Lead Product Designer

About the position

As a lead product designer at Hover your main job is to solve user problems. You will tackle tough interaction and service design challenges while working closely with PMs, engineers, and data scientist to iterate and create the best experiences for our users in a fast paced, and growing environment. You must be highly strategic, and detail oriented, brining a deep understanding of visual design, UX, and UI design. We look for T-shape designer who are experts in at least one area, but can handle a broad range of challenges like UX, visual, and service design.

Collaboration and critique is something that is at the core of what we do at Hover. We believe that to create the best product experience it requires intense collaboration and for the team to challenge each other constantly, asking the hard question to improve our work. We don’t present work here (google slide) we prototype, early and often. Our focus is always on the user so we test early and often. 

You are the confident, strategic voice in the room. You know the product well enough to know what is and isn’t possible. You understand and have strong design fundamentals and you’re comfortable leading conversations with stakeholders. And you play an active role in evolving our design system.

You will contribute by

• Ideating, concepting, and designing projects spanning product features, landing pages, internal collateral, and external brand communications
• Attending shadowing and learning sessions with departments throughout the company
• Partnering with Engineers and Product Managers to create and ship work
• Evolving our design system

Your background includes

• 5+ years of experience
• Expert at developing and conveying ideas clearly in written and visual format - making business concepts and data visually engaging through use of color, typography, images, infographics, and animation.
• Mastery of Principle and Figma
• Attention to detail - every decision matters
• Deadline-driven with the ability to prioritize projects concurrently
• Ability to work collaboratively with people from all disciplines and levels
• A portfolio showing your high quality, thoughtful visual and interaction work
• A track record of shipping great design, and an understanding of what details matter at each stage of the release cycle
• Experience with identifying and solving complex and ambiguous design problems
• Can demonstrate thinking at a high level about product strategy and vision
• Proven ability to manage and lead in cross-functional environments
• Ability and desire to solve complex product design problems and the strategy skills to deliver best-in-class solutions
• Impeccable execution and care for all aspects of design, from conceptual thinking to motion and visual design
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize and present findings, and articulate design rationale
• Experience working in a highly iterative, collaborative environment where people share work daily
• Familiarity with prototyping tools (principle, or code)
• We like to move fast - and you know what quality looks like and how to help product teams ship at that quality with minimal impact on velocity.

Who you are

• You are master craftsman with a portfolio of amazing work. 
• Your attention to detail and care for design execution is impeccable, from concept through delivery.
• You participate in all project phases, from strategy to launch to optimization.
• You work iteratively and collaborate with the team on initial concepts, user flows, visual design, and prototypes.
• You're a product manager's right hand and you thrive in helping to define requirements, not just translating them into designs. You facilitate and draw the best design ideas from teammates. Questions everything, and why.
• You use data to drive decisions and have an understanding of what features can act as multiplier for our business.
• You don't get intimidated tackling large complex projects and creating clear timeline of tasks and deliverables for your team.

Benefits

• Compensation - Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a fast-growing company
• Healthcare - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and dependents
• Paid Time Off - Unlimited and flexible vacation policy 
• Paid Family Leave - We support work/life balance and offer generous paid parental and new child bonding leave 
• Mandatory Self-Care Days - A day set aside each month to allow employees to recharge 
• Remote Wellbeing Resources - We provide recurring fitness classes, meditation/ mindfulness tools, virtual therapy, and family planning assistance 
• Learning - We encourage continued education and will help cover the cost of management training, conferences, workshops, or certifications

Hybrid roles at Hover

Hover has Hubs in San Francisco and New York City, where we expect that all employees living within a 50-mile radius of our offices will come into their local Hover office at least three times a week to build rapport and foster organic connection. At this time, Hover is not considering fully remote roles.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $185,000 - $229,000 annually. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all applicable US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

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