Director, Product Design

The role:

• As a member of our Design team, the Director, Product Design will lead the strategy and vision for design across our products.
• You are a strong leader, design evangelist, and thought partner with comprehensive industry knowledge.
• You will retain, motivate, and develop a high-performing design team while fostering an environment for helping others learn and grow.You do not shy away from difficult conversations and you will coach and mentor team members by providing effective performance feedback to improve and develop optimum performance through day-to-day design challenges.
• You will produce non-obvious user experience insights to create innovative designs for Newsela and identify ways to improve the user experience both visually and by measurable user outcomes.
• You will independently produce, deliver, and validate high-quality end-to-end product(s), with a focus on ideating short-term design strategies and features with our product team that balances strategic business goals with the needs of clients.
• You will collaborate with core team members to introduce new product features and create a better user experience based on user feedback.
• You will partne...