Director of Product Design and User Research

At CV-Library we have a clear vision, we want to help the world to work by matching job seekers and businesses on the global platform they need to succeed.  

Our mission is also clear for all our team, we help people find jobs and develop their careers and we help businesses find the talent they need to succeed. This also applies to our own businesses within the CV-Library group too! 

We ensure that every piece of work we do at CV-Library ensures we can achieve this, it makes us who we are! We have a fun and vibrant culture where results are expected, recognised, and rewarded. Our people make us who we are, we also happen to be a very talented bunch! 

Your role in our Mission:

As a hands-on Director of Product Design, you'll lead and grow a team of talented Product Designers who work across our portfolio of platform and customer product experiences. You'll set the strategy and design standards; create order out of uncertainty. You will encourage the team and the wider organisation to join you in your pursuit of uncompromising product quality through coaching, mentoring and strong communication - becoming the face and voice of User Experience Design for CV Library. Your work will touch millions of end-users.

• Lead, grow and encourage an impactful team to deliver market leading product design solutions.
• Develop and drive adoption of design standards, compelling user experience vision, strategy and success metrics.
• Collaborate and foster positive relationships with product, engineering and go-to-market teams to ensure design continuity across the business.
• Be a role model and mentor for outstanding visual and interaction design practice and a champion for design thinking.
• Use both qualitative and quantitative data and insight to drive design solutions.
• Lead and facilitate idea generation and evaluation with partners, and mentor others in doing so.
• Guide the design of components and patterns; drive optimisations for flexibility, re-use/scale, usability, performance, brand distinction and visual appeal.
• Develop persuasive communication materials and storytelling techniques that establish and build understanding, confidence and long term trust.
• Make effective use of design feedback and guide others on the best approaches for clear, concise, useable and organised communication 

Requirements

• 8+ years experience in Product Design, with 2+ years in a Head of Design or Design leadership position in a high growth B2B or B2C business.
• A proven background in delivering world class business or consumer facing products  with a portfolio of UX-focused work samples for web and mobile applications.
• Experience building and managing product design teams with the ability to balance leadership and hands-on requirements, leading by example throughout the product design and development lifecycle.
• You relentlessly strive for ‘better' and are comfortable introducing new ways of working, identifying industry and market trends and best practice to enable development of outstanding user-centric products. 
• A history of successful collaboration with technical and commercial partners.
• Strong core visual and interaction design skills with a focus on prototyping, front-end presentation technology, and user-centered design methods.
• Solid understanding of accessible design.