About the Team
About the Role
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What you’ll do
- Lead the product design team within the Solutions Stream
- Partner with Product, Data, Engineering, and Marketing counterparts to strategize the domain, and ensure clear goals and priorities for the team
- Build, mentor, and develop a solid product design crew within your sub-stream
- Plan design team performance, workload, and career development
- Evolve the design processes within the broader org to optimize for efficiency
- Nurture and champion the design culture at Miro
What you’ll need
- Design Leadership:
- Develop and execute a compelling product design strategy that aligns with business goals and user needs
- Provide leadership and mentorship to a growing team of product designers, ensuring high standards of creative and technical output
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning within the design team
- Establish and promote best practices in product design processes, tools, and frameworks
- Team Management:
- Hire, train, and develop top-tier design talent to build a world-class product design team
- Set clear performance expectations, provide regular feedback, and manage career development for team members
- Ensure team members are engaged, motivated, and aligned with the company’s strategic direction
- Cross-functional Collaboration:
- Work closely with product management, engineering, marketing, and customer success teams to ensure that design is fully integrated into the product development process
- Act as a key stakeholder in product planning and roadmap discussions, bringing the voice of the user into decision-making
- Partner with engineering to ensure feasibility of design solutions and guide the team to make informed trade-offs when necessary
- Product Design Execution:
- Oversee the end-to-end design process from research and ideation to prototyping, usability testing, and final implementation
- Lead user research and ensure designs are data-driven, addressing user pain points and optimizing for the best possible experience
- Maintain consistency in brand and product design standards across the product suite while encouraging innovation where applicable
- Develop and maintain design systems, tools, and guidelines to ensure scalability and consistency
- Customer-Centric Focus:
- Advocate for the user by ensuring that design solutions are deeply rooted in an understanding of their needs, behaviors, and challenges
- Regularly gather feedback from users and iterate on designs to continuously improve the user experience
- Champion the importance of accessibility, inclusivity, and ethical design practices
What's in it for you:
- Competitive equity package
- Medical insurance coverage
- Lunch, snacks and drinks provided in the office
- Wellbeing benefit and WFH equipment allowance
- Annual learning and development allowance to grow your skills and career
- Travel allowance for your commute
- Opportunity to work for a globally diverse team
- Inspiring workplace in the heart of Amsterdam
About Miro
Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 60M users worldwide, including 99% of the Fortune 100. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,800 employees in 12 hubs around the world.
We are a team of dreamers. We look for individuals who dream big, work hard, and above all stay humble. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do and through our work together we hope to create a supportive, welcoming, and innovative environment. We strive to play as a team to win the world and create a better version of ourselves every day. If this sounds like something that excites you, we want to hear from you!
Check out more about life at Miro:
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lifeatmiro
- Blog: https://miro.com/careers/life-at-miro/all/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mirohq/
At Miro, we strive to create and foster an environment of belonging and collaboration across cultural differences. Miro’s mission — Empower teams to create the next big thing — is how we think about our product, people, and culture. We believe that creating big things requires diverse and inclusive teams. Diversity invites all talent with different demography, identities and styles to step in, and inclusion invites them to step closer together. Every day, we are working to build a more diverse Miro, cultivate a sense of belonging for future and current Mironeers around the world, and foster an environment where everyone can collaborate and embrace differences.
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