Director, Product Design

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About the role

What you'll do

• Drive strategic design initiatives that directly contribute to key business objectives and the product roadmap.
• Identify and champion opportunities for innovation and differentiation through user-centered design across the Fleet Management platform.
• Lead the development and communication of a cohesive design vision for the Fleet Management product area, aligning with the broader company strategy.
• Empower and guide a team of product designers, fostering their professional growth and ensuring high-quality design execution.
• Champion a user-centric design culture across the organization, advocating for user needs and design excellence.
• Establish and evangelize high design standards and best practices throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Lead design projects end to end, from initial strategic framing through detailed execution and iteration.
• Contribute to and evolve our design system and component library to ensure consistency and efficiency across all product touchpoints.
• Collaborate closely with product management, engineering, and operations leadership to define product strategy, prioritize initiatives, and ensure seamless execution.
• Build alignment and articulate a compelling design vision through strong storytelling and presentation skills to various audiences, including executive leadership.
• Drive the evolution and adoption of AI-centric product development, ensuring a scalable, unified, and high-quality user experience across our entire product ecosystem.

What they're looking for

• 10+ years of progressive experience in user experience, interaction, and interface design, with significant experience leading and managing product design teams within a SaaS environment.
• Demonstrated success leading the design of complex web and mobile products in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• A compelling online portfolio demonstrating a strong understanding of user-centered design principles, strategic thinking, leadership in driving design vision, problem-solving abilities, and the successful delivery of impactful user experiences and business outcomes.
• Deep understanding of and proven experience in developing, implementing, and scaling design systems across multiple product lines.
• Proven experience leveraging modern AI-driven practices and tools in the creation of strategy documents, prototypes, pull-requests, and development.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to understand how design decisions impact business outcomes.
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills, with the ability to articulate design rationale and build consensus across diverse stakeholders.
• Experience collaborating effectively with distributed or global teams and navigating different cultural and communication styles.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic and evolving industry undergoing disruption.
• Unbounded curiosity and a passion for solving complex challenges.
• The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with or a strong interest in the fleet management, logistics, product-lead growth, or related industries is a plus.

Benefits, as listed