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Product Design Lead

OpenGov

OpenGov

Product, Design
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Posted on Jul 13, 2024
OpenGov is home to an exceptional team - passionate about our mission to power more effective and accountable government. By bringing the OpenGov Cloud to our nation's state and local government, we’re transforming communities so they can thrive!
Imagine yourself being able to help small business owners open their doors faster, ensuring our tax dollars are accounted for, creating safer infrastructure, modernizing the permitting process, and assisting with disaster recovery. The work you do here every day has a meaningful impact on people's lives!
Join our smart, fun, and humble team to experience the most rewarding career of your life!
Job Summary:
Manage our design, vision and direction and influence across the entire organization, including our executive leadership. Have a goal to not only understand but also evangelize and deliver business value through a highly usable, delightful, and thoughtfully-designed product suite.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide leadership, mentoring, and guidance to OpenGov’s design team
  • Support the process of implementing and scaling our design methodologies and systems
  • Serve as a champion for user experience across the organization
  • Collaborate at the leadership level to create clarity out of ambiguity, and deliver clear messages and strategies to our teams
  • Develop a deep understanding of our users' unique needs, through various research techniques
  • Champion and implement design strategies that evoke loyalty and delight from our user base
  • Source, attract, hire and retain the best talent

Requirements and Preferred Experience:

  • 7+ years of UX/UI design experience and 2+ years of design leadership experience managing a team of designers
  • Comprehensive understanding of how to apply modern design principles and design systems into practice in the context of a rapidly growing product suite
  • Demonstrated experience designing complex workflows and interfaces for desktop or mobile products proven by a portfolio that highlights past work and your teams’ design decisions
  • History of inspiring and building a cohesive vision
  • Demonstrated ability to lead long-term research-driven strategic projects while ensuring day-to-day design deliverables are timely and well tested
  • A keen understanding of how to implement and use design systems and UI patterns to scale and simplify design execution
  • A passion for making government processes more effective
  • Undergraduate or graduate degree in a related field, or equivalent work experience
  • A Portfolio is required
What makes OpenGov unique
» Leadership: CEO Zac Bookman (MPA from Harvard and JD from Yale) is truly a mission-driven CEO. He was named one of the 100 most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, a Tech Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and SF and Silicon Valley Business Times' 40 under 40 class of 2018!
» Growth: Record breaking growth with 1,800+ governments (and counting) using our products. Click here for read more.
» Product: Named to the GovTech 100 (seven consecutive years), we are the leader in cloud software for our nation's cities, counties, and state agencies.
» Mission Driven: We are a technology company with a passion for the mission. We're powering more effective and accountable government.
Come join us and make a positive social impact!
OpenGov is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.