Product Design Director, Philo
$180-230k
+Stock Options and Benefits
Live TV streaming service
Open for applications
Live TV streaming service
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$180-230k
+Stock Options and Benefits
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide affordable and accessible television streaming services to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 5+ years in a product design role, with an additional 3+ years in a leadership role
- Design and Management Skills: Exceptional design, communication, and people management skills, with a strong empathetic spirit and enthusiasm for mentoring, managing, and building a diverse and thoughtful team
- Strategic Vision: Ability to think high-level about product strategy and vision, and articulate that vision for both designers and non-designers
- Technical Proficiency: Strong understanding of technologies and their impact on design decisions
- Product Design Leadership: Capability to produce and lead others in product design releases, with experience using user research and analytics to inform design decisions
- Design Principles Mastery: A deep understanding of design principles and how those principles can be extended to accommodate functional needs, ensuring products are accessible and inclusive
- End-to-End Ownership: Ability to own the end-to-end design process from concept through implementation
- Diversity and Inclusion Experience: Experience designing with and for diverse groups of people, with a focus on accessibility and inclusivity
- Conflict Resolution: Strong conflict resolution skills to navigate challenges that arise within cross-functional teams
- Portfolio: A robust portfolio demonstrating a track record of successful product designs and design leadership
- Emotional Intelligence: High emotional intelligence to effectively manage team dynamics and foster a positive work environment
- Adaptability: Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment, with a focus on continuous improvement and learning
- Leadership in Remote Environments: Experience managing and leading design teams in remote or hybrid work environments
- Unique Perspective: A strong and unique perspective and aesthetic that stands out from established conventions, driving innovation and creativity
What the job involves
- At Philo we are designing, building, testing, and quite literally reinventing television across web, mobile, and connected TV platforms. Each member of our team works together on the entire product experience. It’s common to go from brainstorming backend considerations to polishing design details, from understanding how the video encoding pipeline affects performance to thinking about how to best tailor a feature to each different platform
- As Product Design Director, you would contribute to the creation of the design vision across our product, from ground-breaking and user-centric product design to stunning new visual design
- As a main architect of how our company expresses itself through design, you would also be a key contributor to our culture that puts people first and encourages everyone to participate in making Philo the company and product we want it to be
- Lead, Nurture, and Grow the Team: Help to lead, nurture, and grow the design team through strong mentorship and empathy, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development
- Promote High Standards: Promote a high standard of best-in-class user experience, visual, and product design across the team, ensuring our products and features are valuable, easy to use, and exhibit the highest level of craft and execution
- Design Reviews and Collaboration: Run regular design reviews that foster collaboration, creativity, and a shared vision. The CEO and other senior stakeholders will be an integral part of the review process, ensuring alignment with the company’s strategic goals
- Support Culture and Values: Help to support and scale our unique culture and values within the design team and across the organization
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with teams in product organization, marketing, business, and engineering to enhance our user experience, ensuring our creative vision is realized, and that our brand is accurately reflected in our products, and our products consistently embody our brand
- Design System Stewardship: Work with our design team to build upon and maintain our complex design system and libraries, ensuring consistency and scalability across products
- Champion the Product: Be a champion of our product, creating delightful end-to-end experiences with a focus on delighting our customers
- Drive Innovation: Actively prototype, test, and iterate new features in collaboration with others, encouraging experimentation and integrating cutting-edge design practices
- Consistent Design Identity: Craft a consistent design identity and story that connects our marketing and product efforts
- Apply Design Principles: Work closely with internal and external teams to apply our design principles and values to improve the effectiveness of our acquisition and awareness campaigns
- Data-Driven Design: Work with our product designers to lead and leverage qualitative and quantitative data to drive product thinking and strategy
- Evolve Visual Brand: Lead the evolution of our visual brand design system, ensuring it remains relevant and impactful
- Advocate for Accessibility: Ensure that all products and features are designed with accessibility in mind, promoting inclusivity across diverse user groups
- Resource Management: Oversee the allocation of design resources, ensuring that teams are well-supported and that project timelines are met
- Stakeholder Communication: Regularly communicate design progress and strategy to executive leadership, articulating how design initiatives align with broader company goals
- Design Thinking Workshops: Facilitate workshops and training sessions to cultivate a design-thinking culture across the organization
- Risk Management: Identify potential design risks early in the process and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful outcomes
- Budget Management: Manage the design budget, literally and figuratively, ensuring that projects are cost-effective without compromising on quality
- This role reports directly to the CEO, ensuring that design initiatives are closely aligned with the overall business strategy
- The CEO will also be actively involved in the design review process, providing feedback and guidance to help steer the team toward success
Our take
Streaming services offer cheaper options than cable TV packages, but prices are beginning to rise. This is partly due to packages beginning to bundle costly sports and other media packages that viewers do not necessarily want.
Philo offers a streaming service that aims to provide a streamlined selection of channels as an affordable, yet comprehensive, viewing option. The streamlined and high-quality channel offerings are available to viewers at $25 per month, a price significantly lower than standard cable subscriptions, with the base option including 60 live channels and over 75,000 on-demand offerings.
Whilst other streaming platforms offer affordable packages, Philo stands out with unique features such as a co-viewing service that allows up to three people to watch the same program together. The company has also proven its dedication to improved user experiences, as it expands its compatibility with devices such as smart TVs.
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10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Career progression
"Philo is an employer that encourages self-development and education. It was actually one of the more appealing aspects of the job offer when I was..."
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2020
$50m
SERIES D
Jul 2018
$41.4m
SERIES C
Total funding: $155.7m
Company benefits
- Full health, dental and vision coverage for you and your family
- 401(k) plan with employer contributions (we match 100% of deferrals up to 3% of pay and 50% of the next 2% of pay)
- Flexible working hours
- Up to 20 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Unlimited paid time off for vacation and sick leave
- $2,000 annual vacation bonus (we pay you to take a two week vacation)
- $5,250 annually for professional development and educational assistance
- $1,250 annual home office + TV stipend during first year of employment ($250 annually thereafter)
- $500/month ($6,000/year) bonus for employees who commit to working at least 3 days per week in our offices, plus generous commuter benefits ($315/month towards transit, rideshare, bike rental, or parking at our HQ office in San Francisco)
- Free Gympass subscription — an all-in-one corporate benefit that gives employees the largest selection of gyms, studios, classes, training and wellness apps
- Dog-friendly office
- And much more!
Company HQ
Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Andrew McCollum
(CEO, not founder)Studied Computer Science at Harvard before co-founding Facebook. Joined Philo in 2014 and has acted as CEO since.
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