Director of Product Design, Frontify
Brand management platform
Job no longer available
Brand management platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create a home where all brands can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- You can work remotely or hybrid within Switzerland or the UK, with access to our offices in St. Gallen and London
- You have 10+ years of design experience with SaaS or complex digital products, with proven experience leading design teams
- You enjoy managing and developing people, with experience successfully leading a design team of 10+ designers
- You move fluidly between high-level strategy and the critical design details that matter
- You demonstrate strong strategic thinking with the ability to balance user needs, business goals, and technical constraints
- You thrive in a fast-paced environment, and you get more – not less – creative when faced with limits and ambiguity
- You have excellent presentation and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
- You can show work demonstrating strategic, systems thinking, and scalable design solutions
- You enjoy working cross-functionally, bringing new ideas to the table, and never being afraid to challenge the status quo
- You're expert-level proficient with design tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
- You speak English fluently
- We’re looking for someone comfortable with change and excited to contribute to a dynamic environment
What the job involves
- As Director of Product Design, you'll set design strategy and vision, and oversee design execution, guiding your team of about 13 designers from discovery to delivery
- You'll lead strategic direction across the design organization—ensuring teams are solving the right problems efficiently—while partnering with Product and Engineering leadership to drive business outcomes
- You'll build design capabilities, establish quality standards, and develop designers. All while ensuring our products balance user needs with data-driven business impact
- Set strategic design direction across product initiatives, partnering with executive leadership to align design vision with the overall product strategy and business objectives
- Build design excellence by establishing quality standards, design principles, and review processes that elevate team output
- Organize and optimize the design team to enable efficient collaboration and delivery across product initiatives
- Guide complex problem-solving by providing strategic direction to designers tackling ambiguous, high-impact challenges
- Champion design standards, establishing and evangelizing inclusive design practices and accessibility requirements across all products
- Drive cross-functional alignment, partnering with Product, Engineering, and Research leaders to ensure design, business, and technical strategies are unified
- Foster an entrepreneurial culture, cultivating a team environment that embraces rapid experimentation, lean methodologies, and curiosity about emerging technologies like AI
Application process
- Apply: Submit your CV and answer a few questions. We’ll update you on your application
- Talent Partner: Meet our Talent Team to discuss Frontify, the role, and your background
- Team Meetings: Connect with your future team, discuss the role, showcase your skills, and explore your potential new journey
- Join Us: If it’s a match, welcome to Frontify!
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Global brands are experiencing exponential demand for more content across increasingly automated channels. Meanwhile, research has shown that employees spend about 16% of their time searching for information and assets they need, but are finding them only 56% of the time.
Frontify was created to be a central hub for companies, serving as a brand management portal that includes dynamic, modularised design systems. Here, employees can find brand assets that can be edited, maintained and shared with others across the company and beyond.
The company has invested in its international growth and product development, doubling down on its unique combination of a full-suite service and high UX standards. It has also expanded its executive team and acquired real-time image and video processing service TwicPics to support continued scaling.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2021
$50m
SERIES C
Jan 2020
$22.3m
SERIES B
Total funding: $80.6m
Company benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Stock options & company success bonus
- Collaborative, social places to bring people together in-person & virtually
- Work from anywhere
- Paid parental leave
Company HQ
St. Gallen, SG
Leadership
Roger Dudler
(CEO & Founder)Previously a Senior Software Engineer at Namics in Switzerland. Also worked as a Developer for over a decade at various technology companies before founding Frontify.
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