Lead Product Designer

• Posted : one year ago

Headquarters: Paris
URL: https://jam.gg

• Oversee the whole Design function: product branding, visual styling, user experience research and design for the entire product offering
• Manage and hire our team of designers, helping them grow and develop their skills and career. Gauge performance of individual contributors, and have candid conversations focused on helping them improve
• Take feedback and continuously improve yourself as a design leader and to help set team and individual goals
• Foster collaboration within the product team to fast track our user research workstream, helping design and product beef up our discovery efforts.
• Help designers get organized, and collaborate with the development team (PMs, POs, Devs, QA)
• Represent Jam’s design culture both internally and externally
• Develop design processes to scale design thinking
• Ensure the team is delivering great design quickly, predictably, and with appropriately defined scope;
• Remain hands-on to lead specific projects and efforts when needed;
• Know empathy is the most important design skill you possess;
• Guide the team towards simple and intuitive solutions for our customers;
• Recruit new designers and actively participate in the hiring process;
• Be responsible for all user experiences across the product, and ensure that everything Jam puts out meets our high standard of design.

• Understand technical products, and are excited to take complicated problems and make them simple for our customers to control and manage
• Scrappy enough to dive into the details and work through particularly tough problems yourself
• Strong proven experience of hands-on experience of Product Design, especially with a B2C platform, including visual design as well as user research and prototyping
• Highly collaborative, low-ego approach to design
• Ready to question assumptions and previous decisions whether they are in the product or in business decisions
• Some experience of managing a team of designers and/or UX/UI researchers
• A track record of creating great usable products and of design leadership, including running workshops
• A portfolio of relevant design work, executed either by yourself or a team that you led, that showcases your ability to ship successful products
• 6+ years of experience as a hands-on Product Designer working across a wide range of products and driving creative solutions
• 3+ years of direct experience managing design teams – you are skilled at mentoring and growing designers, and have experience as a people leader
• Great communication skills
• A good understanding of the streaming platform industry is a plus

• Unlimited holiday leave (minimum 5 weeks).
• Monthly well-being allowance (mental well-being, sports, massage, etc.).
• Home office allowance calculated on the prorata of the days worked monthly. 
• Fully remote & flexible working hours.
• Equal pay policy.
• Equal maternity and paternity leave (18 weeks) with 1 year seniority and after deduction of the maternity and paternity leave regulations in your country. 
• Maternity/Paternity subsidy of 3k euros with 1 year seniority.
• Stock option plan.
• Health insurance compensation a one-to-one basis, depending on geographical location & company's policy.
• Additional benefits depending on the geographical location.

Skills

• user experience
• docker
• qa
• product design
• cloud