Lead Product Designer, UX Systems

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work. 

Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,500 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.

For more information visit cultureamp.com.

How you can help make a better world of work

Culture Amp is seeking a Lead Designer with expertise in systems thinking for B2B or Enterprise software to join our Innovation Studio Team. In this role, you will contribute to shaping the future of our platform by identifying patterns and designing high level solutions to drive alignment, inform technical solutions and coordinate planning with product teams.

Reporting to Culture Amp’s Chief Designer, you will lead efforts to envision platform unification, innovative cross-product workflows and AI capabilities. In tight collaboration with user researchers and people scientists, you’ll leverage deep human insights to unlock value for users. You’ll make bold ideas tangible and collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify roadmappable big bets that make progress towards our vision.

You’ll leverage technology developments combined with design knowledge to evolve design processes and uplift craft across the practice. As a functional leader, you’ll mentor designers and contribute to our design communities of practice. You will lead playback and co-creation workshops to integrate bold ideas into product roadmaps and guide product strategy.

You've built your career by working on complex software for multiple user types, driving consistency and streamlined workflows. You’ve worked on industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for the businesses that deliver them. You have your finger on the pulse of innovation in design systems, cutting edge patterns and workflows.

The ideal candidate thrives at the intersection of creativity and systems thinking, is detail-oriented, and excels at simplifying complex challenges into clear, actionable solutions. 

As part of this team of amazing humans, 

You will 

• Shape the future vision of our platform by aligning design principles, patterns and guidelines with the broader product strategy.
• Use a variety of mapping and design storytelling methods to paint a picture of holistic, systems-based solutions.
• Leverage human centered insights and people science as a source for innovation.
• Collaborate tightly with designers to innovate on how we take a unified systems-first approach.
• Partner with the design systems team on implementation of patterns and templates.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across the product organisation to identify roadmappable projects that move us towards our vision.
• Mentor designers and contribute to our design communities of practice.
• Leverage  developments combined with design knowledge to evolve design processes and uplift craft across the practice.

You have 

• 5+ years experience in a design-related field.
• A portfolio of high quality case studies, demonstrating designing for complex software.
• Experience working with diverse cross-functional teams and influencing decision-making at multiple levels of an organisation.
• Experience developing a range of design artifacts to tell a story and drive alignment.
• Experience designing enterprise software leveraging a mature design system.

We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are: 

• Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
• Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
• Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
• Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
• Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
• Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
• Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
• Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
• 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
• MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
• Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only) 

Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place. 

We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.

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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.

We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!

Thank you for taking the time to read this advert. If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding Germany). Please watch this video from our amazing DEI Leader, Aubrey Blanche to share more on why we collect the data and how we will use it. 

 

 

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