy
- Provide timely feedback, support, and guidance for your team on process and work
- Minimize and/or remove roadblocks for individual contributors to enable them to do their best work
- Identify opportunities for individual’s professional growth and development
What you bring to the team:
- Design maturity to the design team and to the rest of the organization
- Strong point of view balanced with the ability to compromise
- Inspiration that gets the best of every team an individual
- Anticipate bandwidth needs and effective planning
- Excellent communication and collaboration
- Active listening and ability to understand the “why” of every situation,
- Ability to make intentional decisions and never spin in uncertainty.
- The believe in progress, not perfection
- A passion for mentoring and developing team members, and fostering a culture of creativity and collaboration
- A people-focused approach to design that puts team members and users at the heart of everything we do
- Curiosity and a growth mindset that believes in the possibility of a better future
What we have for you:
At Seismic, we’re committed to providing benefits and perks for the whole self. To explore our benefits available in each country, please visit the Global Benefits page.
- Generous paid vacation, sick leave, and holiday benefits, including an end-of-the-year company shutdown
- Competitive medical, dental and vision plans, as well as an optional Health Savings Account with a company contribution
- Paid parental leave and family caregiver leave
- $1,000 annual professional development reimbursement
- Enhanced fertility and egg freezing benefits
- 401(k) plan with annual company match
- Monthly stipend for cell phone expenses
- Flexible work schedule
- Seismic Cares employee volunteer program
- #OneSeismic culture that celebrates wins, encourages autonomy, ownership and transparency