Senior UX & Product Design Director, Conductor
$150-238k
Equity
Search & content intelligence platform
Job no longer available
Search & content intelligence platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$150-238k
Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To transform marketing into a force for improving people’s lives.
Role
Who you are
- A successful track record of leading a Design team that delivers delightful and cohesive user experiences, preferably in high-growth SaaS environments
- A minimum of 8 years of experience of building and growing a high-performing design team. You value diversity in design experiences and individual autonomy
- Proven experience attracting and mentoring and managing global design talent at all levels
- Pragmatic leader that defines a vision as well as paves the path for delivery
- Understand human-centered design practices, as well as how to leverage quantitative and qualitative data
- Experience developing and evolving design systems in partnership with Engineering
- Foster and encourage innovation, experience with iterative agile development best practices
- Understand challenges of product strategy and execution, ability to challenge the status quo and be the change agent when necessary
- Experience of championing what’s best for the users and customers while balancing the needs of the business
- Effective communicator and empathetic listener that takes feedback and builds a culture around learning
What the job involves
- Own the overall design strategy, design roadmap, and design processes
- Partner with Product Management, Engineering and Marketing leadership to drive design delivery and excellence
- Make key contributions to product strategy, collaborate with company leadership to bring Conductor’s vision to life
- Build and grow a diverse design team, attract the best talent and inspire the team to do their best work
- Support designers with learning goals and career development
- Define and pursue a long term vision for the Design team, proactively anticipating possible future opportunities
- Champion design at the company level to bring design-thinking to all aspects of the organization. Promote a culture of empathy, safety and belonging where all voices are heard
- Effectively collaborate with engineering to evangelize and implement strong design system principles
Our take
The internet is increasingly becoming a walled garden, with content and vital market intelligence hidden away on social media sites, gaming environments and apps. And with increasing regulation in the data protection space, such as GDPR, it can be harder for marketing teams to gain insight into what potential customers exist and what they want.
Conductor exists to change that. Taking advantage of the power of search ("No one ever lies to a search engine", in the words of the company's CEO and co-founder), it utilises data from search traffic to help marketing teams build more effective campaigns. Able to help optimise search results, track keyword rankings and measure performance, it has led to doubling the rate of conversions and site traffic among its customer base, which includes the likes of Citibank, athenahealth and Canon.
With a record of substantial funding and growing revenue from its customer base, Conductor is continuing to invest in its technology, making strategic acquisitions to help it expand. For instance, its acquisition of ContentKing allowed it to add real-time website auditing and monitoring to its platform, and its 2023 acquisition of Searchmetrics is aimed at accelerating its growth in Europe. As the SEO space enters a period of consolidation, it seems that Conductor is well-positioned to remain at the top of the search results.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2021
$150m
LATE VC
Oct 2017
$7m
SERIES D
Total funding: $216.6m
Company benefits
- Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
- Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
- Perks & Discounts
- Professional Development Benefits
- Retirement and Stock Option Benefits
- Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Seth Besmertnik
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously CEO of LinkExperts (market leader in link building for Fortune 500 brands).
Jeremy Duboys
(Founder)With a BA in Media Studies, they went onto become a Founder for many companies such as Professional Taste Printing, Prinly/All Business Cards and most recently RxGo.com/Medication Discount Card LLC.
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