Lead Product Designer

About us:

Chief is changing the face of leadership. Our mission: build the most powerful network focused on connecting and supporting women leaders. Our members are VP and C-level executives across every industry who are leading their companies today and building a more equitable tomorrow. Chief was recently recognized as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2021, and you can read more about us in Forbes or watch us on the Today Show.

Launched in early 2019, Chief is a Series B stage start-up backed by General Catalyst, Inspired Capital, Primary Ventures, CapitalG, and other top-tier investors. The Chief network includes 12,000+ members from across the United States and United Kingdom. We are headquartered in New York City with additional Flagship spaces in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and London.

We are tech-powered. Our members make meaningful connections, engage in compelling discussions, and view our unique content through our digital platform. Our Product and Technology teams are building the future of that platform, with data and insights at its heart.

About the Role:  

As a Lead Product Designer, you will design innovative and elegant products and features across mobile and web. You will actively leverage user insights and use your interaction, visual, and product design skills to build end-to-end experiences for our members. You will collaborate extensively with teammates across Product, Engineering, Research, and Data to develop product strategy and design roadmaps.

What you’ll do: 

• Drive the user experience of products from conception to launch as part of the product development team 
• Design innovative end-to-end flows and experiences across mobile and web with high quality and craftsmanship 
• Contribute heavily to our design system
• Partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, and data scientists to define problems and goals, determine product strategy, and launch and iterate on products for our rapidly growing user base. 
• Communicate and present designs and design rationale to leadership and cross-functional teams and gain alignment

What you’ve done and enjoy doing:

• Extensive experience in end-to-end product, interaction, and visual design 
• An excellent communicator and collaborator. You love partnering with other designers as well as different people across functions 
• A user-centric problem solver. You care deeply about people’s motivations and behaviors and can leverage insights to create high quality experiences that solve true user needs 
• A lover of visual design. You think beyond the pixels to create high quality experiences for users 
• Demonstrated ability to help a team navigate loosely defined problems and complexity into a cohesive vision and strategy 
• High proficiency in Figma 
• Excited to work in a fast-paced environment and passionate about our vision to change the face of leadership 
• Must be authorized to work in the United States

Why You'll Want to Work Here:

• Competitive salary and equity
• Flexible vacation policy and 4.5 day work weeks
• 20 weeks of paid gender neutral parental leave
• Full medical, dental, and vision packages, 401(k)
• Opportunity to work for a startup focused on driving real change for women in business
• Opportunity to create and attend inspiring experiences and events with leaders of the industry
• Access to our ongoing virtual Chief member exclusive content, including workshops, thought leadership, and iconic speakers
• Wellness, Work from home and Learning Stipends available

While we’re committed to remaining compliant and adhering to mandates, for us, pay transparency is more than a consideration of what’s lawful and unlawful but rather, an opportunity to disclose what’s required, and what we think is a fair and equitable compensation framework.

At Chief, we want to hire, develop, and retain the best talent, making Chief a top destination to accelerate your career. Our compensation framework is a key part of our vision, and we continually revisit and invest in our philosophy and framework to ensure we remain competitive and relevant, on a quest to achieve our vision.

The pay transparency mandates, as well as our own policies and practices, are a means of narrowing the gender pay gap and fostering an engaged and positive working environment that builds trust, on our mission to change the face of leadership.

The base salary for this role is: $190,000.00

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