[Remote] Staff/Lead Product Designer (63362)

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. They are seeking a Staff/Lead Product Designer to work with product and engineering teams to ensure a high-quality user experience and create scalable design solutions across the organization.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 managerSkills10+ years of relevant experience in user experience design in a product-driven companyDemonstrated ability to lead the conception and prototyping of brand new products as well as feature enhancements, all with a user-centered design processYou have a user and data-informed design mentality. You are constantly looking to hone your team's instincts through user feedback and data insightsDeep experience conceiving of, planning, and executing user research projectsStrong ability to communicate in writing to concisely share insights and effectively lay out a case for a course of actionExperience designing for both web and mobile. Familiarity with unique technical and usability constraints when designing for desktop and mobileExperience hiring and directly managing other designers is a plusCompany 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.