Full-Time

Head of Design

ProductBoard

ProductBoard

201-500 employees

Customer-centric product management platform for prioritization and roadmap


Senior, Expert

London, UK

Required Skills
Sales
Marketing
Product Design
Requirements
  • 12+ years of total design experience, with 6+ years of those leading designers and design managers (preferably in high-growth startup environments)
  • An informed set of design principles from shipping and learning throughout your career, and a demonstrated ability to operate from a first-principles perspective
  • A deep understanding of human-centered design practices, how to leverage product design to solve complex business problems, and digital product development (consumer research, engineering, and data)
  • Experience advancing a company's design practices (brand, content, product, and research)
  • The ability to lead complex design topics, scaling your presence from clearly communicating a design vision to addressing project or organizational issues
  • The ability to align senior leadership and opinionated stakeholders on complex design decisions
  • The ability to build bridges between product development disciplines, as well as customer success, marketing, sales, and other departments
  • Join at the golden startup age - established stability of a Unicorn with space for individual impact
  • You'll enjoy an exciting team atmosphere, building a whole new category of software
  • You can help change the way that products are built all over the world
  • We iterate quickly and decisions are fast. You'll have a voice in what we do and see the impact of your work
  • We are backed by top Silicon Valley investors, giving us access to capital, networks, mentors, and new markets
  • We are recognized as one of the hottest tech startups on the market today, named by Forbes magazine and Business Insider as one of the best startup employers to bet your career on and are regularly recognized for our company culture
Responsibilities
  • Partner closely with product and engineering leadership to drive the winning strategy to achieve our mission. On a daily basis, you will lead and grow your design team while making design's impact visible across the organization
  • As an experienced design leader, you have interacted frequently with product management, engineering, marketing, and other stakeholders during product discovery, design, and development. You understand the challenges of product strategy and execution and are deeply interested in changing the status quo
  • You will own the overall product design strategy, design roadmap, and design processes. You will lead qualitative and quantitative research to uncover insights and customer needs
  • You will be part of the product leadership team and frequently interact with senior executives, as well as a growing list of world-class customers
Desired Qualifications
  • The ability to attract and retain senior design talent from around the world ( for leading distributed global teams)

Productboard is a customer-focused product management platform that is trusted by over 6,000 companies, including industry leaders like Microsoft and Zoom, to streamline their product development process. The company's culture is centered around bridging silos, fostering collaboration, and aligning everyone around a product roadmap, which has been proven to drive real business outcomes and improve productivity by 30%. With its AI-generated summaries, Productboard offers a unique competitive advantage by enabling teams to instantly understand customer trends across large volumes of feedback, thereby accelerating innovation and customer retention at scale.

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$261.7M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2014

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

-13%

1 year growth

-24%

2 year growth

-30%
INACTIVE