Product Design Lead, Glean
Glean Agents
$162-220k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Enterprise search and knowledge management
Open for applications
Enterprise search and knowledge management
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$162-220k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring people the knowledge they need to make a difference in the world.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years prior product design experience in an organization that has shipped software to users, working closely with product, engineering, and product marketing teammates to develop strategy and rationale for features
- Strong hands-on leadership and mentorship skills, with 3+ years serving as a people manager for full-time product designers, preferably managing senior teammates
- Demonstrated strong leadership and mentoring
- Experience and genuine interest in AI tools. You have experience working with AI in your role, and you are deeply familiar with how AI works
- Experience designing for B2B products
- Ability to design polished, high-fidelity mockups and detailed interactive prototypes of your solutions in design tools like Figma
- Ability to understand technical concepts (bonus if you have working knowledge of code, APIs, databases)
- Experience collaborating with different disciplines in both product and GTM, and incorporating feedback into your work
- Strong written, verbal, and storytelling skills to help people across the company understand the rationale behind your designs
- Experience thriving in ambiguity and can independently prioritize work based on user needs and business goals, and take responsibility to drive product ideas forward
- Ability to think systematically about problems given tradeoffs and constraints, and go deep on details through continual rapid iteration
- A learning and growth mindset with an ability to self-start on problems, a willingness to own problems, and a desire to make things better
What the job involves
- Glean is looking for an experienced Product Design Lead to help define the future of our enterprise AI Agents
- You’ll collaborate closely with product designers, PMs, engineers, customer success advocates, and marketers, to ship category-defining product that’s used daily by customers to do their work
- As a Product Design Lead, you’ll be joining an experienced, tight-knit, and collaborative group of folks who love combining research, data, intuition, and best practices into a user-centered design process
- You’ll have an outsized impact on the product, used across hundreds of companies across many different industries, and an incredible opportunity to shape the system of intelligence for every company in the world
- Lead and manage a small team of high-performing product designers, guiding them in delivering exceptional design solutions
- Own and drive projects throughout the product design lifecycle in collaboration with your team, ensuring alignment with project timelines and objectives
- Develop and implement the user experience strategy for Glean's keystone products and features, aligning with and enhancing Glean’s overall product strategy
- Demonstrate expertise in end-to-end product development by understanding real customer needs, deriving actionable insights, and creating design solutions that effectively address challenges faced by knowledge workers in organizations
- Work flexibly and seamlessly at various levels and future perspectives, creating visionary experience solutions while identifying and executing incremental steps towards achieving those solutions
- Oversee the entire product design lifecycle of major features from end to end, conducting user research or partnering with others to gain insights into customer needs and translating those insights into impactful products and features
- Produce all necessary artifacts, including specs, sketches, wireframes, mocks, and prototypes, to guide UI ideas from conception to production
- Raise the bar for excellence in design craft, from high-level product thinking to detailed prototyping, ensuring high-quality outputs
- Exemplify excellence in product design behaviors by:
- Customizing design processes to suit specific project needs
- Providing and receiving constructive feedback to improve outcomes and quality
- Collaborating effectively with other product designers and cross-functional team members to ensure cohesiveness and consistency
- Innovating and developing solutions within AI-enabled environments
- Foster a safe and inclusive team environment, promoting continuous improvement in both team culture and delivery outcomes
- Maintain a strong focus on impact by prioritizing business and customer outcomes in all aspects of your work and guiding your team to do the same
Our take
Glean is an intuitive digital assistant which allows employees to search across all their apps and find the information and tools that they need more quickly.
With so many SaaS apps being used by modern day companies, overwhelm and inefficiency inevitably enter the equation. Glean’s search engine is proving popular for how it unifies and centralizes all these distributed tools and data.
It’s been quite a start to life at Glean, having only emerged from stealth in 2021, it received a $1 Billion valuation in early 2022, thus achieving unicorn status, and has received nearly $400 million in funding so far. The SaaS platform is already used by some major companies including Grammarly, databricks, and Rubrik.
That Glean was co-founded by a quartet with senior experience at Google, Microsoft, Uber, and Facebook stands the company in good stead. However, it’s the fact that its search engine is solving a new, but very real problem in the workplace that’s seen its popularity surge so quickly, which it’s likely to continue to do in the future. Its adaptability to include new AI capabilities to its platform, such as generative AI, has Glean well set to see further growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Sep 2024
$260m
SERIES E
Feb 2024
$200m
SERIES D
Total funding: $655m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision for you and yours
- Competitive compensation and stock options
- 401k contribution
- Flexible work (3 days a week in the office), though we believe in folks working where they can be most effective
- Company events, from weekly happy hours to our annual company retreat
- Flexible hours, unlimited PTO, and company-wide winter break shutdown
- Transparent culture
- Learning and development stipend
- Free meals with lunch and dinner options every day
Company HQ
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Arvind Jain
(CEO)Former Engineer at Google and Microsoft. Is the co-founder of high growth startup Rubrik, which delivers data security and operational resilience for enterprises.
Piyush Prahladka
(Software Engineer)Prior to joining the co-founding team at Glean, they worked as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, then as an Engineering Lead at Uber.
Tony Gentilcore
(Product Engineering Lead)Former Developer at At&T and TJC Labs. For ten years, served as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, including a spell as Founder and Tech Lead / Manager of the Chrome Speed Team.
TR Vishwanath
(Engineering Lead)Before co-founding Glean, was a Principal Software Engineer at Facebook after spending eight years at Microsoft as a Software Design Engineer, then Principal Development Lead.
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