Head of Design - remote

Slite
Posted 3 years ago

We're looking for a Head of Design to lead our talented design team at Slite. 

Are you creative, open-minded, passionate, and able to question the status quo? Do you often step out of the box and find new ways to connect the dots? Do you have experience not only by implementing great solutions yourself but also helping others grow? This might be an opportunity for you.


Note that we are hiring between UTC-8 andUTC+3 time zones. 

💪 What's my mission?


We're looking for a designer who is both comfortable managing a small team of designers, and getting their hands dirty working on both product and communication design.

You will lead and grow our design organization, whilst actively shaping the core capabilities of our web and mobile applications.

Few words on our team today

Our design team consists of 3 designers right now and all of them are working with 1-2 cross-functional squads. 

🤗 Who will I be working with?


You will work with our amazing designers Cyn, Clara and Ana, collaborate with cross-functional development teams, our VP product Mike, CTO Pierre and CEO Chris

📖 What do I need? 

  • Design Leadership. You should be able to operate at all levels of the business. Working alongside the exec team and the PM team, and helping bridge the gap between customer problems and design+engineering execution.
  • Provide mentorship and growth to the design team, and holistically across the company to bring design to life.
  • Design execution. You need to still be able to get stuck in with product design, communication design and potentially even copy.
  • Product experience. You have worked in B2B SaaS product space as a senior level designer.

A few words on Slite
On what we do, check out slite.com and if you're not a Slite user yet, give it a spin 🌀

More importantly, why we’re building Slite: we help teams work in more thoughtful manners, based on written culture, information transparency, asynchronous collaboration. And because of that we unlock remote for them.

We work by these principles and evangelize on them.

Why join Slite?

  • Work with talented &passionate people with diverse experiences and backgrounds
  • Make a dent: we strive to shift the way people collaborate and organize at a large scale, potentially impacting millions of people
  • Feel your impact: Slite is still early stage, everything we do matters and your impact is critical
Benefits
  • 🤩 Competitive salary and equity
  • 🏝 5 Weeks PTO + 11 French Holidays 🇫🇷
  • 📚 Buy any book policy
  • 🖥️ Remote setup: coworking or at-home setup, your pick. Slite covers your expenses.
  • 🌈 We go on team offslites every 4 months when possible and have budget for teams to meet in a comfortable location for them
  • 💻 Macbook: a new laptop for a new job

Diversity of talents, opinions and backgrounds does matter to us. We are actively working at diversifying our team, that’s one of the reason we chose to be remote and create a writing tool that is used in diverse locations and by a lot of different users. If you don’t match the people on the team picture, please do not hesitate to apply or contact us!