Principal / Architect Product Designer, Slack Mobile Strategy

Own the design strategy and standards for Slack’s mobile experience across platforms, ensuring high quality for shipped applications. Lead projects that focus on the core of the Slack experience and ensure consistent, cohesive, and accessible work across the design organization.

Responsibilities

• Owning the design strategy and standards for Slack’s mobile experience across platforms, ensuring a high quality bar for our shipped applications.
• Ensuring our applications stay up to date with the changes to Operating Systems standards by staying ahead of upcoming releases and devices.
• Lead projects that focus on the core of the Slack experience, ensuring comprehensible information architecture, building best in class patterns, and evolving our offering to meet the unique customer needs for our mobile experience.
• Ensuring the Slack’s design organization is delivering consistent, cohesive, and accessible work to their cross functional partners through advocacy, evangelism, and investing in robust documentation of our design system.
• Reviewing, auditing, and critiquing your peers design work for mobile platforms through open office hours and asynchronous workflows.
• Work in close collaboration with Design Leadership to inform and improve our design processes.
• Work cross-functionally with Product and Engineering partners to represent the design team, facilitate design discussions, ensure quality implementation, and play an active role in prioritization and planning.
• Work in the open, comfortably sharing your contributions to solicit feedback from your peers, executives, and cross functional partners.

Requirements

• 7-9 years of experience in an individual contributor role on a Product Design team with a heavy focus on building experiences for Android and iOS.
• An outstanding portfolio showcasing excellent application of Product ideation, User centered experiences, and Visual design execution.
• Demonstration of experience and knowledge of building usable, accessible, and modular design solutions that solve for a wide array of customer archetypes.
• Examples of varying approaches of rapidly prototyping concepts individually through design tools, or in close collaboration with engineers, with the goal of bringing alignment of stakeholders of proposed solutions.
• A well displayed understanding of dependencies between design, client and backend technologies and standards.
• Experience that leverages design systems that are used in parallel by designers and engineers.
• Comfort in strategically supporting multiple projects successfully and balancing the needs of different work streams.
• Collaborating and coordinating across multiple teams and their respective designers.

Key Skills

• Product ideation
• User centered experiences
• Visual design execution
• Rapid prototyping
• Collaboration and coordination
• Design systems

Benefits

• Time off programs
• Medical, dental, vision, mental health support
• Paid parental leave
• Life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• Employee stock purchasing program