Product Design Director

We are hiring a Design Director to lead the Network team and help craft the future of inter-organization collaboration at Slack.

Product Design Directors serve a critical role at Slack: they elevate the health, growth, and development of their team, as well as care for the overall business. They have a passion for design excellence expressed through thoughtful creative direction, direct contribution, and leading by example.

Slack has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture. We appreciate design leaders who are curious, humble, think deeply, speak clearly, and thrive on collaboration and feedback. If this sounds like a good fit for you, send us a nice hello with links to your work and experience.

What you will be doing:

• Leading a remote-first team of Product Designers focused on expanding and improving the Slack Connect product area.

• Working with product, engineering, and other cross-functional partners to drive design vision and strategy. Help turn business objectives into customer centered problems and steer team strategy.

• Designing, guiding, and driving collaboration processes for your team.

• Setting a high bar for quality and help teams ship with that quality, without compromising velocity.

• Meeting regularly with designers to provide feedback on project progress.

• Coaching, mentoring, and providing career development for team members.

• Monitoring work satisfaction and happiness of your team and leading activities to maintain high levels of team morale.

• Ensuring that projects are properly staffed based on scope, skills and timing.

• Define and drive design hiring goals. Recruit and interview new Product Designers, review incoming candidates, and actively improve our design hiring process.

What you should have:

• 2+ years of experience in a role managing a team of designers; 5+ years of product design experience (experience with B2B software products a plus).

• Extensive and relevant experience working across mobile and desktop platforms.

• A demonstrable foundation in typography, interaction design, visual design, and design ideation.

• Experience leading and collaborating with diverse teams in a dynamic, rapid growth environment.

• Experience leading design studios, design sprints, team brainstorming and ideation exercises.

• Experience leading and collaborating in a remote-first environment.

• A nuanced understanding of diverse and inclusive hiring practices.

• Excellent written communication skills and comfort working in an async text-based environment (As you can imagine, we use Slack quite a bit internally).

• Experience collaborating with and presenting to C-Suite leadership.