Head of Product Design

The role

You will develop and grow the product design team and oversee the design of the product. You will manage design managers, product designers, content designers, and user researchers to create end user experiences.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a team of product designers, researchers, and content designers.
• Refine and lead the standard for design processes at Glean.
• Mentor and develop the skills, talents, and careers of designers and design managers.
• Collaborate with leaders in Product and Engineering to ensure product areas hit metrics.
• Craft a compelling long term design strategy and vision.
• Build a collaborative and safe culture for designers.
• Direct work as necessary by rolling up sleeves.
• Source, interview, hire, and onboard for the team.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience coaching and managing performance of teams in Product Design, Content Design or UX Writing, and UX Research.
• Strong portfolio of product work showcasing visual and interaction design craft.
• Hands-on, collaborative, low-ego leader with high ownership and drive.
• Experience sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding for your team.
• Experience with organizational planning and managing lean teams with multiple priorities.
• Consistent track record of managing people and developing talent.
• Mastery of the craft of design including visual and interaction design, human-centered design practices, research methodologies, and design tools.
• Strong experience partnering with PM, Engineering, and Marketing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience defining and influencing product strategy and understanding the application of data and metrics in product design.

Nice to have

• Experience doing that at a high growth or later-stage tech company in B2B, including experience managing managers.
• Experience building distributed teams across time zones (e.g. Palo Alto and Bangalore)

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage
• Generous time-off policy
• Opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan
• Home office improvement stipend
• Annual education and wellness stipends
• Regular events
• Healthy lunches daily

Before you apply

• You'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion as part of the interview process.

About the company

Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. It provides an infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across an entire business.