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Job Details

We are hiring a Design Director to lead the team charged with adoption and monetization efforts within the larger Expansion group.

Product Design Managers serve a vital 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 team of Product Designers focused on adding new internal and external users to Slack from within the product and driving commitment to Slack via trial programs, conversion to paid customers, and purchase experience
• Working with product and engineering and other cross-functional partners to drive design vision and strategy. Help turn business objectives into customer centered problems and steer team strategy.
• Creating flexible and scalable frameworks and guidelines for rapid experimentation
• Designing, guiding and driving collaboration processes
• Setting a high bar for quality and help teams ship with that quality, without compromising velocity
• Meeting regularly with designers to provide and gather feedback on project progress
• Coaching, mentoring and providing career development, work satisfaction and happiness to your team.
• 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 growth 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
• A nuanced understanding of diverse and inclusive hiring practices
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Slack has a positive, diverse, and supportive culturewe look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. In our work together we aim to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, collaborative. If this sounds like a good fit for you, why not say hello?

Slack is registered as an employer in many, but not all, states. If you are not located in or able to work from a state where Slack is registered, you will not be eligible for employment.Visa sponsorship may not be available in certain remote locations.

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