Director of Product Design- Spire Digital
Spire Digital, a subsidiary of Kin + Carta and award-winning 21-year-old custom software development firm in Denver, is seeking a Director of Product Design to lead the Product Design team. Recently a recipient of several best-place-to-work awards, Spire Digital offers an open-minded, fast-paced, exciting culture of passionate individuals working together to build awesome software and digital products.
What You Will Be Doing as Director of Product Design:
The Director of Product Design at Spire Digital is an advanced practitioner that leads design efforts on larger projects and mentors Product Designers across the organization. It’s their mission to continuously nurture and improve the design process while having a disciplined focus on outputs that fundamentally improve our clients’ businesses. They’re a key contributor to strategic initiatives, and report to the VP, Product Design.
Your Profile Includes:
- You have about 7+ years of experience designing digital apps and design systems, shipping products, and collaborating with a cross-functional product team.
- You’re an advanced practitioner with a strong portfolio consisting of products you’ve designed and lead.
- You enjoy mentoring Product Designers and take professional development seriously.
- You’re a bold thinker who loves to define the strategy and create an inspiring vision for the team and stakeholders.
- You’re introspective, thoughtful, and have excellent communication skills. You’re able to influence stakeholders through data and storytelling.
- You provide thoughtful and empowering feedback in design crits- referencing quality standards and available data.
- You’re comfortable leading and facilitating workshops and design sprints with larger teams.
- You are good at working with people, whether it’s designers, developers, product owners, or clients- and always treat these fellow humans with respect.
- Your great time management skills enable you to provide support on many projects at once.
- You have experience defining OKRs or KPIs for product and/or design teams.
- You’re willing to assist other Product Designers with traditional IC work if needed.
- You’re a thought leader and a key driver of process improvements.
- You have the self-awareness to know what you don’t know, and often take it as a personal challenge to figure those things out. You ask a ton of questions because you’re curious.
About Spire Digital
Spire Digital is a Denver-based digital product development firm that transforms business through design and technology. For over 20 years, we've provided strategic consulting, user experience design, custom software development, DevOps, digital marketing, and staff augmentation to the world's top companies. Whether web, mobile, IoT, wearables, AR/VR, AI, or blockchain, Spire helps startups and enterprises succeed at the art of innovation. Spire's services are geared toward the product and innovation needs of our clients, resulting in business-critical applications that seize opportunities to increase revenues, operational efficiencies, market share, and customer satisfaction. AT&T, Berkshire Hathaway, DaVita, Dish Network, Experian, Inspirato, Lockheed Martin, MillerCoors, Rent-A-Center, Starz, USDA, US Navy, Western Union, and many others rely on Spire’s expertise to develop industry-leading digital products that further overall business objectives. Spire has also worked with more than 400 technology startups. https://www.spiredigital.com/
About Kin + Carta
Kin + Carta exists to make the world work better by delivering transformative digital growth for our clients. As a digital transformation firm, we apply creativity, data, and technology to help clients invent, market, and operate new digital products and services that turn prospects into customers, and customers into advocates. Kin + Carta seamlessly integrates the strategic consulting, software engineering, and marketing technology needed to help businesses 'Make It Happen'.
Consultants at Kin + Carta have the opportunity to: engage with the most cutting-edge emerging technologies, solve difficult problems for some of the world’s biggest companies, and work within a breadth of industries.
Kin + Carta is headquartered in Chicago and London with offices across four continents. Our culture and shared ways of working unite us globally, but it’s our diverse specialisms, our connections, and our courage that makes our firm a recognized best place to work.
We welcome our Kin to show up as their full selves every day. Because this is so important to us, Kin + Carta is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. If you need accommodations at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.