Director of Product Design, Braze
$230-280k
OTE
$200-250k
BASE
Customer engagement platform
Job no longer available
Customer engagement platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$230-280k
OTE
$200-250k
BASE
1001+ employees
Company mission
To power lasting connections between consumers and brands they love.
Role
Who you are
- 5 years of design management experience
- Strong communication, collaboration, organization, and leadership skills, particularly the ability to work with cross-functional stakeholders and balance multiple projects and priorities at once
- Penchant for understanding complex problems and products; unafraid to discuss technical feasibility and long term technology planning
- Clear, concise, and cogent communicator
- Systems thinker
- Organized and thorough; habitually documents and double-checks work
- Comfortable with ambiguity, and learning through experimentation
- Experience spearheading user research and/or working closely with UX researchers
Desirable
- Experience working on marketing technology or customer engagement products
- Experience in enterprise SaaS
- Experience working with a mature design system
- Experience designing mobile app experiences
- Portfolio of the work you have led demonstrating skills in the following areas:
- Working on complex applications
- Excellent visual design and storytelling skills
- Strong prototyping skills
- Conducting research and carrying research insights into the work
- Partnering with engineers to release features with a high level of usability and craftsmanship
- Demonstrable business impact
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Product Design Leader to join our team, leading critical areas of the product that are essential for the company's continued growth
- Managing, mentoring and inspiring teams of product designers, uplifting the quality of their research and design work
- Contributing to the teams’ vision and product plan, while working with the Directors of Product Management and Engineering to establish long-term product strategies and process improvements
- Identifying and operationalizing overlapping efforts across product teams to ensure consistency for Braze customers
- Regularly and closely collaborating with Product Management, Engineering and Research disciplines within, and across, departments
- Collaborating with User Research partners to identify areas of research, develop a research plan, and act on research findings
- Recruiting, interviewing and hiring candidates for your team and across the design org
- Ensuring operational efficiency and accountability for design within this team
- Serving as an ambassador for design, and the multiple teams working on Orchestration
- Helping to scale our design org, design and research operations, and the long-term health of our product design system, Beacon
Our take
Braze was founded out of an opportunity to build a company in the mobile space, inspired by the success of Android. This decision was driven by the belief that technology can help build stronger and more valuable relationships between brands and customers. It is now a leading customer engagement platform that powers connections between consumers and the brands they love.
Braze does this by delivering messaging experiences through push notifications, apps, and emails, built specifically for today's always-connected customers. This replaces badly integrated tools and outdated databases, making customer relationships more personalised through cross-channel messaging, journey orchestration and AI-powered experimentation and optimisation. Through this, Braze allows any marketer to collect and take action on any amount of data from any source, so they can creatively engage with customers in real time, across channels from one platform.
As a venture-backed company, its clients now include Headspace, Canva, Max, Headspace, Domino's, Peloton and Depop. These clients use Braze to launch more effective messaging campaigns with less effort in the current mobile-first world. No doubt it's placement on the 2024 US News Best Technology Companies To Work For list will draw in more talent, whilst its growth to 10 new offices across North America, APAC regions and Europe indicates promising growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2018
$80m
SERIES E
Aug 2017
$50m
SERIES D
Total funding: $182.7m
Company benefits
- Flexible Vacation Policy: Take the time you need to balance your work and life in the way that suits you best
- Equal Paid Family Services: We offer fertility benefits along with equal paid parental leave, so you can focus your energy on your growing family
- Retirement Planning: We support you as you plan for your future. Braze will begin matching contributions into our retirement plan on your first day of employment
- Talent Development: We support your professional growth through formal career pathing, learning platforms, and our Global Learning Stipend
- Global Presence: Our global presence—15 cities and growing—provides opportunities to work and connect with top talent around the world
- ESPP: We offer an Employee Stock Purchasing Plan to all employees globally.
Company values
- Take Your Seat at the Table: Our community welcomes and respects your unique talents and perspective. Roll up your sleeves and join in - we’re building Braze together
- Don't Ignore Smoke: With constant vigilance, we help each other notice issues before smoke turns to fire. When others come to us, we celebrate the messenger and assist them however we can
- Shape the Future: We believe in the positive trajectory of change. We make investments, take calculated risks, and guide others down the path of our vision for the future
- Embrace Curiosity: We are explorers of details and new horizons. We embrace a growth mindset and pursue our curiosities to acquire new mastery and hone existing skills
- Be a Human: Each of us contributes to the Braze culture through our individuality. We operate with integrity, and above all else, we are kind
- Seek the Truth: We combine intelligence with humility to challenge assumptions and ask thoughtful questions. We make better decisions by deeply understanding our world
Company HQ
NoMad, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Bill Magnuson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Software Engineer at Google and Bridgewater Associates before co-founding Braze in 2011.
Jon Hyman
(Co-Founder & CTO)After graduating cum laude in Computer Science at Harvard, Jon joined Bridgewater Associates' Core Technology department and worked on the Forbes Technology Council before co-founding Braze.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Braze
Mel Windley (Director of Global Inclusion and Opportunity)
- Braze takes an inclusion-first approach and holds the philosophy that Global Inclusion and Opportunity must be built into business processes in order to have lasting and meaningful impact. The future we want to shape is one where people from diverse backgrounds and experiences can thrive and have meaningful careers at Braze.
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