Product Design Director
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.