Director of Product Design

November 5

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Ellevation Education

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Education • Technology • English Language Learners • Mission Driven

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

Description

• Over the last 13 years, Ellevation Education has built a thriving business serving the administrators, teachers, and specialists supporting English Learners (ELL) at public schools across the US. • Today, over 1,800 school districts use our software to manage their EL programs. • We are growing our Product Design organization and looking for an experienced, hands-on Director of Product Design to lead the team and help build amazing product experiences across our suite of products. • You will oversee a team of Product Designers, collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and key stakeholders to ensure our products are functional, user-centric, and innovative. • Your role will involve shaping the design vision, establishing best practices, and fostering a culture of creativity and collaboration. • You will be responsible for the overall user experience across our site or connected products and driving growth and adoption of our design system -- Backpack.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Product Design. • 5+ years of experience managing Product Designers with a track record of building inclusive teams, growing talent, and delivering results. • Naturally curious and demonstrate an eagerness to learn from others. • Experience delivering solutions in an Enterprise SaaS environment that create value for decision makers. • Track record of working cross-functionally to drive business outcomes, manage trade-offs, and deliver product solutions in an agile environment. • Natural leader with the ability to work cross-functionally and influence stakeholders. • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions to non-design audience. • Experience conducting user research and usability testing with diverse audiences in the field. • Experimental; loves to test ideas, learn quickly, fail fast, and iterate.

Benefits

• Benefits eligible employees are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. • Employees can enroll in our company's 401(k) retirement plan and receive an employer match up to 50% on the first 7% of your contribution, with pre-tax and Roth options. • Employees have access to flexible paid time off for vacations, sick and disability policy, additional 10 paid company holidays, 2 floating holidays and a winter office closure between Christmas and New Year's. • We provide a generous parental leave benefit, back-up childcare or eldercare, and a variety of other perks to support the health and well-being of our employees.