[Remote] Staff/Lead Product Designer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thistle is a company focused on improving health and sustainability through nutritious meal delivery services. The Staff/Lead Product Designer will collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure a high-quality user experience while developing scalable design solutions and managing a future design team.

Responsibilities

• Think holistically about complex systems, empathize with customers, and understand business objectives to create compelling and effective product experiences
• Develop user-centered design solutions based on research, member insights, and industry best practices
• Partner with product to help define and execute research initiatives to guide the direction of your design work as well as inform business strategy
• Present design concepts and clearly communicate design intent through design specs and presentation documents
• Articulate, negotiate, and refine design requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers to arrive at the best design solutions
• Own and iterate on our design system and advocate for scalable design solutions across product, brand, and marketing
• Collaborate with our marketing team to ensure brand consistency and evolve our brand design system to be even more resonant and differentiating
• Work cross-functionally with product, data, marketing, engineering, and operations partners to represent the design function, facilitate design discussions, and give feedback in planning and product channels
• On Day 1, you’ll be the single member of our product design team. But when we expand the size of our product design team, you will: Build and manage our product design team. Hire the best, lead with a well-communicated vision, provide supportive coaching, and guide individuals along deliberate career development paths
• You’ll be a player-coach, directly owning and executing projects while also being a people manager

Skills

• Experience in product design with a strong portfolio showcasing product design work and thinking
• Ability to think holistically about complex systems and empathize with customers
• Understanding of business objectives to create compelling and effective product experiences
• Experience developing user-centered design solutions based on research and member insights
• Ability to partner with product teams to define and execute research initiatives
• Strong presentation skills to communicate design concepts and intent
• Experience articulating, negotiating, and refining design requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers
• Ability to own and iterate on design systems and advocate for scalable design solutions
• Experience collaborating with marketing teams to ensure brand consistency
• Ability to work cross-functionally with product, data, marketing, engineering, and operations partners
• Experience in building and managing a product design team, including hiring and coaching

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