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. They are seeking a Staff/Lead Product Designer to work with product and engineering teams to ensure a high-quality user experience and create scalable design solutions across the organization.
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
- 10+ years of relevant experience in user experience design in a product-driven company
- Demonstrated ability to lead the conception and prototyping of brand new products as well as feature enhancements, all with a user-centered design process
- You have a user and data-informed design mentality. You are constantly looking to hone your team's instincts through user feedback and data insights
- Deep experience conceiving of, planning, and executing user research projects
- Strong ability to communicate in writing to concisely share insights and effectively lay out a case for a course of action
- Experience designing for both web and mobile. Familiarity with unique technical and usability constraints when designing for desktop and mobile
- Experience hiring and directly managing other designers is a plus
Company Overview
Thistle is a food and juice company that delivers fully-prepared, plant-forward meals to the doorsteps of its customers. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.thistle.co.