📝 DRAFT — Director of Product and Design at Muse Incorporated

Director of Product and Design Muse Incorporated 💼 Design ⏰ Full Time 🌍 Remote

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About the Job

Muse Incorporated is a privately owned C-Corporation established in San Francisco, California. The company’s culture is diverse, and it’s morals focused around the needs and desires of the artists and listeners that make what Muse is today. Muse Protocol is a company dedicated to decentralized ownership, transparency, and most of all, power to the people as a whole. With Muse Protocol, the world can become that much closer with art, and art can become more profitable in its true, raw essence.

Muse Incorporated challenges the current structure of the music industry, disrupts the available market at its core, and implements a new era of listener engagement that truly places listeners up close and personal with the music they love so much. Muse is exactly what it stands to be, the driving force behind what makes music what it is today.

We're seeking a Director of Product Design at Muse. You are an excellent design leader with strong product vision, a mind towards execution, and a desire to build a culture that elevates the team. You know how to set the bar high. You know what quality looks like and how to help product teams ship at that quality with minimal impact on velocity. Our Director of Product and Design serves a vital role at the company, from creating the vision for new features, to the craft and finish of every detail in the product. We appreciate designers who think deeply, speak clearly, and embrace collaboration and feedback.

Duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Drive the design vision, strategy, and standard of execution across the entire product experience for creators, consumers and developer audiences.
• Champion a human approach to design across the company. Acting as a design visionary and internal evangelist, you will advocate for Design Thinking and human-centered practices throughout the company.
• Work closely with Product Management, Engineering and Data leaders to create and align a product strategy that supports our user's needs, and delivers on the value of the brand and business goals.
• Build a team culture synonymous with valuing the importance of design and the impact it can have on customer engagement and business results.
• Collaborate with your peers to build and execute against a unifying customer-centered strategy that deeply integrates marketing, product and service.
• Identify and collaborate with operational partners to ensure the Product Design team has the right tools and resources to execute their job at scale.
• Collaborate with all teams to drive an external understanding of the design culture we are building within the company.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of UX designers, while also rolling up sleeves as a UX design role player.
• Build systems, tools, and processes to streamline cross-functional product development and user research as we scale.
• Implement efficient UX/UI processes that help the design team achieve their best possible work as they work with product managers and engineers.
• Generate flows, wire frames, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity mock ups that are incredibly simple and elegant for any device or platform (web, iOS, email, etc.).
• Be a major advocate for both qualitative and quantitative data research and leverage to create designs that optimize for conversions.
• Articulate user experience design issues and solutions effectively. Present and justify design thinking and rationale through key milestone deliverables to peers and stakeholders.

What We're Looking For
• 8+ years of experience in designing, building and shipping high quality web and mobile applications
• 6+ years of experience in interaction and visual design
• 3+ years of management experience with direct reports under your guidance and leadership
• Portfolio showcasing excellent design skills, product thinking, and problem-solving
• Passion and experience working closely with engineering, product and marketing teams
• Majority of design career focused on consumer audiences; marketplace experience a major plus
• Proven ability with both design oversight and hands-on creation of carefully crafted user experiences and visual design deliverables, including user flows, wire frames, typography, color, and information design
• Be able to give and receive feedback is a must