Lead Product Designer - remote

Jam.gg
Posted 2 years ago
We Work Remotely
Jam.gg is a social and low tech-friendly cloud gaming platform. It has been designed to be accessible to everyone: available directly from a web browser, it does not require a high-speed internet connection to provide a seamless multiplayer game experience. Jam.gg is all about bringing people together through games, with a touch of childhood playfulness and creativity.

We are led by an experienced team of ex Google, Twitter, Amazon, Docker, EA, King and other top tech companies. Jam.gg is a YCombinator company and backed by top VC firms and LEGO Ventures and has already established itself as a new go-to platform for cloud gaming in some countries. 

We're at the stage where we're scaling our Product Department as one of our key units. This is an incredible opportunity to join a booming company of 60+ people in its hyper growth phase. Driven by a strong inclusive culture, we welcome self-starting, fast learning, talented people wishing to start and manage unique, and challenging projects where collaboration (internal and external) is everything.

We are looking for a talented Lead Product Designer to manage our growing Design team.

Location: Entirely remote. The candidate must be based in Europe within +/- 2 hours of CET time zone.
Start date: As soon as possible

What you will be doing:
  • Oversee the whole Design function: product branding, visual styling, user experience research and design for the entire product offering
  • Manage and hire our team of designers, helping them grow and develop their skills and career. Gauge performance of individual contributors, and have candid conversations focused on helping them improve
  • Take feedback and continuously improve yourself as a design leader and to help set team and individual goals
  • Foster collaboration within the product team to fast track our user research workstream, helping design and product beef up our discovery efforts.
  • Help designers get organized, and collaborate with the development team (PMs, POs, Devs, QA)
  • Represent Jam’s design culture both internally and externally
  • Develop design processes to scale design thinking
  • Ensure the team is delivering great design quickly, predictably, and with appropriately defined scope;
  • Remain hands-on to lead specific projects and efforts when needed;
  • Know empathy is the most important design skill you possess;
  • Guide the team towards simple and intuitive solutions for our customers;
  • Recruit new designers and actively participate in the hiring process;
  • Be responsible for all user experiences across the product, and ensure that everything Jam puts out meets our high standard of design.

What we are looking for:
  • Understand technical products, and are excited to take complicated problems and make them simple for our customers to control and manage
  • Scrappy enough to dive into the details and work through particularly tough problems yourself
  • Strong proven experience of hands-on experience of Product Design, especially with a B2C platform, including visual design as well as user research and prototyping
  • Highly collaborative, low-ego approach to design
  • Ready to question assumptions and previous decisions whether they are in the product or in business decisions
  • Some experience of managing a team of designers and/or UX/UI researchers
  • A track record of creating great usable products and of design leadership, including running workshops
  • A portfolio of relevant design work, executed either by yourself or a team that you led, that showcases your ability to ship successful products
  • 6+ years of experience as a hands-on Product Designer working across a wide range of products and driving creative solutions
  • 3+ years of direct experience managing design teams – you are skilled at mentoring and growing designers, and have experience as a people leader
  • Great communication skills
  • A good understanding of the streaming platform industry is a plus

Benefits:
  • Unlimited holiday leave (minimum 5 weeks).
  • Monthly well-being allowance (mental well-being, sports, massage, etc.).
  • Home office allowance calculated on the prorata of the days worked monthly. 
  • Fully remote &flexible working hours.
  • Equal pay policy.
  • Equal maternity and paternity leave (18 weeks) with 1 year seniority and after deduction of the maternity and paternity leave regulations in your country. 
  • Maternity/Paternity subsidy of 3k euros with 1 year seniority.
  • Stock option plan.
  • Health insurance compensation a one-to-one basis, depending on geographical location &company's policy.
  • Additional benefits depending on the geographical location.

We will be pleased to receive your application and wish you the best of luck.