Director, Ecommerce Product Design

The role

You will lead a small team of product designers and researchers to shape the simplisafe.com experience. You will set a design vision, manage design systems, and integrate AI tools into the design workflow.

What you will do

• Define and champion a vision for the simplisafe.com experience
• Partner with Growth, Product, Engineering, and Analytics leaders on product strategy
• Own design system strategy for Ecommerce
• Identify, pilot, and scale AI tools and workflows across design and research
• Build, coach, and grow a team of product designers and researchers
• Partner with engineering to ensure design and code stay in lockstep
• Ensure design decisions are informed by user research and data
• Align with Brand to ensure visual and experiential consistency

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of digital product design experience
• 5+ years leading and growing in-house product design and research teams
• Experience managing managers or senior individual contributors
• Proven experience building, scaling, or governing a design system
• Practical experience integrating AI tools into a design workflow
• Track record of setting a design vision and influencing product strategy at the leadership level
• Track record of producing data-informed, effective UX in an experimentation-centered environment
• Track record of attracting, retaining, and up-leveling high-performing design teams
• Highly skilled in Figma
• Fluent with modern design and prototyping tools, including AI-assisted design tools
• Familiarity with WCAG accessibility standards
• Excellent verbal and written communication and storytelling skills

Nice to have

• Significant experience in D2C/ecommerce at a company where the majority of revenue came through the website
• Experience partnering through a CMS or front-end replatforming

Benefits

• Comprehensive total rewards package
• Annual bonus program
• Equity
• Medical benefits
• Retirement benefits
• Lifestyle benefits
• Free SimpliSafe system and professional monitoring for your home
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

About the company

SimpliSafe is a high-tech home security company with a no ego culture of collaboration and innovation.