Senior Director of Digital Experience Design

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Michigan.

📋 Description

• Define and lead the design vision for all customer-facing digital interfaces, encompassing web, mobile, in-vehicle HMI, and future experiences.

• Convert Slate’s brand and product strategy into a unified, human-centered digital design approach.

• Represent customer interests in discussions regarding roadmaps, sprint reviews, and executive meetings.

• Establish and uphold quality standards from initial concepts to final production delivery.

• Mentor, guide, and develop UI designers, UX designers, and copywriters.

• Recruit to address capability gaps as Slate transitions from pre-launch to post-launch phases.

• Foster a culture of craftsmanship, curiosity, and constructive feedback.

• Create career development pathways and growth frameworks for designers.

• Own and advance Slate’s digital design system across web and native applications.

• Scale version-controlled design artifacts, component libraries, and documentation.

• Enhance the design team’s workflow within the agile delivery framework.

• Promote shared tooling, design tokens, and handoff processes.

• Implement a streamlined UX research practice utilizing user testing, usability evaluations, and data-driven iterations.

• Collaborate with Product and Software leaders to prioritize roadmaps, define requirements, and navigate design-engineering tradeoffs.

• Work together with brand, marketing, and vehicle design teams.

• Partner with the in-vehicle software team on instrument cluster and HMI experiences.

• Represent the design team in discussions at the executive and board levels.

⛳️ Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in product design, UX, or UI design focusing on high-volume consumer/customer experiences.

• Minimum of 7 years in a leadership role, including managing managers or team leads.

• Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end ownership of intricate digital products.

• Experience across strategy, research, interaction design, visual design, and implementation.

• Extensive experience in creating and sustaining design systems using atomic design principles.

• Proven partnership with product and engineering teams in sprint planning, backlog management, and technical tradeoff discussions.

• Experience in designing for web, native mobile, embedded systems, or in-vehicle UIs.

• Proficiency in Figma and modern prototyping methodologies.

• Experience utilizing GenAI in an agile production setting.

• Familiarity with establishing team-wide design tooling standards.

• Experience in leading A/B and multivariate testing to enhance customer experience.

• Strong instincts in UX research.

• Exceptional communication skills for executive presentations, collaborative whiteboarding, and written design justifications.

• Bachelor’s degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Product Design, Graphic Design, Computer Science, or a related field — or equivalent professional experience.

• Preferred: background in growth design and/or interaction design.

• Preferred: experience in leading design for emerging or expanding e-commerce or digital marketplaces.

• Preferred: working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and component-based front-end frameworks such as MUI or Tailwind.

• Preferred: master’s degree in HCI, Interaction Design, or a related field.

• Preferred: experience in scaling a design team from the early stages through a significant product launch.

• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States permanently.

• Visa sponsorship is not available.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Life insurance

• Disability insurance

• Vacation

• 401k

• Potential eligibility for equity program

• Potential eligibility for discretionary annual incentive program

• Reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities