Director, Product Design
About inPowered:
inPowered’s AI platform enables brands to maximize their content marketing ROI. Powered by Artificial Intelligence and years of machine learning, their Content Intelligence and Content Distribution solutions allow marketers to collect proprietary data and use it to drive real ROI – positively changing brand perception, increasing action taken onsite, lead generation and user engagement. inPowered was founded in 2014 by Peyman and Pirouz Nilforoush after selling their previous company, NetShelter, to Ziff Davis.
Description:
We are looking for an experienced product design leader to own the user experience of our products, website, branding, and anything else that touches design. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast-growing startup and play a key role building a world-class customer experience from the ground-up. You will collaborate closely with our founders on overall company product strategy and roadmap. You will spend time with customers (both external and internal) to understand their pain points and create simple experiences to solve their problems. You will collaborate with engineers to bring your designs to life. You will co-own responsibility of delivering our product roadmap in partnership with our CTO.
Responsibilities:
- Work relentlessly to understand our customers and their pain points
- Work closely with the founders and other key stakeholders to ensure your designs meet the requirements of internal and external customers
- Own the end-to-end product development cycle – from ideation and gathering requirements to creating wireframes + visual designs and collaborating with engineers to ensure pixel-perfect execution
- Co-own delivering against our product roadmap in partnership with our CTO
- Lead front-end team sprint planning - breaking down features into user stories and subtasks by working closely with the FE team
- Ensure throughout sprints that features are built according to design
- Orient solutions around clear goals, audiences, timeframes, and realistic technical capabilities while always pushing to deliver the best possible experience
- Participate in design reviews and share your work regularly with the design/product team and company leadership
Requirements:
- You have well-rounded skills and experience to run projects independently end to end. 5+ years of working experience designing consumer or business SaaS applications (Enterprise product experience is a plus).
- You can create clear, intuitive, and visually appealing human interfaces (UI)
- You can untangle vague conceptual problems and have a sharp intuition for the most accessible mental models and flows, so users can immediately start gaining value out of the product. (UX)
- You love making complex problems feel simple, and seeing the larger system to connect disparate pieces to visualize the users’ journey
- The design decision you make are data driven
- You care about the business needs, implications, and practicality of your designs. You don't get stuck on pretty UI or deep abstractions, and can balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line.
- BONUS - You can do basic coding in HTML + CSS + basic Javascript. (Even better if you're capable of procedure or Angular/React-level Javascript.)
- BONUS – Experience in MarTech/AdTech industries
Benefits:
- 100% paid medical and dental insurance for employees
- Unlimited vacation policy – take whenever you want
- Monthly reimbursements for the commute, gym, phone, Internet
