Director of User Experience, Matillion
$99.2-148.8k
Offers equity
Data transformation software
Open for applications
Data transformation software
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$99.2-148.8k
Offers equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the world's data useful.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive background in designing software products in a SaaS B2B environment
- Previous experience designing AI products would be a plus
- Proven leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills
- Ability to cultivate positivity, excitement, and inclusivity within the team
- Excellent communication skills at all stakeholder levels
- Strong persuasion and influencing skills to foster collaboration
- Self-organized with the ability to plan own work and team tasks in line with department priorities
- Proficient in user research techniques: mental models, persona creation, and JTBD framework
- Demonstrated expertise in ideation, sketching, wireframing, user flows, information architecture, and visual/UI design
- Fluent in modern visual design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Lovable, etc
- We are keen to hear from prospective Matillioners, so even if you don't feel you match all the criteria please apply and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch
What the job involves
- As Director of User Experience, you’ll lead the charge in crafting exceptional customer experiences that directly drive Matillion’s business goals. You’ll grow and inspire a talented UX team, setting the standard for design excellence across the company
- Matillion is tackling long-standing challenges in data integration, empowering business users to access and leverage data more effectively. Our sales cycles are complex, with varied use cases that bring both challenges and opportunities — so you’ll need to thrive in an environment where your insights directly influence solutions
- You’ll collaborate closely across teams to define metrics, generate customer insights, and shape processes and culture that keep the customer at the heart of every decision. This is a chance to make a real impact on the product, the company, and the way businesses interact with data
- Drive the definition and communication of the design vision and strategy across Matillion's product suite in collaboration with Product Directors, Managers, and Designers
- Lead cross-collaborative workshops to ensure broad adoption of the UX vision and alignment with commercial goals
- Provide high-level direction, influencing product roadmaps to coordinate design activities across teams for impactful results
- Own the communication of progress updates and design decisions to the broader business and executive team
- Initiate and lead research initiatives, conducting UX market analysis to uncover and validate strategic design opportunities
- Stay informed on industry trends to inform and guide strategic design decisions
- Develop and evolve the design vision and strategy for the dedicated product range, ensuring alignment with business goals
- Define and maintain standards for UX consistency across platforms and products
- Contribute to an evolving design system for pixel-perfect delivery and seamless hand-off to engineers
- Drive cross-team activities to progressively elevate the experience practice at Matillion
- Provide clear direction, task requirements, and feedback to guide and empower designers within the team
- Take charge of design activities, overseeing sprints, workshops, and story mapping to ensure efficient and collaborative processes
- Champion a lean-design approach within innovation work-streams, cultivating a culture that values efficiency and encourages innovative thinking
- Mentor and actively support the professional growth of Designers by providing coaching, guidance, and opportunities for skill development
Our take
In order to make the world’s data more useful, Matillion offers a simple cloud-native data integration and transformation platform. The company turns raw data into an analytics-ready asset to help companies make better decisions.
As organisations search for ways to harness data for business intelligence, the market for Matillion’s offerings is expanding, and the company has assumed a forefront position. Strong reputation for its services has engendered hundreds of large enterprises using Matillion’s solutions including FOX, Sony, Slack and Cisco
2022 VC funding from Snowflake and Databricks - contributing to the company’s valuation of over $1.5 billion - will continue to be used to help teams optimise the impact of their data by cementing more partnerships and developing new products, such as the recent Data Productivity Cloud. Matillion will also adopt the cutting edge Snowflake Native Application Framework for its processes.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2021
$150m
SERIES E
Feb 2021
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $311.6m
Company benefits
- A culture that promotes work life balance
- Access to mental health support
- 25 days holiday
- 5 days paid volunteering leave
- Pension
- Career development with monthly hackdays, access to a Udemy account, Blinkist and much more.
Company HQ
Salford, UK
Leadership
Ed Thompson
(CTO)Previously acted as an IBM Software Consultant for Real Solutions and as an Integration Team Leader for Imtech ICT.
Matthew Scullion
(CEO)Previously acted as Software Division Director for Imtech ICT and as Director for Real Solutions.
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