Director of Design, CircleCI
$243-303k
Continuous integration and deployment services
Job no longer available
Continuous integration and deployment services
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$243-303k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To manage change so software teams can innovate faster, empowering technology-driven organizations to do their best work – and making engineering teams more productive and innovative.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires a leader with a deep understanding of design principles, a passion for user-centric design, and the ability to inspire and mentor a team of talented designers
- 10+ years of experience in designing user experiences and interaction design for rich, interactive consumer or enterprise applications, with a minimum of 5 years managing and leading design and research teams
- Thrives in a fast-paced product environment
- Experience in building and designing tools that are productivity enhancements for teams, preferably for the developer ecosystem
- A proactive problem solver with a strong bias towards action and curiosity to go beyond the job description
- A proven track record in bringing a user focus to high-impact, high-visibility projects
- A respected people manager with high EQ, and excellent storytelling and communication skills
- A strong portfolio showcasing problem-solving skills at a large scale and high design caliber
- Ability to lead the design of complex systems of interactions across web, mobile, and API touchpoints
- Ability to quickly grasp and distill highly complex user design issues into clean, understandable solutions
- Ability to lead, coach, inspire, and motivate a team to create and deliver truly remarkable work
- Ability to attract and recruit exceptional talent
- Demonstrated understanding of user-centered design skills, disciplines, and principles as well as an eye for subtle detail
- Experience facilitating workshops and brainstorming sessions
What the job involves
- As the Director of Design at CircleCI, you will lead our design team and shape our overall creative vision and design strategy to deliver developers a first-class, consumer-grade, user experience
- You will work closely with product management, engineering, marketing, and other key stakeholders to create an exceptional experience that aligns with our business goals
- Direct the product design, visual design, and UX Research design functions to align the talent, tools, and processes with the business goals and product strategy
- Bring a first-class, consumer-grade, user experience to developers
- Use your knowledge of best practices to lead a design team across the full product life cycle, from user research to requirements refinement to prototyping and ultimately to production product
- Work with Engineering, Product Management, and Marketing to translate business strategies into actionable products and design deliverables
- Become deeply immersed in the developer ecosystem and understand developer problems
- Understand and measure the metrics that drive business success and the impact of the design team's work
- Practice a highly efficient, iterative design process to support the vision
- Get hands-on by rapidly developing user flows, wireframes, mockups, etc. as needed
- Attract, inspire, mentor, and grow top design talent while building a culture that elevates performance
- Improve the operational model to increase team effectiveness
- Create a culture of craft, quality, and execution by inspiring and leading product designers across experience levels
Our take
Engineering has seen the rise of agile, containerisation and DevOps over the last few years. As a result, the idea of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) has grown to be an important part of the engineering space. CircleCI is one company that taps into this field, offering a lightweight and open service.
There are now a lot more companies that have a culture of continuous delivery. CircleCI specifically helps automate all the steps that occur between the time developers make changes to the code and when the application gets in front of the customer. The company has a strong tailwind from this macro trend and their product is loved by engineers, putting them in a strong place to build a strong business.
Services in the sector have grown constricted and cost-heavy, but in 2022, CircleCI debuted a free tier service for engineering teams in a move away from this. By offering flexibility across an increased number of major platforms, including Docker, Windows, and MacOS, the company works towards its ultimate aim to empower technology-driven organisations.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2021
$100m
SERIES F
Apr 2020
$100m
SERIES E
Total funding: $315m
Company benefits
- Remote-first company
- Home office stipend
- Unlimited PTO
- Generous parental leave
- Health benefits that can cover employees and dependents up to 100%
- Quarterly wellness days, a free Calm subscription, wellness reimbursement, and Cleo for new parents
- Opportunities to learn new skills, including project-based learning and presentations from our colleagues
- Udemy for on-demand learning, and an annual stipend for personal development outside of CircleCI
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jim Rose
(CEO)Joined CircleCI as COO. Serial entrepreneur, founding Distiller (acquired by CircleCI) and Copious.
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