Bubble

Director, Product Design

Bubble$200K — $259K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of product design experience, especially in PLG SaaS
  • 5+ years leading design teams in high-growth startups
  • Strong recruitment and team development skills
  • Experience with user research and design iteration
  • Passion for implementing design best practices
  • Ability to balance user needs with business objectives
  • Interest in AI and no-code development is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of product designers
  • Define and execute the product design hiring strategy
  • Establish best practices for design processes
  • Ensure efficient exploration and validation of designs
  • Refine and maintain Bubble's design system
  • Engage with users and collaborate across departments
  • Enhance product vision through user research and validation

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage
  • 401(k) matching
  • Wellness and work enablement stipends
  • Generous PTO
  • Sabbatical program
Full Job Description
About the team:We have four product designers on the team and are actively growing the team with two open roles and more growth planned for early next year. The product design team is responsible for the end-to-end experience of building apps on Bubble, including the Bubble home screen, the agent that helps users create and edit their apps, and the editor where users visually design their apps, define workflows, and manage data. Product design at Bubble is responsible for driving the UX, user research & testing, and UI that defines these experiences.

About the role:

We're seeking a Director of Product Design to lead the product design team. This role reports to the VP, Product and will be responsible for building the team, putting in place design processes, refining our design system, iterating on our design vision, and more. In order to accomplish our ambition of becoming the leading AI visual development platform, it needs to be easy to learn Bubble and intuitive to go from idea to production-ready app on the platform, and this role will lead the charge in getting us there.

In This Role You'll:
  • Lead a team of talented product designers, identifying development and growth opportunities and providing regular coaching and feedback
  • Drive product design hiring, including defining the hiring and interview plan and leading the interview process
  • Establish product design best practices and processes across product discovery and delivery
  • Ensure the team is operating efficiently in exploring and validating designs, and scoping and iterating on launches
  • Refine Bubble's design system, ensuring it is modern, intuitive, and applied consistently across the product
  • Lead by example, speaking with users, collaborating cross-functionally, identifying opportunities, and validating ideas
  • Refine our product vision, ideal customer profile, and ideal user journey leveraging research and validating with users


About You:
  • 10+ years of product design experience working on challenging UX problems, including experience in PLG SaaS
  • 5+ years experience leading design teams, ideally having scaled teams in a high-growth startup environment
  • Excited about AI and no-code development, with prior experience a nice-to-have
  • Track record of recruiting world-class senior talent and developing high-performing teams
  • Deep experience guiding teams through user research, design exploration & refinement, and iteration
  • Passion for putting in place design best practices and systems to enable teams to scale effectively
  • Ability to make pragmatic prioritization, scope, and design decisions while balancing user needs, design vision, and business objectives


Compensation:

We offer competitive compensation aligned to tier one markets. Our estimated salary for this role at Bubble ranges from $200,000 to $259,000. Actual pay is determined by multiple factors such as skills, qualifications, experience and market demand.

Location:

For this role, Bubble is currently only considering candidates who are authorized to work in the US. This role is based in our NYC office, and while we're open to remote candidates, we're prioritizing candidates who can work from NYC or who are able to travel to NYC regularly for in-person collaboration. We will provide relocation assistance to those interested in moving to the NYC area.

Benefits:

In addition to cash and equity compensation, Bubble offers a robust benefits package equating to roughly twenty thousand in additional annual compensation:

Our benefits include, but are not limited to:
  • Comprehensive health coverage
  • 401(k) matching
  • Wellness and work enablement stipends
  • Generous PTO
  • A Sabbatical program

About Bubble

Bubble is a software company that provides a platform for building web applications without coding. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Bubble's platform allows users to create web applications by dragging and dropping elements onto a canvas. The platform also includes a database and a visual editor for creating workflows. Bubble's customers include startups, small businesses, and large enterprises. The company is committed to making it easy for anyone to build web applications without needing to know how to code.
Learn more about Bubble
Size
50 employees
Industry
Founded
2012

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