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Head of Design and Research

Ladders 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

$274,000 - $289,000 Full-time Executive

Lead a team of designers and researchers to oversee the quality and consistency of consumer and payment design experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate design into product discovery and implement AI-driven solutions to scale research and design.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of designers and researchers to oversee the quality and consistency of consumer and payment design experiences. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate design into product discovery and implement AI-driven solutions to scale research and design.

Requirements

  • Requires deep experience in consumer product design within fintech or transaction-driven industries, specifically scaling applications to over 10M monthly active users. Must have a proven track record of leading design teams and using data-driven UX metrics to influence strategic decisions.

Benefits

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Equity options
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Family planning support
  • Paid parental leave
  • Physical fitness and wellness subsidies
  • Emotional and mental health resources
  • Unlimited paid time off
  • 10 paid federal holidays
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Lunch reimbursement
  • Employee Resource Groups
  • Learning and Development budget

Key Skills

consumer product design fintech transaction-driven industries design leadership data-driven UX metrics strategic decision-making cross-functional collaboration AI-driven solutions design research

About Ladders

We lead the leaders. Ladder’s community of 10 mm leading professionals come to us to be inspired, grow in their careers, and get ahead in their professional lives. We focus on the $100K+ job market, representing 25% of all jobs and about 50% of income in the US & Canada. We build data-driven tools, marketplaces, news and entertainment products for our growing audience, and the companies, recruiters, and advertisers that want to reach them. We work best with people who enjoy using their talents, commitment and hard work to achieve great successes for millions of real life users through products that impact their careers. We are deeply technology-driven -- about half the company are engineers, technical product people or product designers -- but we never build technology for technology’s sake. We’re always trying to connect our efforts to the good it can do in people’s lives.

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