Kinship - Head Of Design - Direct Hire [Remote]

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• ESTIMATED DURATION: 40h/week
• Braintrust Job ID: 7090
• JOB TYPE: Employee Direct Hire
• LOCATION: Remote - US Only (TimeZone: EST, PST/CIST, MST | 3-4 hr overlap)
• SALARY: Our client is looking to pay $150k-$170k /yr

THE OPPORTUNITY
Requirements
NOTE:

• Only applicants who submit a portfolio of design work alongside application will be considered.

Qualifications

• A desire to make a positive impact in the world
• Experience with interpreting experiments or tests and leveraging quantitative data to inform product and design decisions
• A growth mindset, a hunger to learn, and a proactive approach to professional development
• Ability to design lean solutions quickly and efficiently, to validate early directional ideas and drive alignment
• Proven track record of designing and shipping successful digital design experiences, experience with community platforms a plus.
• Expert knowledge of the end to end product design process, demonstrating a command of product strategy, jobs to be done for a given user, journey mapping, wireframing and prototyping, user testing, and high fidelity visuals. Deep experience with Figma.
• Experience leading design teams, including recruiting, managing and mentoring junior designers.
• Proficient in modern design tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and prototyping tools.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to see the big picture while also diving into details.
• The ability to craft beautiful designs and delightful, useful, and usable experiences; you have strengths in visual design, interaction design, user research, and product design
• Proactive project leadership: you can take a problem, break it down, generate a project plan, and execute against that plan
• Expert storytelling: the ability take a complex concept and distill it down to its understandable parts, and communicate it in an engaging and understandable way
• Self-motivated and comfortable with the ambiguity and pace of a startup environment.

What you’ll be working on
We’re looking for a Head of Design to lead design at a stealth startup with significant scope, complexity and responsibility in creative vision, strategy and execution.
You will oversee both brand and product design, but with a heavy focus on product design and user experience. You’ll work closely with teams to understand user needs and behavior, define user-centric solutions, and ship impactful, high quality work. You’ll incorporate your keen understanding of helping new users become successful into your design practice, whether you’re optimizing for user activation, retention, onboarding, or other phases in our users’ journeys.
You’ll collaborate within a multidisciplinary brand, marketing, UX, product management and engineering team - and more - to deliver thoughtful and polished design work that supports user needs while helping us grow.
Responsibilities:

• Manage efficient and inclusive feedback loops and processes
• Build positive, collaborative relationships with direct collaborators and stakeholders, acting as a role model for thoughtful partnership and leadership
• Set the vision for the future of the design org at Kinship, including recruiting, managing and mentoring junior designers
• Lead strategic collaboration and brainstorm sessions to drive creative solutions and alignment
• Work with cross-functional teams (developers, product managers, data scientists, fellow designers, marketing, etc.) to drive a design vision and strategy that meets the needs of our users and our business
• Influence and shape the long term vision and product strategy
• Be a steward of UX and experience quality within the broader organization
• Apply strategic thinking to visualize ideas and concepts and communicate them effectively and compellingly for internal stakeholders, teammates, and leadership
• Scale design efforts to match execution: from rapid, lo-fi prototyping for learning and experimentation, to robust design systems for platform foundations

Apply Now!
C2C Candidates: This role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. If you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around their consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.
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