Lead Product Designer
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Lead Product Designer
📍SYDNEY, Australia
We're hiring a Lead Product Designer to help liberate the power of the web and make businesses across the globe smarter, faster, and more compelling.
You'll play a central role inventing and shaping the end-to-end user experience of Qwilr, and work alongside engineering and product as a true equal.
Why should I apply?
As a Lead Product Designer you will:
Create An Experience
- Be a champion of user experience and ensure we ship innovative, delightful, and extremely useful things (AKA balancing Undeniable Bestness against Velocity With Valour), both through hands-on design work, but also by guiding and mentoring.
- Work with other designers to ensure we maintain a pipeline of "Shaped" (aka designed) projects, ready for build and deliver to our users.
Build Creative Culture
- Be a shaping hand in the creative culture of the product teams and the company as a whole.
- Be a guardian of the Qwilr Brand.
- Together with the founders and the Head Of People, support our Employer Brand.
- Be a player/coach to help other designers run workshops and facilitations, bringing their teams and stakeholders along for inspiring creative journeys.
✨ Things we believe about Product Design...
Who we are looking for
Someone who genuinely loves the craft and practice of design - and because of that they are an:
- Articulate & Incisive Critic: someone who can level up fellow designers through clear critique, ranging from the intuitiveness of a small interaction detail, to the cohesiveness of a whole feature set or product area.
- Doer: someone who comes from a strong and hands-on product design background, who loves creating and designing but will still give away their legos, in order to make a better thing.
- Cross-functional Player: someone who enjoys how design, technology, business, and strategy all co-mingle to make a great product and can calibrate design decisions in light of these cross-functional inputs.
- Culture-Builder: someone who cares about an open creative culture of a company; and (genuinely!) believes great ideas can come from anywhere.
- Story Teller: a compelling storyteller for design, both inside of Qwilr and in public.
About you
Some of the things (but not all!) that we believe will make you successful in this role are:
- You've got great design instincts.
- Either you're a great product designer today, or not so long ago, you were a great product designer.
- You're verbally articulate about design.
- You enjoy creative facilitation and the buzz of figuring things out.
- You've worked in a software product startup; or a company that highly values design.
- You've worked on products with long lifetimes, through multiple iterations.
- You're excited to be hands-on for another year or two - it’s not a chore or a cost :)
Portfolio: You've got design work we can see - it doesn't have to be up to date but we want to see what you have done.
Bonus points if you have worked in the B2B space before (nice, but not essential with strong product design background)
Note: Perhaps you don't feel you meet some of these search criteria perfectly? That's okay; we expect people to grow into different aspects of a role like this. Our philosophy is that if you bring an open mind, humility and a willingness to learn, then the right person will succeed regardless (and there many Qwilroos in the company today, who speak to this philosophy).
Age & Stage
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Different folks have different sweet spots for age and stage of company, so here's a few details about us:
- 1 x Principal Product Designer
- ~75 Qwilroos in total
- Around half in R&D across engineering/design/PM
- Post-Series A, on the way to Series B
- Many millions in ARR
- With thousands of customers, across 50+ countries
🤘Perks
We provide a setup bonus when you join, and an annual budget for further education, conferences and books. We hold retreats twice a year (in normal times) to hang out with your team and chat about our future. Along with a competitive salary, everyone joining the Qwilr journey gets stock options to share in our success.
Our Process
To ensure we're the right company for you, and you're right for us.
01
Share Something With Us
Submit some product design work you've done. We'd also love to see any artefacts on design process, team, business or creativity generally that you've created.
02
Chat with our CEO & Founder.
Spend some time with Dylan, our CEO and Founder (and Qwilr's original Head Of Design :)
03
Collaboration Day
We try to get a feel for what working together might feel like:
- Whiteboard (design something fun together)
- Portfolio or project deep dive (talk about design)
- Team simulation (seek to understand)
- Chat with Hamish (aka our resident design wizard)
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Offer 🎉
If all lights are green and fit feels right, you'll have a final conversation with Dylan and receive an offer to join!