Who We Are
We're Awari – a team of passionate problem-solvers, working hard to build a career development platform where the best talent in Latam comes to advance their careers. Over the past four years we've grown to thousands of members, and have been growing revenues by over 600% YoY since launch. We're backed by top-tier investors such as YCombinator and the founders of Viva Real (Brian Requarth), Guia Bolso (Thiago Alvarez) and Product Hunt (Ryan Hoover).
About The Role
Awari is looking for a Lead Designer to join our team! This person will play a key role in transforming our current product and defining future product direction. You will be doing:
- You'll collaborate with design leads and cross-functional collaborators to help craft the vision and strategies behind some of the most important and exciting initiatives in the company.
- Set the bar high by knowing what quality looks like and how to help product teams ship at that quality with minimal impact on velocity.
- Drive standard methodologies in overall experiences and product design -- way beyond the visual.
- Help designers and researchers become the collaborative glue that encourages product management and engineering while also developing their strengths at envisioning what could be.
- Help designers develop a wide array of hard and soft skills based on their career goals and what the team needs
- Run design reviews, crits, sprints, and own some of your own projects
- You should feel comfortable changing elevations quickly, from high-level critical thinking to evaluating research, interaction, and visual design execution.
Job Requirements
- Demonstrate long-term thinking around strategic and business-focused activities.
- Will have shipped many successful software products with a significant impact on the user experience and business.
- Extensive experience conducting and/or collaborating with user research and data science to demonstrate their respective insights
- Will have managed and mentored both junior and more senior product designers.
- Proven track record to provide thought leadership and guide a team towards achieving a common goal.
- Excellent communication and analytical skills.
- Experience working on subscription-based product experiences is a plus
Benefits
- 100% remote working – work from anywhere you like, however you like
- 30 days of annual leave + 8 public holidays
- Benefits card with budget for Netflix, Spotify and others
- Free Awari membership to enroll in courses and get mentorship from experts
- Access to company offsites and team retreats
- Competitive stock options package
We will be closing the role as soon as we find the right candidate. If you feel we can be a great fit for each other, apply to our role and we’ll be more than happy to review your profile.
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