SVP, Product Design

Vimeo is looking for an accomplished leader to lead all aspects of the integral UX and Design team. As well as managing a team of 20+ designers, the VP/SVP will drive Vimeo’s product and design strategy across all parts of the business, including all the enterprise products, core video publishing workflows, and end consumer experiences. This will be a key leader on Vimeo’s product team helping devise vision, strategy, and team culture while inspiring a direction for all Vimeo employees and customers.

What you’ll do

• Help devise product vision for Vimeo in the enterprise world as a video platform
• Help build culture for the product team
• Own the product design, user experience and information architecture across Vimeo, ensuring a thoughtful, consistent UX that scales across all Vimeo tools, from freemium to Enterprise
• Manage a team of direct reports across design and UX copywriting, recruiting and developing world-class talent through coaching, managing and mentoring
• Build a consistent, effective, and compelling user journey across Vimeo's portfolio of subscription/video products, continuously reevaluating using data and user feedback, and maximizing user engagement, conversion and retention
• Effectively communicate the product vision, design and UX to key partners across all levels of the company
• Ensure appropriate and meaningful User Research is being conducted across all phases of the product development cycle
• Define UI patterns that can be integrated or repurposed across the site using research, data, and usability tests
• Champion new, creative exercises and processes to help key partners have a deeper understanding of our users, and how we can positively impact them
• Work across subject areas to specify and maintain all the UX components of a launch scope, ensuring timely delivery of the best products for our users

Skills and knowledge you should possess

• 15+ years of experience as a manager and IC across user experience, interaction design, and visual/graphic design
• Demonstrated meticulousness, excitement for beautiful design, and a love of seeing products ship
• Experience defining UI patterns that are usable across the site
• Proven leadership, leading with empathy, both for users and employees
• Experience leading with business impact
• Belief in and practice of systems thinking, moving from observing events or data to identifying patterns of behavior over time, to surfacing the underlying structures that drive those events and patterns
• Strong experience with complex products that go beyond funnel optimization and incorporate collaborative workflows across content creation and management of assets
• Experience in both B2B and B2C tech products

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