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Product Design Manager

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Location: U.S. Bank, 321, SW 6th Avenue, Downtown, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, 97204, USA Posted: Sep 20, 2022

Job Description

Splash’s mission is to develop the most innovative event technology to help marketers reach and engage their target audiences. From simplifying event creation to capturing attendee insights and measuring event impact, Splash enables teams to efficiently scale event programs and connect event-driven engagement to business results. More than half of the Fortune 500 use Splash to streamline event marketing execution and optimize performance.

What we’re looking for 🔎

We’re looking for a Product Design Leader to empower and support our small, but mighty team of Product Designers. You’ll collaborate with the broader Product Management and Engineering teams to ensure that we are making informed and customer-driven design decisions that result in delivering valuable, consistent, and delightful experiences across the user journey. You will be a strong advocate of human-centered design principles, design thinking frameworks, and design craft. We’ll lean on your expertise to continuing building and maturing Splash's Product Design practice and ensure that it is fully integrated and operating effectively.

In this role, you’ll get to...

  • Empower and support our small, but mighty team of Product Designers. You’ll lead with empathy, candor, respect, and establish trust and psychological safety within the Design team while inspiring teammates through hands-on mentorship.
  • Advocate for Product Design cross-functionally to ensure that its critical role is understood across the organization.
  • Represent product design in critical collaborative exercises where we set priorities and OKRs as a balanced team.
  • Represent product design in executing and iterating upon our cross-functional roadmap process.
  • Provide direction and guidance of product designers' output, promote partnerships and design process. You'll influence product strategy and ensure product design practices are integrated and fully represented in our discovery and delivery process.
  • Partner in elevating design team collaboration process including our weekly work-in-progress meetings, ideation sessions, and design critiques.
  • Continue to expand, refine, and scale the Splash design system. Use systems thinking and craft to elevate our product's design and quality bar.
  • Help us build a mature Product Design practice and culture by continuously improving the Design organization to uphold Splash’s values.
  • Lean on your leadership experience to evolve our recruiting strategy and process

On your first day, we’ll expect you to have...

  • 2-3+ years of experience leading UX/Product Design teams at B2B, SaaS environments.
  • Been a proven design leader at design-focused companies, with the ability to communicate design strategy across the organization.
  • A love for leading and mentoring Product Designers. This include recruiting, training and developing, organization design, and leading by example.
  • A thorough understanding of modern design methods, processes, and tools. You keep up with the industry trends and can assess new tools and techniques.
  • A history of collaborating closely with Engineers and Product Managers.
  • Demonstrated experience in leading a team to effectively break down complex and ambiguous problems and deliver commercially successful consumer-facing products.
  • Be a systems thinker who can analyze interconnected problems and create cohesive solutions from a broad perspective.
  • A high degree of empathy and curiosity about human behavior, backed by user research and insight.
  • You have the ability to think about product strategy and vision at a high level.

What we offer and other fun stuff!

We’re taking a new and improved approach to compensation and the way we #takecare of our Splashers. An approach that makes a lot more sense in this remote world we live in and looking toward the future of work. You can read more here . In a nutshell, we offer...

  • 💰 Competitive base salary and stock options. Our success is your success 📈
  • 💻 Brand new MacBook Pro / Linux and monthly stipend for work-from-home expenses.
  • 🏥 Great healthcare benefits, with paid coverage for you and your family
  • 🌴 Generous PTO, with Splash-specific days off and 2 extra Mental Escape (M.E.) days per month to unplug from work
  • 🗺 Remote first organization
  • A bunch of other great perks/benefits that would make this description too long if we included it 😉

It doesn’t stop there! Although we’re a remote company, we understand the importance of in-person connection. 🛫 We have a yearly company offsite in New York (pending it being safe health-wise) and fun virtual events with the rest of your team and the company (IRL too when it’s safe!).


What’s next?

If you’re interested in joining the team, apply below and you can expect to hear from us soon 🙂. Please give us at least 2 weeks to get back to you. We promise we’re not ignoring you, playing Pokemon all day, or listening to the new J. Cole album on repeat (even though it’s 💯). It just takes a little TLC to go through all the applications and see if there’s a possible fit for you here.

Salary commensurate with experience.

At Splash, we believe that big ideas and great communities come from a team that celebrates diversity of all kinds. We are committed to being an equal opportunity workplace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

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About Splash

Splash is an event marketing automation platform that helps companies engage target audiences in-person.

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