Accurate Background is seeking an experienced Manager of Product Design to lead a team focused on driving the product development and digital experience process, ensuring that our designs align with user needs, business objectives, and technological feasibility. In this role, you’ll work closely with Product Managers, Designers, Product Owners, Developers, internal stakeholders and end-users to help drive innovation and overall experience while improving usability.
The ideal candidate is not only a highly skilled designer but also an influential leader, possessing exceptional communication, effective collaboration and mentorship, and strong storytelling abilities.
Accurate Background is a fast-growing organization, focused on providing employment background screenings and building trustful relationships with our clients. Accurate Background continues to exceed expectations by offering an array of innovative and cutting-edge background check and credentialing products to meet the needs of human resource, loss prevention, and security/legal professionals in employment screening and vendor certification.
We offer a fun, fast-paced environment, with lots of room for growth. If this sounds good to you, join our team!
Responsibilities
- You will be responsible for managing and mentoring a team of product designers, ensuring the delivery of high-quality product experiences
- In this role, the Product Design Leader will employ a strategic approach to design, combining thoughtful leadership, creative direction, and people management to empower the team in creating outstanding experiences for our candidates and customers
- They will collaborate closely with Product Managers and Engineering leaders, leveraging their strong communication and storytelling skills to advocate for a cohesive digital design system, user experience vision, and strategy
- Additionally, the Design Leader will utilize their in-depth understanding of user behavior, employing robust analytics and experimentation frameworks to drive data-informed design decisions
- Translate business needs into clear design direction for both interaction and visual design
- Identify, prioritize, and create new design components that are reusable, responsive and accessible, while driving adoption of the design system
- Inspire and lead experience design innovation
- Ensure team accountability for commitments and ideas
- Foster team growth and career development while challenging teams to surpass conventional thinking
- Cultivate and maintain robust cross-functional relationships, while establishing yourself as a thought leader in product strategy; influence, mentor, and guide other designers to deliver the best work of their lives
Requirements, Skills, and Education
- Minimum 8+ years of experience as a UX Design Leader or equivalent
- Build, manage, coach and scale a team of high-performing product designers while collaborating cross-departmentally with Product, Engineering, and Marketing leadership to plan and iterate on a variety of new and existing features and products
- In this role, you will be responsible for driving best practices in the design process, user research, user testing and cross functional collaboration
- Ensure best-in-class design solutions across all of our products and features and ensure teams are delivering high-quality product design work
- Manage and empower product designers and UX developers in doing their best work
- Partner closely with engineering and product to identify solutions to design challenges
- Raise the bar for product quality across our products by advocating for user-centered product roadmaps, investments in innovation, and insights driven by user research
- Iteratively improve products based on quantitative and qualitative feedback and clearly communicate design decisions to stakeholders across departments
- Balance long-term and short-term perspectives throughout the continuous release process while iterating toward a future vision
- Provide direction and growth to the design team by reviewing design progress and providing constructive feedback to drive creative execution
- Lead and workshop design thinking exercises to further develop designers and others in the business while pushing for creative growth and industry knowledge
Preferred Skills
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Advanced understanding of design systems and an ability to communicate its value at various levels and functions of the organization
- Advanced proficiency in product design and development tools (i.e., Figma, Principle, Framer; ability to write markup and/or develop in HTML, JS, SwiftUI, etc.)
- The ability to thrive at the intersection of design strategy, scaled solutions, and craft
What We Do
Accurate Background’s vision is to make every hire the start of a success story. As a trusted provider of employment background screening and workforce monitoring services, Accurate Background empowers organizations of all sizes with the confidence to make smarter, unbiased hiring decisions at the speed of demand. Experience a new standard of support with a dedicated team, comprehensive technology and insight, and the most extensive coverage and search options to advance your business while keeping your brand and people safe.
We offer scalability while maintaining our commitment to integrity, accuracy and timely results and will give you the tools to make safer hiring decisions through comprehensive reports, interactive compliance services, and intuitive, easy-to-use technology.
