[Remote] Staff/Lead Product Designer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thistle is a company focused on improving health and sustainability through nutritious meal delivery services. The Staff/Lead Product Designer will collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure a high-quality user experience while developing scalable design solutions and managing a future design team.ResponsibilitiesThink holistically about complex systems, empathize with customers, and understand business objectives to create compelling and effective product experiencesDevelop user-centered design solutions based on research, member insights, and industry best practicesPartner with product to help define and execute research initiatives to guide the direction of your design work as well as inform business strategyPresent design concepts and clearly communicate design intent through design specs and presentation documentsArticulate, negotiate, and refine design requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers to arrive at the best design solutionsOwn and iterate on our design system and advocate for scalable design solutions across product, brand, and marketingCollaborate with our marketing team to ensure brand consistency and evolve our brand design system to be even more resonant and differentiatingWork cross-functionally with product, data, marketing, engineering, and operations partners to represent the design function, facilitate design discussions, and give feedback in planning and product channelsOn Day 1, you’ll be the single member of our product design team. But when we expand the size of our product design team, you will: Build and manage our product design team. Hire the best, lead with a well-communicated vision, provide supportive coaching, and guide individuals along deliberate career development pathsYou’ll be a player-coach, directly owning and executing projects while also being a people managerSkillsExperience in product design with a strong portfolio showcasing product design work and thinkingAbility to think holistically about complex systems and empathize with customersUnderstanding of business objectives to create compelling and effective product experiencesExperience developing user-centered design solutions based on research and member insightsAbility to partner with product teams to define and execute research initiativesStrong presentation skills to communicate design concepts and intentExperience articulating, negotiating, and refining design requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineersAbility to own and iterate on design systems and advocate for scalable design solutionsExperience collaborating with marketing teams to ensure brand consistencyAbility to work cross-functionally with product, data, marketing, engineering, and operations partnersExperience in building and managing a product design team, including hiring and coachingCompany OverviewThistle is a food and juice company that delivers fully-prepared, plant-forward meals to the doorsteps of its customers. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.thistle.co.