Product Design Director, Grin
$180-200k
Creator management platform
Job no longer available
Creator management platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$180-200k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help companies build more valuable brands through the power of creator partnerships.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience as a designer working on B2B or SaaS products
- 5+ years managing one or more product design teams
- Experience working with an engineering team following scaled agile and/or scrum methodology
- You are employee centric and love mentoring designers to help unlock their full potential
- Experience incorporating product design in agile product development
- Expert knowledge of design tools such as Figma, Dovetail, Maze, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and other prototyping tools
- Demonstrated experience designing consumer-facing apps/websites and complex user flows across app and web
- A strong ability in visual storytelling, and an innate curiosity about people and their relationship to entertainment
- Expert understanding of user-centered design principles and best practices
- Demonstrated strong eye for executional craft with an obsession of design details with knowing how to make trade offs to get in market to learn
- Demonstrated ability of operational rigor to improve the culture of the team and cross functional partnerships
- A demonstrated portfolio of you/your team working cross-functionally, thinking strategically across the experience and shipping successful experiences in a fast-paced environment
What the job involves
- Drive and lead the vision for our User Experience in product
- Provide thought leadership to develop the right design strategy, and use UX methodologies to bring value to the user and the business
- Hire and manage highly talented product designers through ambiguity, change, and growth
- Co-develop the product strategy with product leadership through identifying opportunities to invest in for long term growth and innovation
- Partner closely with product leadership, engineers, content designers, data analysts to deliver high quality experiences for GRIN customers and users
- Establish operational rigor for design: using principles, frameworks, qualitative and quantitative insights to guide your team for continuous growth of the function and the product
- Act as an internal champion and leader for design and UX
Our take
The creator economy is booming, and DTC brands are increasingly realising that influencers offer unique and effective marketing opportunities. The issue is forging the right influencer partnerships, and managing or monitoring that relationship once it’s established.
Grin is a platform helping DTC brands achieve this. It connects brands to influencers, and offers a broad suite of tools to subsequently help manage business operations like payments, campaigns, analytics, and product shipments.
Grin, however, isn’t the only startup to help brands broker and manage partnerships with creators. The likes of CreatorIQ and Impact also offer comprehensive partnership sourcing, management, and payments platforms, as do Tapfluence and Upfluence - both platforms with top-tier enterprise clients.
Grin, however, got a decent headstart since its founding nearly a decade ago, and has spent it wisely building out a competitive clientele base including Macy’s, SKIMS, and L’Oréal - plus some handsome funding. This leg-up will help it to compete in an increasingly crowded market, and to capitalize on the rapid growth of the US influencer marketing sector.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-35% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jul 2022
$113m
SERIES B
Oct 2021
$110m
SERIES B
Total funding: $258.3m
Company benefits
- 16 Paid vacation days
- 10 Paid sick days
- Paid holidays
- Medical, dental & vision
- 401k program
- Paid parental leave
- $500 home office reimbursement
- Careers 15
- Employee stock option program
- Professional development program
- Tons of growth opportunity
Company HQ
Downtown, Sacramento, CA
Leadership
Brian Mechem
(Board Director & Co-Founder)Previously an IT Intern for the California Secretary of State, before working as Creative Assistant and Account Representative at Meridian Pacific. Subsequently worked as a Digital Marketing Specialist at Rayner Equipment Systems .
Brandon Brown
(Board Chair & Co-Founder)Spent 8 years in various roles at Red Bull, ultimately Field Marketing Manager. Is also an investor in several startups, including Azra Games, Tandym, Ampla, and Relief App.
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