Lead Product Designer
Hnry
Product, Design
Wellington, New Zealand
Posted on Oct 10, 2024
Lead Product Designer
Wellington, New Zealand
Permanent, full-time
The product design team is crucial to ensuring our customers are at the core of every product and design decision. Reporting to the Chief Executive Offer, the Product Design Manager is responsible for leading a team of product designers working with senior leaders to define the product design vision. They will work cross-functionally with other engineering, marketing, customer care and product leads to solve customer needs and deliver business outcomes.
Responsibilities
Work with key stakeholders from around the business to agree and articulate the product design vision, ensuring that it aligns with the company's goals and objectives.
Collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation to identify customer needs and business outcomes that should drive product design decisions.
Provide strong design leadership to a team of product designers, guiding their professional growth and fostering a collaborative and innovative design culture within the company.
Work closely with Product Management, Brand, and the Leadership Team to ensure our product design aligns with the overall product strategy and that we are delivering a consistent experience across all touch points.
Keep up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies, analysing how they might impact our business and incorporating them into our design decisions where appropriate. You will be responsible for ensuring that our product design stays current and competitive.
Facilitate workshops, design sprints and other design thinking methodologies to foster a collaborative, user-centered design approach across the organisation.
Act as a design evangelist, educating and inspiring others within the company on the value and importance of great design.
Own development and maintenance of design systems and component libraries, ensuring design consistency and scalability across products.
Partner with customer teams to conduct user research, usability testing, and analyse data to gain insights into user behaviour and preferences, informing design decisions and iterations.
You will:
Have 5+ years of experience in product design
Have management experience leading a team of designers
Have a passion for pragmatic user-centric design, delivering engaging experiences for both novice and advanced users alike
Be able to demonstrate ability to solve complex problems and deliver business outcomes
Be comfortable to clearly articulate a product vision and work incrementally to deliver on that vision
Have experience working cross-functionally with engineering, marketing, and product teams
Have prior experience in data-led decision making, and the ability to identify the key metrics that indicate the success of particular designs
Have experience with multiple wireframing and prototyping tools, such as Figma, InVision, Adobe XD or Sketch
Bonus points for the following:
Previous experience in a fast paced start up or scale up in fintech or SaaS, or experience in payments / banking
Experience being self-employed (freelancing, contracting etc.) in any industry/profession
Experience of working in a fast-paced, agile workplace
How we work
We are a fast-moving, highly collaborative and motivated team, that is growing quickly
We have a relentless focus on the customer, and on delivering great experiences to ensure we maintain our high rate of customer referrals
We take a data-driven approach to everything we do, making decisions based on user behaviour - constantly tweaking and optimising to improve.
We follow agile practices, delivering improvements iteratively in small chunks. We track the impact of our work and measure ourselves based on delivering measurable contributions towards agreed targets.
We encourage experimentation - whether that's experimenting with new tools or techniques, or experimenting with new channels
We invest in our people, and provide opportunities for career growth and progression
We work hard and we finish on time, no crazy hours.
ALT
Salary banding: $150,000 - $165,000 per annum
How to apply
Does this role sound like a good fit? Complete the Hnry Job Application Form.