Director, Head of Design, Minted
$163-274.3k
Salary varies depending on location. This role is eligible for an annual performance bonus and stock options
Design marketplace connecting people with artists
Posted today
Design marketplace connecting people with artists
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$163-274.3k
Salary varies depending on location. This role is eligible for an annual performance bonus and stock options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To uncover the world’s best creative talent.
Role
Who you are
- A Bachelor’s or Graduate degree in user experience, design, or other related field
- 10+ years experience in user experience and design with expert knowledge of mobile and web design principles, information architecture, user-centered design and design thinking
- 7+ years management experience with a track record of hiring and developing strong individual contributor UX and UI designers & researchers
- Innate understanding of consumer-focused digital experiences across site, mobile, and in-store represented by direct experience in omni-channel retail e-commerce
- Strong retail insights and an understanding of how and why consumers use Minted products, informed by a personal passion for shopping or collecting design or fashion goods
- A clean, polished design aesthetic coupled with a passion for pixel perfection, consistency, and usability
- Appreciation of standards; proven methods and tools to enforce brand identity and consistency across all projects
- A portfolio showcasing a proven track record in creating consumer-focused UX that solves complex design problems providing impact to customers and the business
- An ability to prioritize in a fast paced environment and meet changing deadlines and priorities on multiple simultaneous projects
- Deep experience designing and building organizational structure, systems, and processes to scale the UX function, in a large (1000+ employees) consumer internet company
- A strategic, consumer-centric thinker. You understand consumer segments deeply and intuitively, and you naturally gravitate to the consumer when answering questions or considering strategies
- Results oriented. You are most comfortable in work environments which are outcome-oriented and merit-based, and are highly motivated by goal accomplishment
- A passionate customer advocate. You are ready to put the customer first and influence others across the company to think similarly
- Receptive to change. You are flexible, adaptable, innovative, and open in response to competitive pressure and market change
- A collaborative thinker. You enjoy an environment that has been structured for collaboration and interdependencies
- A systems thinker. You intuitively understand interdependencies, ask follow-up questions, and drive to solutions that balance the success of initiatives across revenue, quality, brand, and cost goals
- A collaborative people leader. You know how to work effectively with your functional-executive peers and their organizations, advocating for your category, holding colleagues accountable and leading the entire cross-functional team to success. People follow you, even when they don’t report to you
What the job involves
- Minted is looking for a Head of Design to oversee product design and user research. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role where you will influence product strategy, lead a high performing team, and charter a user experience that delights our customers and artists
- Minted sells stationary, art, and home goods. And our mission is to enable consumers to communicate with friends and family by personalizing designs for life’s key moments: holidays, weddings, home ownership, babies and kids. This leader oversees this highly personal experience
- Reporting to the SVP of Product, this is a key leadership role at Minted with broad ownership of the desktop and mobile web experience for the Minted consumer and the artist community. In this role, you will create a user-centered, consistent and intuitive user experience across all user touchpoints
- In addition to an impeccable eye for design, a customer-centric research approach and ruthless insistence on elevated user experiences, you are a highly collaborative and results-oriented leader capable of driving change and delivering experiences that are measurable and drive higher conversion, retention and satisfaction for consumers and artists
- Define Minted’s overall UX strategy and vision for a world-class mobile and desktop experience ensuring that it is tightly aligned with Minted’s broader omni-channel brand and product strategy
- Articulate and evangelize your vision, translating into an actionable roadmap that you drive in collaboration with cross-functional partners in Brand, Product Marketing, PM, and Eng
- Design, document and evangelize a cohesive set of design principles, patterns, and guidelines that can be utilized everywhere to ensure consistency of experience
- Articulate a strong rationale for these guidelines and partner with the PM and Engineering teams to ensure adoption of a robust and flexible Design System and Component Library
- Know our customer and represent her needs and her voice in the product and user experience design process
- Influence and mentor across the organization, focusing on coaching and developing cross-functional partners, brand marketing and product designers, product managers, engineers, and QA on UX best practices
- Review all UX design created by the UX team and outside vendors to ensure intuitive UX, achievement of business goals and consistency with UX and usability guidelines
- Develop and design an effective organizational structure reflecting ownership and responsibilities for the User Experience team that scales with Minted’s growing business
- Recruit, hire, manage and mentor top digital UX and UI designers on the team
- Develop high quality standards with design firms and independent contractors to have a “bench” of resources to support flexing as needed against projects
- Define UX and UI processes with key measurable metrics that achieve both quality and rapid time to market; partner with other departments to optimize and improve efficiencies across teams
Our take
Minted is a design marketplace, sourcing creative content from a global community of artists, using technology and crowdsourcing to give consumers access to independent creatives unavailable through traditional retailers.
With the success of sites like Etsy enabling consumers to buy direct from artisans, Minted sets itself apart by holding monthly art and design challenges which are open for both submission and voting. The ‘crowd’ curates Minted’s product selection by rating products, and Minted utilizes analytics to evaluate votes. The winning designs go into production which is taken care of by Minted's fulfillment house and the designers receive a 6%-10% cut of the sales.
Its unique ‘design by upvoting’ business model has led to almost $300m in funding, with backing from Benchmark Capital and IDG Ventures. As contests draw in more designers, the company is looking to expand beyond Minted.com and into physical retail, finding new ways to use the designs and creating fresh income streams for themselves and their artists.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2018
$208m
SERIES E
Oct 2014
$38m
SERIES D
Total funding: $297.1m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mariam Naficy
(Executive Chairman & Co-Founder)Previously served as the company's Co-CEO. Previously Member of the Board Of Directors at Medium, Yelp, Polyvore. Founder & co-CEO at Eve.com for 2 years and Vice-President and General Manager at The Body Shop for 3 years.
Melissa Kim
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously Associate at The Boston Consulting Group for 2 years and Manager - Corporate Strategy at eBay also for 2 years.
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