Affinity builds infrastructure to power the relationship-driven economy. Our CRM underpins thousands of the world’s largest financial, professional services, and corporate institutions - including Softbank, MassMutual, a16z, Fidelity, Nike, and Tiger Global. We’ve achieved this by combining design with solving some of the hardest problems in data and AI: from daily-usage interfaces to powerful data visualizations, Affinity structures millions of contacts and billions of communications every year into insights that empower relationship-driven teams in 80+ countries. We want to change the way everyone grows and harnesses their network, and are looking for a world-class design leader to help us democratize that vision.

With the world primarily working remotely in distributed teams, collaboration is now harder than ever. Usage on Affinity is the highest it has ever been, sales has been exceeding goals month over month, and we are entering the hyper-growth stage in Affinity’s lifecycle. We are also now building Affinity’s 2nd product, powered by the same relationship intelligence technology behind Affinity CRM. It is an exciting time!

Design is a driving force at Affinity. Our design team is tasked with the constant challenge of distilling the enormous volume and complexity of our users’ relationship data into gorgeous, intuitive workflows that feel like magic to use. 

The Director of Product Design is a highly strategic role and will report to the VP of Design. In addition to managing and growing our team of Product Designers, you’ll partner with the Product and Engineering leaders to define product strategy and vision, break into new markets, and turn our mobile app into one of our flagship products. You will drive the quality, execution, and delightfulness of Affinity design across our product, marketing, and brand. And you will coach and grow a team of stellar designers, defining practices and playbooks to raise the bar for quality and craft.

We need someone who excels at upholding a high bar in craft and quality while executing in a fast-paced, ever-evolving technology startup. You thrive at keeping a team inspired and motivated in their work and ensure they see how their unique contributions connect to the bigger picture, the company strategy, and beyond to our end users. We are looking for a Director or Senior Director of Product Design that values career development, mentorship and will support the team as we scale.

What you’ll be doing:

• Build a high-performing team of world-class designers: attract, hire, coach, and grow Affinity’s Product Design team.
• Drive and raise the bar for exceptional quality, craft, and delightfulness end–to-end across a complex product and wide set of surfaces.
• Partner deeply with product and engineering to define and evolve Affinity’s cross-functional agile process, development teams, and product roadmap.
• Establish and maintain processes to help the design and product teams to rapidly build and ship best-in-class user experiences.
• Serve as an integral member of Affinity’s leadership team and partner in long-term strategic planning for how we grow Affinity.

Qualifications:

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are likely to only apply for jobs if they meet every qualification. At Affinity, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Required:

• You have 10+ years of experience in product design.
• You have 7+ years of experience building, coaching, and leading high-performing product and marketing design teams.
• You have exceptional design taste, evidenced by the quality of the work you have led, and a demonstrable foundation in interaction design, visual design, typography, product sense, and ideation/prototyping.
• You have partnered effectively with product, engineering, and marketing leadership on both strategy and execution.
• You have a clear sense of vision: rallying people, strong leadership skills, ability to define and deliver on new initiatives.
• You have high empathy. You are excellent at listening to and empowering your team while proactively coaching and pushing them to the next level of personal growth and craft.

What you’ll enjoy at Affinity:

• We live our values as playmakers, obsessed with learning, caring personally about our colleagues and clients, are radically open-minded, and take pride in everything we do.
• We pay your medical, dental, and vision insurance with comprehensive PPO and HMO plans. And provide flexible personal & sick days. We want our team to be happy and healthy :) 
• We offer a 401k plan to help you plan for retirement.
• We provide an annual budget for you to spend on education and offer a comprehensive L&D program – after all, one of our core values is that we’re #obsessedwithlearning! 
• We support our employee’s overall health and well-being and reimburse monthly for things such as; transportation, Home Internet, Meals, and Wellness memberships/equipment.
• Virtual team building and socials. Keeping people connected is essential.

Please note that the role compensation details below reflect the base salary only and do not include any variable pay, equity, or benefits. This represents the salary range that Affinity believes, in good faith, at the time of this posting, that it will pay for the posted job.  

A reasonable estimate of the current range is $146,000 to $247,000 USD. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.