Product Design Lead

About Doodle

Doodle is the world’s leading scheduling platform, helping millions of people instantly set meetings with clients, colleagues and teams. Tapping into the unique nature of smart scheduling with AI, Doodle simplifies the planning of 1:1 and group meetings for busy professionals. As the world's most trusted online scheduling platform, Doodle attracts more than 25 million monthly active users.

Now’s your chance to join 100+ ambitious engineers, designers, product managers, marketers and salespeople on a mission to make great meetings happen. Be a part of a global team headquartered in Zurich, with offices in Atlanta, Belgrade and Berlin.

Position

Are you looking for your next challenge? Do you want a job that’s exciting with a team that loves what they do? Then we may have just the thing...

At Doodle, we’re the kind of people who wake up every morning passionate about what we do. That’s what we’re looking for in our new Doodlers. You’ll be brimming with new ideas, driven by curiosity and don’t flinch at the thought of experimenting - even if the test fails. You’re someone who challenges the status quo and enjoys pushing yourself and others to reimagine, optimize and innovate.

Who Are We?

Doodle is the world’s leading scheduling platform, helping millions of people instantly set meetings with clients, colleagues and teams. Tapping into the unique nature of smart scheduling with AI, Doodle simplifies the planning of 1:1 and group meetings for busy professionals. As the world's most trusted online scheduling platform, Doodle attracts more than 25 million monthly active users.

Now’s your chance to join 100+ ambitious engineers, designers, product managers, marketers and salespeople on a mission to make great meetings happen. Be a part of a global team headquartered in Zurich, with offices in Atlanta, Belgrade and Berlin.

What the Role Involves

• Lead a team of two product designers
• Coach, mentor and help grow designers in the team
• Drive understanding and adoption of lean UX and lean startup mindset within the team
• Define and continually refine processes to help speed and efficiency within the team
• Collaborate with the team and engineers to define, document and iterate on components and design patterns to make up a design system
• Working directly as part of a cross-functional team: with engineers, (be they front-end or back-end) and Product Managers in a collaborative fashion. You have a hands on mentality and you don’t “throw things over the wall”
• Quickly and thoroughly create and iterate on scenarios, wireframes, process flows, design mockups, and clickable prototypes as needed to effectively explore and communicate interaction behaviors
• Fostering a healthy design practice by giving and receiving feedback with maturity and perspective

Your qualification

We are looking for a Product Design Lead who is passionate about design, pragmatic and looking to work in a collaborative environment. You’ll lead a team of designers providing direction, guidance, coaching and mentoring as well as input on best practices, tooling and approaches. You’ll be both a leader and a hands-on practitioner, leading by example. You’ll work in a data driven, iterative environment looking to deliver in small batches and continuously learn from feedback and analysis - think lean UX. You’ll work as part of a cross-functional team to identify and solve customer problems.

Ideally, You Have

• Many years of experience as a product designer
• Several years managing or leading design teams preferred
• Experience working in a collaborative team, partnering closely with product management to define use cases and requirements, and working directly with developers on implementation of your designs
• Experience creating and organizing processes around design system preferred
• Fluency in English

What we offer

• Top talent deserves a competitive salary 
• We’re a team that cares about each other. We think we work best when we work together, so you’ll always feel included
• Diversity is what makes us successful. We all have different strengths and push each other to try new things, innovate and deliver impactful results for the business
• Your personal development matters and we mean it. Every Doodler gets a yearly budget to use for anything that promotes your continuous learning (be it an industry conference, language classes, leadership training, or anything else)
• Your well-being matters to us. Access thousands of beneficial meditation tools with your free Headspace account
• Get together with the entire team of Doodlers (from all offices) to connect, bond, play games and unwind at the annual international retreat
• Travel to (and spend time with other Doodlers) in some of our lovely offices worldwide
• Take advantage of our remote friendly policy
• Enjoy complimentary Doodle Premium memberships for you, your friends and your family
• Free snacks and fruit in all our office locations

Additional details

Hiring Journey

• Applicant initial validation
• Short Cognitive & Personality Test
• Interview with Kevin (CPO)
• Interview with Maria (Design Lead)
• Meet the Design Team
• Cultural Fit Interview
• Offer