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Shut is a bootstrapped, worthwhile, 100% distant, ~100-person group of considerate people who worth autonomy and impression. We’re out to supercharge gross sales productiveness for small scaling companies with probably the most trendy, thoughtfully all-in-one, communication-focused CRM.
Our Product group obsesses over delivering nice SaaS to serve the 6,000+ companies that select Shut to assist them develop. We’re data-driven, study the why behind issues, deal with use instances, and discuss to our prospects each time. We share on The Making of Shut, our behind-the-scenes Product & Engineering weblog.
We’re on the lookout for a seasoned Head of Product Design to information and form our rising group. On this position, you’ll oversee the design of our internet, desktop, and cellular apps, and play a key position within the design and improvement of latest options. This position reviews to our Senior Director of Product.
This position is good for somebody who likes taking a hands-on strategy to management, enjoys the problem of managing a dynamic group, and is captivated with fixing advanced issues with easy and stylish options.
Management with Goal: You’ll have the chance to steer and nurture a group of gifted designers, fostering a tradition
of innovation and excellence. Your management will immediately affect our design course and the evolution of our product.
Influence at Scale: You’ll get to supervise design work that has a direct and important impression on the day by day experiences of our prospects and their groups. Your work shall be an integral a part of their success as we construct a world-class CRM.
Deep Work: Our product improvement course of is impressed byForm Up. We work in six-week cycles, pondering deeply about the precise issues and transport impactful product on time. Product, Design, and Engineering work collaboratively on the perfect resolution. We consider in sustainable progress and success over the long term.
Design-Pushed Work: You’ll take cost of initiatives the place design leads the best way, setting the usual for a way modern options can emerge from a design-centric strategy.
Workforce Administration
- Lead a distributed group of 5+ designers (principally Senior-level)
- Host 1:1s and group conferences, and supply ongoing efficiency suggestions
- Set and execute quarterly group objectives
- Construct sturdy group tradition and proceed to boost the bar for design qualityIdentify skilled improvement alternatives for the group
- Develop the group, as wanted
- Construct and enhance group processes
Analysis
- Drive person analysis efforts to uncover ache factors, alternatives, and insights
- Foster a tradition inside the design group of frequently doing qualitative and quantitative analysis (e.g., person interviews, surveys, usability testing, and so forth.)
- Make sure the design group integrates person analysis findings into design choices
- Design & BuildProvide design evaluate/critique regularly (written suggestions, video calls)
- Oversee design planning and assignments for every Cycle
- Assist form initiatives and concepts, particularly early within the course of
- Work carefully with Product Administration and Engineering groups at each stage
- Collaborate with Engineering on constructing out and organizing our design system
- Guarantee consistency with Shut’s total model
- Tackle restricted particular person contributor work
Imaginative and prescient
- Outline and talk a compelling design imaginative and prescient that aligns with the product technique and Shut model
- Contribute to longer-term roadmap planning
- Establish, plan, champion, and execute “Design-driven” initiatives (e.g., redesigns, and so forth.)
Expertise & Location
- Have 8+ years expertise in product design (4+ years in administration)
- Expertise in all facets of design: Person analysis, interplay design, visible design, and so forth.
- Expertise in establishing and bettering processes for a way a design group works
- Monitor document of working carefully with Product and Engineering groups on profitable initiatives
- Have helped construct and preserve design programs
- Capable of work roughly US east coast time zone hours (with just a few exceptions, a lot of the product, engineering, and design groups are on the US east coast or in Europe)
Design & UX Sense
- Robust portfolio of stylish and easy options for advanced desktop/cellular SaaS merchandise
- Robust understanding of knowledge hierarchy, progressive disclosure, typography, spacing, shade principle, and so forth.
- Very educated about trendy UX/UI patterns on desktop and cellular
- Distinctive style in software program design
Expertise & Information
- Get pleasure from serving to product designers thrive and develop of their roles
- Comfy working remotely with a excessive degree of autonomy
- Buyer and problem-focused
- Robust smooth abilities, particularly round communication and collaboration
- Champion for design, but in addition know tips on how to work inside constraints and make trade-offs (we’re huge believers in having a set timeline, with versatile scope)
- Very educated about CSS, accessibility, and so forth.
- Proficient with Figma (you know the way to work with elements, variants, variables, and so forth.)
Bonus Factors
- Expertise or familiarity with Form Up
- Expertise in gross sales or with gross sales instruments
- Expertise within the B2B area
- Familiarity with GitHub Points & Tasks
🌏 Why Shut?
- Watch our most up-to-date tradition video that includes our annual group retreat in Italy
- 100% distant firm
- 5 weeks PTO + Winter Vacation Break with 2 further PTO days for yearly with the corporate
- Select between working 5 days/wk (customary full-time) or 4 days/wk @ 80% pay
- 1 month paid sabbatical each 5 years
- Paid parental go away
- Medical, Dental, Imaginative and prescient with HSA possibility (US residents)
- 401k matching at 6% (US residents)
- Dependent care FSA (US residents)
- Our story and group 🚀
💚 Our Values
- Construct a home you need to reside in – Study long-term pondering and motion
- No BS – Follow transparency and honesty, particularly when it’s exhausting
- Spend money on one another – Construct profitable relationships along with your coworkers and prospects
- Self-discipline equals freedom – Preserve your phrase to your self and others
- Try for greatness – Consistently problem your self and others
💻 How We Work Collectively
- Productiveness, High quality & Influence – We don’t observe hours. We belief you’re an grownup and know finest tips on how to prioritize, meet your objectives and contribute at a excessive degree.
- Asynchronous communication & collaboration – Now we have group members everywhere in the world. We don’t count on anybody to work untraditional hours, meaning our default is async. Most groups have 2-5 hours of inside conferences weekly.
- Appreciation for Deep Work – Throughout your regular work day, not after a day a conferences!
- Autonomy & Freedom – Create a piece surroundings that’s sustainable for you. We place a excessive quantity of belief and accountability with our group members from the beginning.