Head of Product Design (Remote)
About Starburst
Starburst is the analytics engine for all your data. We provide the fastest, most efficient analytics engine for your data warehouse, data lake, or data mesh. We’re on a mission to free our customers to see the invisible and achieve the impossible. We unlock the value of distributed data by making it fast and easy to access, no matter where it lives. Starburst queries data across any database, making it instantly actionable for data-driven organizations. With Starburst, teams can lower the total cost of their infrastructure and analytics investments, prevent vendor lock-in, and use the existing tools that work for their business. Today more than 150 leading organizations trust us to make better decisions faster.
Though Starburst has achieved a unicorn status and raised $414M in venture funding from top investors, we were founded in a rather unusual way with customers and revenue from the very beginning! We operate globally in 10 countries and are proud to be named a Best Place to Work. Come join our team of All-Stars!
About Starburst
Starburst is looking for a seasoned Head of Product Design to support our growing product organization in building world-class products that delight our customers. Reporting to the VP Product, you will help craft our product design strategy for how our products can unlock the analyst within us all. By making it easy for anyone using Starburst to find, consume, and ultimately understand their business holistically. You will grow, lead and mentor a small team of talented product designers who work across Starburst Enterprise and Galaxy.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of talented Product Designers and User Researchers while additionally recruiting, nurturing, and retaining best-in-class talent.
- Create a frictionless and intuitive user experience and oversee the product design process & team.
- Work cross-functionally with Product Management, Engineering, Growth, Marketing, Customer Success, and Sales teams to build strong partnerships and formulate strategic product direction.
- Drive and own product experience design decisions throughout the entire customer journey.
- Be a champion and evangelist for the UX discipline and the team.
- Measure, iterate, and deliver delightful experiences.
- Set team goals and metrics aligned with the business KPIs and metrics.
- Collaborate with teams globally across multiple time zones and operate in an Agile development environment
Qualifications:
- Proven experience leading and building highly-functional innovative design teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience working on technical enterprise SaaS products.
- Passion for effective mentoring and coaching; you love to help others grow!
- Team player who enjoys collaborating with product, engineering, and other stakeholders throughout the product development process.
- Strong in strategic thinking, verbal and written communication. You can leverage storytelling to craft clear narratives of where projects could go and help influence teams.
- Experience leading and managing operations of a design team (e.g. critiques, design system, team processes, etc.)Experience working at start-ups.
- Domain knowledge of data warehousing, data lakes, and big data technologies is a plus.
- Experience at Product-led growth companies is a plus.
Benefits
At Starburst, we’re constantly striving towards building a place where people come first by creating an environment of transparency, honesty, and respect. We take care of our global workforce by making sure employees enjoy competitive salaries and attractive stock grants, remote-friendly work options, access to quality and affordable insurance, and flexible and generous paid time off to start a family, travel, or just relax!
Headquartered in Boston MA with offices in Warsaw and London and employees across Europe and the Americas, we are committed to hiring where the talent is.
Starburst provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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