Job Description
We are looking for a Product Design Director to help build a next-generation experience that will transform the investment culture in Mexico and seize an unprecedented opportunity to dramatically impact the financial independence of everyone in the country.
He/She will be in charge of setting the design vision, strategy, workflow and team structure to achieve world-class design status for the business. He/she will also work to enable streamlined collaboration among our designers and our product, marketing, and engineering teams at scale. Lastly, He/She will help us to scale a rapidly growing design team by defining clear culture, attracting the best design talent, and delivering amazing user experiences.
Responsibilities
- Being the primary voice of design, evangelizing about its importance on the product while articulating his/her vision.
- Contribute to the company strategy with an ongoing process of relentless refinement and evolution in his/her ability to abstract design (i.e. pioneering experience ideas, driving paradigm shifts, concept development, etc.)
- Facilitate and guide the company to evolve and mature it´s UX/UI processes to become a high standard mark within Mexican market.
- Understanding his/her peers in the other disciplines and translating their message to user centered quality design.
- Create a culture of inspiration, insight, and authority on design and user experience.
- Influence the product strategy, deliver high-quality design work, and understand how to solve a range of product challenges across iOS, Android, web, mobile web, and email.
- Partner with product management, engineering, and analytics to accelerate the creation, development, and iteration of our products.
- Champion fast iteration, deep user research, and broad experimentation.
- Find opportunities to improve how we work, and develop systems for scale.
- Partner with product management to create long term product strategy to help achieve our ambitious mission of changing consumer financial health.
- Manage and inspire a product design team.
Qualifications
Skills & Qualifications:
- 12+ years of experience designing consumer and/or SaaS products at world-class design-focused companies.
- Familiarized with (user centered) OKRs & KPIs in terms of product quality and customer satisfaction.
- Experience in managing people while being involved in day to day operation using a “hands on” approach within a strategy aligned methodology.
- Familiarized with scalable frameworks.
- Familiarized with Experiment -Driven Design
- Ability to recruit, hire and retain multi-disciplinary design teams.
- Experience managing a team across multiple disciplines (UI, UX, Content, Research, Behavioral Science, etc)
- Experience balancing process and productivity with craft and creative explorations. Emphasis on early prototyping, iterative cycles, and learning.
- A passion for accelerating team efficiency by improving processes and workflows within the design team and cross-functionally.
- Hands-on with design work, willingness to roll up your sleeves.
- A team player.
- Willingness to work from Mexico or aligned to Mexico's time zone.
- Fintech experience is a plus, but not a requirement.