Director of Product Design

About Juniper Square

Our mission is to unlock the full potential of private markets. Privately owned assets like commercial real estate, private equity, and venture capital make up half of our financial ecosystem yet remain inaccessible to most people. We are digitizing these markets, and as a result, bringing efficiency, transparency, and access to one of the most productive corners of our financial ecosystem. If you care about making the world a better place by making markets work better through technology – all while contributing as a member of a values-driven organization – we want to hear from you. 

Juniper Square offers employees a variety of ways to work, ranging from a fully remote experience to working full-time in one of our physical offices. We invest heavily in digital-first operations, allowing our teams to collaborate effectively across 27 U.S. states, 2 Canadian Provinces, India, Luxembourg, and England. We also have a physical offices in San Francisco, New York City, Mumbai and Bangalore for employees who prefer to work in an office some or all of the time.

About your role

We're seeking an experienced product design leader to develop and scale our design organization, and oversee the design of our product. You’ll inherit a high-performing team of six talented product designers, and will empower them to develop industry-leading user experiences and AI-first innovation, while growing professionally as individuals and as a team. You’ll report to our Chief Product Officer, and work closely with our product management function as well as our engineering, sales, marketing, and customer-facing teams to foster design excellence across the organization.

This role would benefit from in-person collaboration in San Francisco, where many of our product management, design, and engineering personnel are based, although we also welcome exceptional candidates from elsewhere in the United States and Canada.

What you’ll do

• Lead and scale a high-performance product design team, while strengthening our culture of excellence and innovation

  Lead our growing adoption of AI-first design tools, and pioneer new ways to transform the development process through AI-enabled rapid prototyping, in partnership with our product management and engineering teams

  Identify and drive step-change improvements in product experience that differentiate us in the market

  Lead efforts to develop innovative design patterns for our customer-facing AI products

  Uphold our high bar for talent as you grow the team and build specialist design functions over time

  Promote professional and career development for design team members

  Champion user-centered design across the organization, and drive company-wide design vision and strategy

  Partner with our engineering team to strengthen design systems and front-end capabilities

  Collaborate with our marketing, sales, customer experience, and fund administration teams to deepen understanding of our customers’ needs, and coordinate brand and product design strategies

  Qualifications

  • 12+ years of product design experience, with 6+ years managing and scaling product design teams

    Proven track record as a director-level design leader in rapidly growing enterprise/B2B software companies with top-notch design standards (financial or investment technology experience is a plus)

    Interest and curiosity to explore new ways of working with AI-first design tools to transform the software design and development process

    Experience scaling design teams (5-20+ people) while maintaining a high bar for quality and culture

    High personal standards for visual, interaction, content, and other aspects of design quality, and strong ability to build empathy with users

    Ability to nurture a healthy design culture, both within the design team and across the company

    Experience building and maintaining design systems in complex product environments

    Track record of transforming product experiences to create measurable business impact

    Strong portfolio demonstrating evolution from IC designer to influential design leader, showing exceptional design craft

    Experience transitioning teams from startup to scale-up practices

    Compensation

    Compensation for this position includes a base salary, bonus, equity, and a variety of benefits. The U.S. base salary range for this role is $250,000 - 300,000 USD. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable. 

     

    Benefits include:

    Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family

    Life insurance

    Mental wellness coverage

    Fertility and growing family support

    Flex Time Off in addition to company paid holidays

    Paid family leave, medical leave, and bereavement leave policies

    Retirement saving plans

    Allowance to customize your work and technology setup at home

    Annual professional development stipend

    Your recruiter can provide additional details about compensation and benefits.

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