O.C. Tanner is the global leader in software and services that improve workplace culture through meaningful employee experiences. Our Culture Cloud is a suite of apps designed to enhance the employee experience with strategic recognition, service awards, wellbeing, leadership, and events that help people thrive at work. Our Culture by Design approach provides expert services to organizations looking to create great workplaces.
Our global team of 1,500 people hail from 58 countries and speak 62 languages. As programmers, researchers, designers, client professionals and craftspeople we create the tech, tools and awards that connect employees to purpose at thousands of companies.
Join us as we help people all over the world thrive at work. Here is where we need you most: We are seeking a seasoned design leader to own the end-to-end product experience across our diverse portfolio.
What You'll Do - Set the vision. Establish and communicate a clear design strategy aligned with company goals and multi-product coherence.
- Drive user-centered design. Lead discovery, research, and iterative testing to translate insights into intuitive, high-quality experiences.
- Deliver great experiences. Oversee user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and visual systems that work for everyone across digital and physical touchpoints.
- Build and scale design systems. Create, govern, and evolve our design system and component libraries; set system KPIs, run regular critiques, and lead design sprints to drive adoption and quality.
- Define success metrics. Establish and track user and business level measures to inform continuous improvement.
- Foster collaboration. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Product Marketing to convert data and insights into actionable design decisions.
- Mentor the craft. Grow and inspire a multidisciplinary design team, promoting curiosity, rigor, and continuous learning.
What You Bring - Significant experience leading UX/UI or Product Design teams in fast-paced, cross-functional settings.
- Deep expertise in user-centered design methodologies and the ability to clarify complex problem spaces.
- Proven success building and scaling enterprise-grade design systems and component libraries.
- Balanced strategic vision and hands-on execution.
- Strong communication and facilitation skills that move work forward and drive clear decisions.
- History of shipping high-quality products on time while balancing speed and impact.
- Most important: an exceptional eye for minimal, elegant design, distilling complexity into simple, delightful experiences that set a high bar for the organization.
How We Work - High visibility with senior leadership and autonomy to do your best work.
- Collaborative culture that values work/life balance, curiosity, and thoughtful problem-solving.
