Product Design Director

| Greater NYC Area | Hybrid
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Product Design Director

(NYC based)

GIANT MACHINES 

Giant Machines is a technology firm that helps our clients bring the right digital products to market through product validation, strategy, design, and development. We are a 90+ person team with a track record of building software that drives thousands of businesses, powers financial marketplaces with billions of dollars of daily transaction volume, and is deployed by thousands of people in the field. 

ABOUT US

  • Diversity-forward company
  • #2 Best Place to Work in NYC by Crain’s New York Business
  • Built in NYC 2021 Best Places to Work New York City
  • Certified Asian American Business
  • Proud Member of Pledge 1%
  • Monthly Lunch & Learns
  • Company-wide volunteer opportunities
  • Solid work-life balance

ABOUT THIS ROLE

Product Design Practice

  • Be responsible for crafting how a product design practice functions at Giant Machines.
  • Advocate for and manage the product design team, evaluation of their skills, and help them develop as product designers and project leaders.
  • Put together growth and hiring plans for the product design team as well as help in the recruiting, interviewing, and continual development of the team.
  • Be a product design ambassador and advocate - hosting product design seminars and presentations and developing new product design artifacts and frameworks with their team.
  • Represent and lead the product design team to clients and the rest of the Giant Machines organization

Organizational Leadership

  • Work with the rest of the leadership team (C-suite and Directors) to decide on strategic direction for the organization
  • Work closely with engineering, product, and strategy leaders and teams to build on our one team initiative - our desire for a cohesive, highly collaborative and cooperative, cross functional team

Growing Organizational Client Consulting Capabilities

  • Work with sales, revops, product, engineering, and strategy teams to craft how product design work layers into existing sales efforts
  • Help sales win engagements that require product design expertise
  • Provide new engagements with Design and stakeholder leadership to ensure alignment and opportunities to influence client leadership for the first 4-6 months

ABOUT YOU

  • 10+ years experience in the Product Design practice and industry-leading design techniques and practices 
  • Deep experience in hiring, mentoring, and growing a team
  • Experience providing end-to-end digital product leadership, from concept to scale
  • Consulting leadership experience

BENEFITS & COMPENSATION

  • Medical benefits at no cost to you for single coverage (cost associated with insuring partner and/or dependents)
  • Robust well-being offerings that allow you unlimited access to virtual fitness, meditation, yoga, cooking classes, homeschooling preparedness, physical therapy and more
  • 16 weeks of paid family leave 
  • 401(k) with 4% employer match
  • Profit-sharing
  • $3k yearly education budget plus 5 conference/education PTO days
  • $1k stipend to purchase items for your work-from-home space

NY Pay Transparency: The pay range for this position is 160K - 180K annually based on skills and experience. 

Recruitment Agencies:  Giant Machines does not accept unsolicited agency resumes and will not be held responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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Location

Our office is located in a beautiful building downtown in the heart of the Financial District. Accessible by ①②③ 🅡🅦 ④⑤ 🅐🅒🅔 PATH & Ferry

An Insider's view of null

How does your team reward individual success?

I think the strongest rewards for individual success come in the form of increased responsibilities. GM has been very good at starting projects with senior engineers as leads, then sliding more junior engineers into lead roles as projects progress. I think this works both ways in that it rewards individual success and encourages/enables success.

Dillon

Senior Software Engineer

What does your typical day look like?

Start the day off with standup and understand what I'm working on that day. Which would then lead to potential collaboration with fellow engineers and product on any outstanding blockers/questions that I would have. Mixed in with some heads-down time during the day would be PR reviews and project-focused meetings.

Ho Won

Senior Software Engineer

How does the company support your career growth?

Giant Machines encourages its employees to continue expanding their skills. They support and encourage the attendance of conferences or additional trainings and also allocate an education budget for every employee. Additionally, the company hosts many informal sessions led by individual team members to demonstrate new technologies and skills.

Alfonso

Software Engineer

What are null Perks + Benefits

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Pair programming
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Company equity
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Company sponsored family events
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free daily meals
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Recreational clubs
Relocation assistance
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks
Paid industry certifications

Additional Perks + Benefits

CLIENTS
Our clients are financial institutions large and small, including banks, brokers, and startups. While working with us, you'll get to collaborate with highly skilled, highly motivated designers and developers.

APPROACH
Our approach is user-focused, design forward. Our applications are well thought out, beautiful products that are also technically sound, well documented, and performant. The applications we build support many different types of financial professionals, including traders, business analysts, and C-suite executives.

CULTURE
Our culture is deeply collaborative. We pair program, host lunch-and-learns, have group discussions and work very closely together. Our developers learn more, solve more interesting problems, push more production code, and build more software in their first year at Giant Machines than they would anywhere else.

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