Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage our core product design team of 3+ product designers, with Product & Engineering leadership, defining and owning user-centered strategy and design execution of new features that will enable better ways to record, edit, and view a Loom video.
• Proactively identify new problems and opportunities for the team that are rooted in user problems, working intimately with user research and data to propose paths forward.
• Collaborate with brand and marketing to ensure user value is conveyed and implemented end-to-end across a user’s journey.
• Possess a working understanding of technical systems to creatively scope prioritization & trade-offs with engineering.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest video trends, consumer products, and technologies, and work alongside the broader Design leadership team to craft our teams' culture, processes, and tools.
• Co-own the evolution and maturity of our Lens Design System alongside our design team.

Requirements

• You believe deeply in the power of video and its ability to transform communication at work.
• You stand on an outstanding portfolio, with presentable case studies showcasing a foundation in typography, interaction and visual design, product sense, and idea generation.
• You are an expert in people development and up-leveling design craft – you have what it takes to grow and empower an incredible design team.
• You are a user advocate to peers, leadership, and company wide to drive a strong level of design thinking, user centricity, and research to influence our product offering & growth.
• You are a coach to others and give and ask for honest and critical feedback – you inspire, not merely direct.
• You bring a wealth of knowledge around interaction design principles, up-to-date trends, and usability heuristics.
• You have a minimum of 8-10 years of experience in Product Design and a minimum of 3-4 years experience of managing Product Designers in organizations that have shipped software to users, partnering with Product and Engineering and Product Marketing teammates.
• You're an excellent communicator, both written and verbal, and you're comfortable managing high-stakes communications.