Head of Design
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Description
You will lead and manage a multidisciplinary design team across digital products, brand, marketing, and physical experiences. You will optimize organizational structure, processes, resource allocation, quality standards, delivery timelines, and budgets. You will work with product, marketing, and other departments to build a scalable, accountable design function.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a multidisciplinary design team across UX/UI, web, marketing, social media, events, merchandise, physical cards, and packaging.
- Own team performance, delivery timelines, quality standards, and budget.
- Build an organizational structure with clear roles, responsibilities, and accountability.
- Oversee resource allocation, workload distribution, hiring, and team development.
- Ensure collaboration between design, product, marketing, and other departments.
- Audit team structure, processes, workload, competencies, and costs.
- Reorganize and optimize the design function.
- Establish workflows, planning, prioritization, and quality-control processes.
- Identify skill gaps and inefficiencies, and optimize budget allocation.
Requirements
- 8–10+ years of design-management experience.
- Experience leading large multidisciplinary teams of 15–20+ people.
- Experience building, restructuring, and scaling design organizations.
- Experience managing digital product, marketing, branding, and physical product design disciplines.
- People management skills, including hiring, performance management, and developing team leads.
- Resource planning, process optimization, operational efficiency, and budget management expertise.
- Experience establishing accountability, quality standards, and performance metrics.
- Leadership, organizational, and cross-functional communication skills.
Benefits
- Remote work from anywhere in the world, excluding Russia and Belarus, with a schedule aligned with GMT+3.
- Unlimited Paid Time Off.
- Birthday presents.
- Compensation for necessary technical devices.
