Head of Product Design

As our Head of Product Design, you’ll lead the product design team, and partner closely with company leadership to drive our goals and deliver world-class products. You’ll help grow and mentor a team of designers, and adjust our design process as we scale. This role reports to Blockstream’s Chief Product Officer.

What You’ll Be Doing (Responsibilities):

• Lead a team to oversee and execute interaction & visual design, user research, and prototyping in pursuit of developing intuitive, user-friendly products that delight users and align to our strategic objectives
• Partner with product managers and other stakeholders to identify and articulate new opportunities, clarify user problems and inspire the direction of our work
• Channel the voice of our users. Organize qualitative and quantitative research to identify gaps and usability issues, to help the company better understand its users, and to validate possible solutions
• Collaborate with engineers to work through technical feasibility and ensure design details are clear and captured by the implementation
• Utilize techniques to measure or quantify effective design choices, and employ data to inform decisions or strengthen a product narrative

What We Look For In You (Required Qualifications):

• 10+ years of experience in a design related field, including managing and growing a team of designers
• Proven experience transforming customer needs and business goals into iterative, execution-friendly plans with appropriate resources
• In-depth knowledge of design practices, research methodologies, and current design tools
• Ability to present and rationalize decisions to internal and external stakeholders
• Comfort with the pace, scrappiness and dynamic environment within a growing startup
• Have successfully supported, coached and scaled teams across Product Design, User Research, and User Experience
• Experience designing products with complex technical features and high security standards
• Understanding of Bitcoin or blockchain-related technology
• Passion to learn and to create a learning environment where designers grow and expand skill-sets, techniques, and tools (This is Bitcoin - no one knows everything about it, We grow and learn together)