Position: VP of Design / Head of Design
Company: DevsData
Category: Design
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

VP of Design — 100% REMOTELY

💰 Great stack based on your financial expectations + equity
🌎 100% REMOTELY
🕦 Full time, long-term permanent, B2B contract
👀 35 days of paid holidays + 2 weeks of sick pay
🌴 Gibraltar-based company that provides a bitcoin wallet combined with a cold storage vault and a bitcoin-based debit card

We’re looking for a visionary leader to design the future of digital Banking, as the top product design leader for our digital platform strategy. You’ll lead and grow our top-notch in-house Design studio and mentor other designers across all practice areas. The work you lead will enable Bank to launch better products more quickly — and it will positively influence the lives of customers across the world.

The VP of Design will help define a best-in-class user experience for our product, partnering with Product Managers, UXR, engineering and fellow designers. This is a role for a lead designer with extensive experience crafting creative and usable interfaces with a strong focus on client needs in a collaborative environment. Your role would be to also inspire and elevate the other members of the design team by providing guidance and mentorship, setting an example by following best practices, bringing innovative technological ideas, and defining and ensuring a design process is followed.

Requirements:

- Soundtrack record of leading and managing creative teams
- Solid experience driving UX Design for digital products
- Experience designing high-touch customer servicing interactions, ideally for both end clients and customer service representatives.
- Exceptional aesthetic judgment and demonstrated ability to recognize and promote excellent design that furthers users’ goals in an elegant, intuitive way
- An analytical mind, able to balance business and customer needs and constraints
- We want someone who has a keen interest in the behavioural psychology of users.
- Experience in working as part of multi-functional squads, and agile workflows to deliver features at a very fast pace.
- You’ll need to possess not just exceptional product design skills, but the ability to implement strategic and conceptual thinking as well.
- You have a people-focused design mentality and want to design and craft products/features that truly have a meaningful impact.

Responsibilities:

- Drive thought leadership in design thinking & user experience design across several teams across all the Bank
- Lead a talented team of user experience designers and researchers to create “best in world” platform capabilities to be used across all our digital products
- Collaborate with Product and UXR on the ongoing discovery, to understand client attitudes, behaviours, and needs
- Be an advocate for end-users and their needs, expectations & pain-points
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team to conceptualize solutions
- Take into account existing insights, technical constraints, and business needs, to produce data-informed solutions that consider problems from multiple angles.
- Effectively communicate product design ideas to cross-functional teams, business stakeholders, and senior leadership
- Empathise with users through testing and persona development & reviews
- Build functional prototypes to validate and test your designs
- Track changing user preferences and adapt & improve existing designs.
- Identify new product improvement opportunities by understanding current user frustrations and unmet needs

WHY WORK WITH US?

- Make the change and Improve lives through cutting-edge technology
- Work 100% remotely from anywhere in the world.
- Feel the autonomous work culture and work within flexible hours
- We offer 35 days of paid leave, 2 weeks of sick leave and equity
- Apply your expertise to meaningful work every day
- Collaborate, learn, and grow with a high-performance team
- Referral bonus: 1 000 USD if we hire an engineer based on your recommendation