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Shut is a bootstrapped, worthwhile, 100% distant, ~100-person workforce of considerate people who worth autonomy and impression. We’re out to supercharge gross sales productiveness for small scaling companies with essentially the most trendy, thoughtfully all-in-one, communication-focused CRM.
Our Product workforce 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, concentrate on use circumstances, and speak to our prospects each time. We share on The Making of Shut, our behind-the-scenes Product & Engineering weblog.
We’re in search of a seasoned Product Design Supervisor to information and form our rising workforce. On this function, you’ll oversee the design of our internet, desktop, and cell apps, and play a key function within the design and improvement of latest options. This function experiences to our Senior Director of Product.
This function is right for somebody who likes taking a hands-on strategy to management, enjoys the problem of managing a dynamic workforce, and is obsessed with fixing advanced issues with easy and stylish options.
Management with Function: You’ll have the chance to guide and nurture a workforce of gifted designers, fostering a tradition
of innovation and excellence. Your management will straight affect our design route and the evolution of our product.
Affect at Scale: You’ll get to supervise design work that has a direct and vital impression on the day by day experiences of our prospects and their groups. Your work might 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 delivery impactful product on time. Product, Design, and Engineering work collaboratively on the perfect answer. 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 the way modern options can emerge from a design-centric strategy.
Group Administration
- Lead a distributed workforce of 5+ designers (largely Senior-level)
- Host 1:1s and workforce conferences, and supply ongoing efficiency suggestions
- Set and execute quarterly workforce objectives
- Construct sturdy workforce tradition and proceed to lift the bar for design qualityIdentify skilled improvement alternatives for the workforce
- Develop the workforce, as wanted
- Construct and enhance workforce processes
Analysis
- Drive person analysis efforts to uncover ache factors, alternatives, and insights
- Foster a tradition throughout the design workforce of often doing qualitative and quantitative analysis (e.g., person interviews, surveys, usability testing, and many others.)
- Make sure the design workforce integrates person analysis findings into design choices
- Design & BuildProvide design evaluation/critique frequently (written suggestions, video calls)
- Oversee design planning and assignments for every Cycle
- Assist form tasks and concepts, particularly early within the course of
- Work intently 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
- Determine, plan, champion, and execute “Design-driven” tasks (e.g., redesigns, and many others.)
Expertise & Location
- Have 8+ years expertise in product design (4+ years in administration)
- Expertise in all points of design: Consumer analysis, interplay design, visible design, and many others.
- Expertise in establishing and enhancing processes for the way a design workforce works
- Monitor document of working intently with Product and Engineering groups on profitable tasks
- Have helped construct and preserve design techniques
- In a position to work roughly US east coast time zone hours (with a number of exceptions, a lot of the product, engineering, and design groups are on the US east coast or in Europe)
Design & UX Sense
- Sturdy portfolio of stylish and easy options for advanced desktop/cell SaaS merchandise
- Sturdy understanding of data hierarchy, progressive disclosure, typography, spacing, colour principle, and many others.
- Very educated about trendy UX/UI patterns on desktop and cell
- Distinctive style in software program design
Abilities & Data
- Take pleasure in serving to product designers thrive and develop of their roles
- Snug working remotely with a excessive stage of autonomy
- Buyer and problem-focused
- Sturdy mushy abilities, particularly round communication and collaboration
- Champion for design, but additionally know how one can work inside constraints and make trade-offs (we’re massive believers in having a set timeline, with versatile scope)
- Very educated about CSS, accessibility, and many others.
- Proficient with Figma (you understand how to work with elements, variants, variables, and many others.)
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 workforce 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 (normal full-time) or 4 days/wk @ 80% pay
- 1 month paid sabbatical each 5 years
- Paid parental depart
- Medical, Dental, Imaginative and prescient with HSA choice (US residents)
- 401k matching at 6% (US residents)
- Dependent care FSA (US residents)
- Our story and workforce 🚀
💚 Our Values
- Construct a home you wish to reside in – Look at long-term pondering and motion
- No BS – Observe transparency and honesty, particularly when it’s arduous
- Put money into one another – Construct profitable relationships together with your coworkers and prospects
- Self-discipline equals freedom – Hold your phrase to your self and others
- Attempt for greatness – Continuously problem your self and others
💻 How We Work Collectively
- Productiveness, High quality & Affect – We don’t observe hours. We belief you’re an grownup and know finest how one can prioritize, meet your objectives and contribute at a excessive stage.
- Asynchronous communication & collaboration – We’ve got workforce members everywhere in the world. We don’t anticipate anybody to work untraditional hours, meaning our default is async. Most groups have 2-5 hours of inner conferences weekly.
- Appreciation for Deep Work – Throughout your regular work day, not after a day a conferences!
- Autonomy & Freedom – Create a piece atmosphere that’s sustainable for you. We place a excessive quantity of belief and duty with our workforce members from the beginning.