Lead Product Designer - Fully Remote
Inspectorio, Spain
Job Description
ABOUT US
Inspectorio is a cloud-based SaaS solution focused on creating a dynamic and risk-assessment based Quality and Compliance program with the goal of generating more sustainable and transparent supply chains. Our network is a one-stop-shop platform where all key stakeholders in the production process can connect to execute, monitor, and report on Quality and Compliance activities.
Our products provide digitization, automation, transparency, and traceability, with a strong focus on advanced analytics amp; Machine Learning. This enables us to leverage customer data for predictive insights and dynamic risk-based interventions.
Founded in 2016, Inspectorio set out to revolutionize the supply chain industry. Today, we work with many of the world’s leading brands and retailers, and over thousands of vendor and factory organizations across the globe to bring unparalleled levels of visibility, transparency, and accuracy to their quality, sustainability, and compliance initiatives!
JOB SUMMARY
We seek a Lead Product Designer with the knowledge, skills, experience, passion and leadership abilities to create products that our users will love.
As a leader within the product design team, reporting to the Head of Product Design, you will advocate for the user at every turn, ensuring our products are attractive, pleasurable, friction-free and effortlessly intuitive.
You will own and execute the end-to-end product design and research process in your team, from discovery through to ideation and execution. This will involve a variety of research, design and coordination tasks everything from running user research workshops to iterating designs to achieve pixel perfection.
You will be a lead individual contributor while managing direct reports.
You will collaborate closely with many colleagues and stakeholders in Product and other teams
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Partner with Product Managers, Designers, Product Owners, Engineers and others to design and deliver key new product roadmap features, and improve existing features and solve usability challenges
- Own the overall end-to-end user experience across your entire product from the big picture down to specific interactions, and ensure that users love the product
- Help define product requirements through collaborative ideation and high-level prototyping, with subsequent validation
- Lead by example, as well as contributing to team leadership activities such as mentoring and coaching, project planning, onboarding or recruiting
- Contribute to the growth and development of your direct reports
- Hold regular 1-to-1s, performance review and other related people-development activities with your reports
- Work with UX Researchers to test assumptions and hypotheses and rapidly integrate feedback into design iterations
- Own and implement the design process followed by your team, with best practices, including a strong focus on data and behavioral research
REQUIREMENTS
- A portfolio with compelling case studies of previous work is a must
- Excellent spoken and written English, and excellent communication skills
- 7+ years experience in Product Design and/or related field
- 2+ years people management experience
- Strong leadership skills, including decisiveness, integrity, growth mindset and a positive attitude
- Excellent relationship-building skills
- Expertise in Figma and other design tools
- Excellent understanding of design principles including usability heuristics, layout and visual hierarchy principles, typography, etc
- Deep understanding of front-end coding frameworks (HTML, CSS, JS, etc.) and the interplay between design and engineering
COMPETENCIES
- Ability to work on several projects and/or products in parallel
- Ability to prioritize tasks and manage time effectively
- An enthusiastic and emphatic leadership style that earns the trust and respect of others, and inspires them to do their best work
- Demonstrated success in creating a collaborative culture of design and in promoting a user-first mindset among colleagues
- Passion for product design with deep knowledge of best practices and an ability to convince others on what works / doesn’t work
- Experience as a thought leader in design and/or research for example, by conceiving and delivering talks on design, writing articles or blogs, or similar activities
- Experience with various research methods and a good understanding of when to use which method
- Excellent communication skills, with proven ability to convey design ideas to colleagues, product teams and senior stakeholders
- Track record of success improving process and communication thr