What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Design Lead position at Sprig?
About Sprig
Sprig has pioneered a new approach to product research that helps companies learn from their customers in real-time and deliver award-winning product experiences. Companies like Dropbox, Square, Opendoor, Loom and Shift all use Sprig to understand their customers at the pace of modern software development, so they can build customer-centric products that deliver a sustainable competitive advantage.
Today, we're growing fast and ready for new team members who are passionate about surprising and delighting our own customers.
Sprig is based in San Francisco, CA with offices around the U.S. The company has raised $60M led by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, and First Round Capital, and have recently been featured in articles by TechCrunch, Crunchbase, and Business Insider.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We prioritize diversity within our team and value different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.
About this Role
We're seeking a Product Design Lead to contribute to the growth and evolution of the product, with a focus on designing for simplicity, usability, and craft. Develop expertise on the product and customer to inform strategic design decisions.
Your Impact
- Ship features and contribute to the roadmap by partnering with product and engineering.
- Collaborate with research to conduct prototype concept tests and interviews.
- Create improvements in the way that the design org functions.
- Champion and evolve our design system in its early stages.
Your Strengths
- Has worked with stakeholders in product and engineering functions to iterate on existing products and invent new ones. Has contributed to product strategy, vision, and execution.
- Comfortable talking to users and conducting research to identify their core problems, empathize with their needs, and translate these into well designed solutions.
- Takes ownership of projects and able to manage multiple priorities against deadlines. Take initiative to make sure things gets addressed, even if it's not noted as a formal responsibility.
- Experience designing and building web applications that serve different types of users and use cases.
- Strong experience with end-to-end product design, starting with broad ideas all the way to redlining in Figma for engineering handoff.
- Drives a culture that deeply values design, quality, and craftsmanship.
- Enjoys collaborating with other designers to push boundaries and contribute to a shared vision among the design team.
