POSTED Oct 26

Manager, Product Design at Vidyard

  • Product
  • Fulltime
  • Anywhere (100% Remote) Only
Job Description

Vidyard helps businesses and professionals connect with their audiences in a whole new way through engaging, personalized, and measurable video experiences. Through its global video hosting and analytics platform, Vidyard empowers businesses from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises to transform their approach to marketing, sales, and corporate communications. Through its free and pro tools, Vidyard helps any business professional create and share custom videos to deliver their message in a more personal and impactful way. Thousands of businesses and millions of people around the world rely on Vidyard for their video needs.

A Product Design Manager at Vidyard is a leader who is passionate about creating compelling video products based on insights from real people and is constantly thinking about the user, the business, and the technology.

You will represent the voice of design collaborating with Product and Engineering to help define product vision, opportunities, and the processes needed to execute for success. You'll have the opportunity to grow and mentor a team of talented Product Designers ranging from Associate to Senior Level.

This is a remote position.

See Remote @ Vidyard for details

In this role you will focus on:

  • Product Strategy: Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering to define and communicate a strategic vision and high-level objectives for the product areas you manage. Develop a deep understanding of Vidyard's various business lines, goals and key health metrics. Ensures team roadmaps are user-centered, data-informed and consider the entire product ecosystem.
  • Career Growth & Mentorship: Understand the personal and professional objectives for the designers you manage and helps set clear, realistic, action-oriented goals with each designer. Develop effective, growth-centered mentor relationships with the Product Designers on your team. Through regular 1:1s and informal interactions, collaborate with Product Designers through complex design problems and product ideation.
  • Data: Advocate for data in every project by helping define what qualitative and quantitative data will be important in the work. Help align learnings with the rest of product development in order to enhance everyone's understanding of our products and users. Consistently hold designers accountable for examining their choices through the lens of data, and fosters a learning culture both within Design and the larger Product organization.
  • Communication: Communicate with leaders across the organization to articulate what is being worked on by your teams, why it is being done, the goals, and the expected outcome.
  • Culture: Establish and maintain a healthy, collaborative culture across product teams. Help lead design crits, collaborative workshops, processes and other rituals to spread design thinking and enthusiasm throughout Vidyard.

Qualifications:

  • Design leadership experience at a product-led growth organization, ideally with a freemium to paid product
  • Ability to lead a team accountable for end-to-end design process, from UX Research, Ideation to high fidelity prototypes.
  • Strong design facilitation skills
  • A strong understanding of the research and testing methods required to develop customer empathy and validate ideas.
  • Experience with experimentation frameworks
  • Proficient at defining (and refining) use cases, personas, and jobs to be done in B2B SaaS
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

To apply you will:

  • Submit your resume and cover letter describing your unique fit for this role
  • A portfolio of design work that showcases your UX and design skill sets
  • Include links to your portfolio, Instagram, Dribbble, etc. where we can learn more about your work!

Life as a Vidyardian:

You will have the opportunity to create your own destiny in your role by generating and managing your own projects and seeing the impact of your work. At Vidyard you will work alongside the best and brightest in the industry. We hire carefully for technical expertise and cultural fit, and are proud of our team!

On top of competitive pay, we offer generous subsidies for health & wellness and continuing education. We also offer three flexible benefit plans to suit your unique needs, so choose what’s best for you/your family and your coverage starts as soon as you do.

Along with the health benefits and health/lifestyle spending accounts, additional benefits include unlimited vacation, RRSP match programs, ESOP and learning and development spending accounts.

Vidyard also offers paid volunteer opportunities! At Vidyard, giving back is in our DNA. No matter where we are, we always want to be committed to giving back as part of our commitment to our communities. So choose a cause that is important to you within your own community and give back, on us!

Finally, our teams never miss an opportunity to have fun! Be prepared to enjoy virtual parties (often paired with special deliveries, special guests and sometimes surprises!) and take part in internal communities based on your interests/hobbies!

Remote @ Vidyard

As a video centric organization, Vidyard mastered the art of remote work long before the pandemic forced businesses to adapt. So, whether you are located close to one of our collaboration spaces in Vancouver, BC, & Kitchener, ON, or if home is anywhere else in Canada, you will not only be an integral part of the team, you’ll feel like an integral part of the team.

In order to ensure an enjoyable work experience for all employees, Vidyard is dedicated to ensuring all Vidyardians have an opportunity to:

  • Level up their home office/workspace,
  • Socialize meaningfully within teams as well as across the organization,
  • Enjoy a flexible work schedule (We know your time is valuable! Own your work in a way that best suits your lifestyle)

We believe that working remotely shouldn’t cause any barriers to a great employee experience, so from onboarding to day to day operations, when you work remotely at Vidyard your colleagues and leaders are only as far as a virtual tap on the shoulder away.

We thank all applicants for your interest in Vidyard. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Agency calls will not be accepted.

Vidyard is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants who require reasonable accommodation to complete the application and/or interview process should notify the Talent Acquisition Team. 

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