Director of Design, Calendly
New Products
$268.8-369.6k
+ Top Performer Bonus program + Equity
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
Automated appointment scheduling
Job no longer available
Automated appointment scheduling
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$268.8-369.6k
+ Top Performer Bonus program + Equity
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To provide broad and deep support for various meeting scenarios, and make scheduling easier and more efficient.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of experience designing and delivering high-quality design work and impactful product experiences, including meaningful time in leadership roles
- 3+ years of people management and design leadership experience, including hiring, supporting, and growing empowered creative teams
- Experience co-owning and scaling a product area with measurable customer and business impact alongside Product and Engineering partners
- Proven ability to set product and user experience vision based on customer needs and translate strategy into execution
- Strong executive communication skills and experience influencing senior stakeholders
- Experience in product-led B2B or B2C environments; SaaS experience preferred
- Experience working in complex systems and multi-product environments
- Experience designing AI-driven product experiences and using AI effectively in the design process is a plus, but not required
- Authorized to work lawfully in the United States of America, as Calendly does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time
What the job involves
- Calendly is evolving into a multi-product platform that helps individuals and businesses orchestrate work more effectively
- As a Design Director, you will co-lead a Product Group and the broader Design Team to play a pivotal role in shaping strategy, vision, and execution
- This is a leadership role accountable for both user outcomes and business outcomes within your Product Group
- You will partner closely with the Director of Product and Director of Engineering to define direction, set ambitious goals, make user-focused decisions, design easy-to-use products that create value for customers, and ensure high-quality execution
- You will also be a major contributor to the overall design organization, elevating design standards, fostering a healthy creative community, and growing and supporting a high-performing, impactful team
- This role requires strategic creativity, customer focus, collaborative leadership, operational rigor, and thoughtful people leadership
- Co-lead a Product Group in partnership with Product and Engineering Directors, defining and executing on vision, strategy, and roadmap, based on customer needs and insights
- Own and deliver measurable user outcomes and business results for your product area
- Set and drive a clear design vision that ensures cohesive, high-quality, end-to-end user experiences across the Product Group
- Provide clear, actionable feedback and coaching to designers that improves usability, quality, and design decision-making
- Ensure teams conduct meaningful research and use customer insights and data to inform product strategy and decisions, driving toward measurable outcomes
- Co-lead the Design Team by hiring, coaching, and developing a diverse, high-performing group of designers, actively supporting career growth and engagement
- Drive adoption and improvement of the design process and R&D operating model to increase quality, usability, cohesion, and customer impact
- Use compelling design storytelling to influence stakeholders, align leaders, and advocate for customers at the team, product group, and company levels
Our take
Calendly is a cloud-based scheduling service that is straightforward to use. It allows around 10 million customers per month to connect and make appointments based on their availability without having to send emails back and forth.
The platform offers four plans, allowing individuals, small companies, and large enterprises alike to make use of these services. Organic strategies have driven Calendly's growth. Its invites become links to Calendly itself, so people who like it can, and do, start to use it.
There are a handful of competing products on the market, including offerings from Doodle and Microsoft, but Calendly's customer-friendly design has won it attention and helped it to carve a space in the field. Impressive funding has contributed to the company's expansion, and its capitalised on the increasing popularity of home and hybrid working.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2021
$350m
SERIES B
Apr 2014
$0.6m
SEED
Total funding: $350.6m
Company benefits
- Quarterly Bonus
- Equity
- Home Office Setup
- Technology
- Pick Your Own Perk
- Flexible Time Off
- Vacation Stipend
- Parental Leave
- Health and Wellbeing
- Fun Community Events
- 401k Company Match
Company HQ
Atlantic Station, Atlanta, GA
Leadership
Tope Awotona
(Founder & CEO)Having studied at the University of Georgia, they worked as an IBM Sales Rep and for Perceptive Software, Vertafore, and EMC as an Account Manager. They left the latter in 2014, having founded Calendly in February 2013.
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