VP of Product Design, Calm
D2C
$325-375k
+ Equity
Calm participates in e-verify
Wellness app for meditation and sleep
Job no longer available
Wellness app for meditation and sleep
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$325-375k
+ Equity
Calm participates in e-verify
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To support everyone on every step of their mental health journey.
Role
Who you are
- Experience successfully coaching and managing the performance of teams across Product Design, UX Writing and UX Research
- Experience leveraging successful strategies for organizational planning and approaches to strengthen team capacity
- Ability to map product design decisions back to business needs and broader organizational needs
- High product quality bar and a strong eye for visual design
- Experience building consumer applications from zero to one
- Strong background in shipping impactful products that require tight collaboration with marketing, brand, and other relevant functions
- Strong experience partnering with Product Management and Engineering to meet deadlines and deliver quality products
- In-depth knowledge of human-centered design practices, research methodologies, and design tools
- Exceptional leadership experience managing lean teams with multiple competing priorities
- Presentation and communication skills suited for our executive team that leverage design storytelling to drive alignment
- Create a learning environment where designers grow and expand skill-sets, techniques, and tools
- This role typically requires 15+ years of relevant experience
What the job involves
- On the product & design team, we are responsible for delivering Calm to our customers, ensuring that it is easy to use, supportive of their goals, and of high quality across web, iOS, Android
- This role will manage and oversee the Product Design, UX research, and UX Writing functions on the consumer app team.
- They will partner with Product Management, Engineering, Data Science, and Marketing leadership to plan efforts to bring new customers to Calm
- Product design team leadership: Great design and UX are core to Calm. You will lead a team of experienced product designers and researchers to execute on our company goals. You should also be willing to roll up your sleeves and creatively direct as necessary in order to keep our quality bar high
- Mentorship & management: You will mentor a world-class team of designers, writers and researchers and establish clear standards for performance and quality. We are a lean team, so being able to flexibly allocate resources and manage bandwidth is critical
- Cross-functional & leadership collaboration: You will partner closely with the leaders of product, engineering, brand design, content, customer experience and sales to ship impactful, high quality products
- Vision & Ideation: As a member of the DTC leadership team, you will work closely with other leaders to articulate Calm’s product vision and strategy through design
Our take
Calm is the world leader in digital wellness, specializing in helping users achieve healthier sleep, relaxation, and meditative practices. With over 150M downloads, Calm has firmly established itself as a top player in the rapidly growing wellness space, offering a web app designed to guide users toward better mental and physical well-being.
Born in 2012 following a chance meeting on a boat, co-founders Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith bring a robust entrepreneurial skill set to the table. Having both achieved early successes and mental stresses with previous ventures ‘Million Dollar Homepage’ and ‘Moshi Monsters’ respectively, they set out to make online mindfulness available to the mobile generation.
Since hitting unicorn status in 2019 with $88m in Series B funding, Calm has gone from strength to strength in a fiercely competitive market. According to analysis service Sensor Tower, over 5,000 meditation apps have been launched since 2015. Calm is banking on innovative partnerships with UMG (the world's largest music company), HBO Max and additions of stars like Stephen Fry, Sam Smith and Matthew McConaughey to keep them firmly in their number 1 spot.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
35% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2020
$75m
SERIES C
Jul 2019
$27m
SERIES B
Total funding: $218m
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
David Ko
(CEO & Board Member)Previously the President and COO at Rally Health, Chief Mobile Officer and COO at Zynga, and SVP at Yahoo!
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