Head of Design
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About the Role
Yieldstreet is looking for a Head of Design to take our brand and product experience to the next level. We're building the largest global digital wealth management platform to change the way wealth is created. Our investor community builds a diversified portfolio of investments outside of the stock market to generate passive income. Ambitious goals require ambitious leadership. We need someone that can effectively scale the design team while ensuring the brand is represented across every touchpoint and the design system is harmonious and scalable.
What you'll do - Brand and Product Design Strategy:
- Drive our Yieldstreet design standards and design system forward, setting design as a core competency and differentiator.
- Collaborate across functions to help set roadmaps that will achieve business goals through design.
- Embody user focus and drive Yieldstreet product and brand, through every touchpoint.
- Own art direction rooted in visual design but also experienced in motion and interactive design.
- Develop brand concepts working closely with the marketing team (copywriters, marketers, marketing directors, etc.).
- Lead user research and other experiments to inform design decisions.
- Advocate for and teach product design skills across the organization.
- Find ways to involve non-designers in the product design process through design sprints and other creative means.
- Give back to the community via open source, blog posts, and sharing design team work.
What you'll do - Team Management:
- Manage and build rapport with each member of the design team. Work hard to help them level up their skills. (Today, our design team is comprised of 3 product designers and 3 visual designers.)
- Design and implement a process to effectively recruit and onboard new designers, ensuring that scaling the team is as efficient and deliberate as possible.
- Foster a team culture of continuous growth and improvement -- providing training to designers and encouraging cross-team collaboration and skill-sharing.
- Provide constructive feedback on all design deliverables that ensures cohesion with the brand and design system.
What you'll need:
- You are a skilled UX and UI designer who can jump in if-needed. You've done it for years and have lots of stories and advice to share based on prior experience.
- You have both hands-on and leadership experience across all touchpoints of design; from branding and marketing design, to product design and research.
- You have conducted user research and can combine qualitative and quantitative research to help drive decision making within the broader organization.
- You can balance product, business, and design needs with a customer-focused mantra. You are able to relate to customers and deliver a superior user experience in a simple and clear manner while supporting business goals.
- You're a champion for doing things efficiently. The work you do will have a disproportionate impact on the business. We believe in systems and processes that let us scale our impact to be larger than ourselves.
- You understand code well enough to know if design solutions are attainable and you can communicate with engineers to ensure designs are properly implemented.
About Yieldstreet
Yieldstreet is building the largest global digital wealth management platform to change the way wealth is created. With an investor-first approach, our investor community builds a diversified portfolio of investments outside of the stock market to generate passive income. Yieldstreet is giving unprecedented access to asset classes such as Real Estate, Marine, Legal, Art & Commercial. We’re headquartered in New York City with offices in Brazil, Argentina, Malta and Greece.
Benefits
We offer an attractive market compensation and benefits package including a stock option plan, health, dental & vision benefits, life insurance, unlimited paid vacation, sabbatical and paid holidays and that's before you even step in the office!
This is an opportunity to work with a group of diverse, smart, and friendly people from 8 different countries who speak a total of 17 different languages. Our team is comprised of successful entrepreneurs with combined exits of over $1B, and we get social with each other during happy hours, exercise classes and team off sites in our work hard/play hard culture. We're located in a beautiful new office in Midtown, and our building is close to most major subway lines.