Director, Product Design
At a glance
Director-level Product Design role at Kettle. Remote, United States · full-time · $190,000–$220,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Set product direction, shape new features and improve existing ones while building reusable UX and UI patterns across platforms
- Take projects from information architecture and user journeys through wireframes, interaction design and developer handoff
- Lead the design workstream, split larger projects into manageable pieces and carry insights between teams
- Balance direct design work with guiding and mentoring designers, while partnering with strategy, production and development
- Build client relationships by understanding their business goals and connecting them to consumer experience
What you bring
- Deep product and interaction design experience across native iOS and Android apps, websites and internal tools
- Experience leading UX and UI from early definition through launch, and managing and mentoring designers
- Clear communication and a record of working with senior clients and presenting to executive leaders
- Experience with agile product development and applying AI tools to design, including AI features and rapid prototyping
Who this fits
This director role suits a senior practitioner who wants to shape product strategy, lead designers and remain hands-on in design work. It is remote in the USA.
From the employer
Kettle designs digital products with soul, for some of the most ambitious consumer brands in the world. Our work lives at the intersection of product thinking and brand storytelling; products that are just as considered in feeling as they are in function.
We are looking for a Director of Product Design to join and help lead the Product team. In this role, you'll set product vision, design new features, and enhance existing ones while establishing scalable UX/UI patterns across platforms. Our Directors are designers and doers, both leading and managing, and contributing directly to the work as the most senior practitioner on the team.
Candidates should have:
- Extensive product design and interaction experience in either agency or related environments designing iOS and Android native applications, websites, and internal tools
- Design leadership experience across the product design lifecycle, including experience leading both UX and UI design workstreams, from early-stage definition through to shipping
- A clear communication style, with proven experience collaborating with senior-level clients and presenting to executive leadership
- Experience delivering user-focused solutions across a range of categories (Financial Services, Telecomm, Consumer Tech, etc.)
- Experience working in agile product design/development models
- Experience managing and mentoring junior to senior level product designers
- Fluency with AI tools as part of your design practice and workflows, including designing AI-enabled features, vibe coding, and rapid prototyping; you use them to move faster, think broader, and explore more, not just as a novelty
We’d like to know that you can:
- Guide high-level strategic decisions around product design and experience
- Contribute to the entire product lifecycle from start to finish, starting with defining IA, user journey, wireframes, to designing user interactions and handoff to development
- Balance leadership of the team with hands-on design work, guiding projects towards design excellence
- Lead the product design stream of work on projects, understanding how to break larger projects down into smaller tracts to hand off to designers and bring learnings from one workstream to another
- Partner with teammates of different disciplines including Strategy, Production, and Development
- Build strong client relationships with a solid understanding of their business needs, goals, and how those intersect with the consumer's experience
- Adapt to different working styles and processes, from quick-turn optimization to blue-sky visioning
- Manage and mentor designers of all levels, helping them chart their career path and provide opportunities to grow
The target range of compensation is $190k - $220k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.
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