Head of Product Design
Overview
Feeld is looking for a Head of Product Design to join their remote team and lead the newly formed product design team to elevate the human experience of sexuality and relationships.
Job Description
At Feeld, we’re creating a world where everyone is more intimately connected to each other and themselves. Nothing is more important to us than building an inclusive, human-centred product and are looking for a Head of Product Design to become part of our remote team and our mission to elevate the human experience of sexuality and relationships. The Head of Product Design will be the champion and leader of the newly formed product design team. A highly creative and conceptual thinker, you will lead your team in crafting a beautiful in-app experience that embodies the Feeld brand across all touch points. You’ll sweat over the data and details to truly influence member behavior on the app to ensure we achieve business goals. To be right for this role, you should have a strong track-record of delivering leading edge digital product design with strong appreciation of creative and brand strategy, as well as 5+ years’ experience directly managing a team of designers.
Responsibilities
- - Create a vision and roadmap for bringing the brand mission and visual style to life across the entire product experience
- - Set and uphold the quality bar for Product Design across all Feeld products, in-line with brand strategy, brand identity and brand values.
- - Lead and support the product designers as their People Coach offering day-to-day direction, guidance, mentoring and coaching to enable them to do their best work and achieve their individual developmental goals.
- - Define and maintain Product Design principles and ways of working that are in-line with the wider Product Circle principles and ways of working to ensure a Product Design practice that is scaleable and future proof.
- - Work closely with analytics and user research to define and lead discovery and ideation processes across all product teams right through to testing and iteration.
- - Be a thought-partner to the VP of Product, inputting into Product strategy and tactical initiatives by demonstrating ability to make sound design decisions that uphold design quality and customer experience whilst staying accountable to business needs and goals.
- - Manage the team to consistently deliver tested, validated and ready-to-build designs that delight the community and address business goals.
- - Frequently demonstrate hands-on product design skills where required, whether working together with the team or independently, to achieve responsibilities at the quality required.
Required Skills
- - Proven experience (5+ years) in a leadership position with people management and development responsibilities.
- - Visionary and creative design professional who cares about all aspects of the user experience.
- - Comfortable working within and leading a team through situations of high ambiguity with competing priorities.
- - Action-oriented and can help others to break big challenges down into manageable and actionable pieces.
- - Passionate about product design and its role in providing users with life-enriching product experiences.
- - Experience creating and evolving design systems in a way that facilitates and enhances product design and development without being overly bureaucratic.
Benefits
- - Flexible working hours
- - Unlimited paid time off
- - A fully remote working situation
- - GBP £3k equipment and home office budget
- - Learning & development budget
- - On-demand therapy sessions and mental health support via Spill
- - In-person meet ups
About the company
Feeld’s ever-evolving platform creates safer, more inclusive spaces online and IRL for everyone to express and explore gender, sexuality, and desire outside of existing blueprints.