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Head of Design job at Level

At Level, we believe using your benefits should be as easy as buying a cup of coffee. We’re unlocking the full value of compensation by rebuilding benefits as a simple payments experience — fast, flexible, and transparent. Our mission is to empower people to build better financial futures, and we’re accomplishing that by transforming the status quo of benefits.

Level is a B2B2C fintech company comprised of a diverse team from industry-leading companies like Square, Oscar, Google, Uber, and Airbnb. Together, we’re creating a new payments tech stack to help employers offer more accessible and personalized benefits for their teams — and this is just the beginning.

At Level, collaboration is our superpower. By leveraging each other’s strengths and curiosity, we’ve been able to build a best-in-class product, culture, and business. Plus, our employee benefits are so awesome that we let our customers buy them too.

What You'll Do:

Lead, inspire, and challenge a talented team of Product, Content, and Brand designers across a diverse product landscape
Collaborate with other leaders as a vocal and principled design advocate, helping define long-term vision for products and the strategies to accomplish them
Mentor and support both individual contributors and people managers in their technical, strategic, collaborative, and leadership skills
Develop competency and behavioral frameworks for designers to excel and advance their careers
Cultivate an environment that makes research and experimentation core to creative development
Evolve design collaboration and critiques and introduce new ways for the team to learn and grow
Foster a culture of empathy, safety, and belonging where all voices are heard
Develop design principles and design language that can be leveraged by the larger organization
Attract and recruit the best designers in the industry, growing a diverse team that can scale and thrive

Who You Are:

15+ years of relevant industry experience
6+ years in leadership roles including managing managers
Vocal and principled representative for the Design team within Leadership
Deep experience and success in leading, managing, and developing a diverse team of designers to do their best work within a complex environment (doing this within an early-stage company is a bonus)
Provide clear and precise feedback that is thoughtful and actionable, both on high level work as well as pixel specific projects
Nurture a work environment allowing everyone to bring their whole selves to work
Empathetic, collaborative, no-ego approach to leadership
Extensive knowledge and experience strategizing, prioritizing, and aligning multiple roadmaps to a larger organizational mission
Experience building innovative products in the fin-tech space
Outstanding portfolio showcasing both their own and their team's work (preferably in a complex financial product), as well as leadership accomplishments and company achievements
Experience working with confidential and highly sensitive information

What We Offer:

Have the chance to work at a leading innovator and trailblazer in the world of insurance and payments.
Competitive salary and equity
100% paid medical for you and 80% for your dependents, 100% covered dental and vision through Level for you and your dependents
Flexible vacation policy - take the time you need when you need it!
Fully Paid Parental leave for 3 months
Quarterly Company sponsored events
Internal learning and development programs

Level is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all. Please apply to this role if you feel you are a good fit, regardless of your race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other perceived limiting factor. We welcome applicants from all walks of life.

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