[Remote] Staff/Lead Product Designer (63362)

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

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