MotoRefi is hiringDirector of Product Design

About MotoRefi 

At MotoRefi, we’re on a mission to save car owners $100/month or more with our seamless marketplace and technology platform. Our customers love us (our NPS is 81!), we grew revenue over 5x last year, and team members tell us MotoRefi is a great place to work (read our Glassdoor reviews!). MotoRefi is proud to be backed by a great team of venture and angel investors, including Goldman Sachs, IA Capital Group, Motley Fool Ventures, Moderne Ventures, Gaingels, QED Investors, Accomplice, Link Ventures, the former COO of Venmo, and others.

About the Role

MotoRefi is looking for a seasoned design leader to drive the vision, strategy, and execution of Product Design at MotoRefi. As our Director of Product Design, you will be responsible for building and leading a product designers and researchers team to execute our product roadmap and level up our digital products. Reporting to our VP of Product, you will work collaboratively with peers in Product and Engineering to foster a data and research-driven design culture across the company. The ideal candidate will have successfully led a design team in a previous role, shipped a complex web product to a large user base, and fostered a spirit of learning and teamwork amongst their peers. In this role you will:

• Set the vision for MotoRefi’s product design practices in support of our digital portfolio
• Lead a team of product designers and UX researchers to success. You will make hiring decisions, manage performance, and provide ongoing coaching
• Pair with Product Managers to bring their business cases to life, helping turn identified needs into robust prototypes and flows to drive understanding
• Synthesize needs from Product, Engineering, and Marketing into comprehensive, design deliverables
• Establish process and best practices around research, design, & delivery and champion them across the organization
• Create elegant and useful design systems that define MotoRefi’s experience across its products and help us ship consistent, high-quality experiences
• Lead efforts to quantitatively and qualitatively understand user behavior, and use these insights to drive a holistic product experience

About You

You are a natural leader and influencer who has a love for well-researched and well-crafted digital experiences. You have:

• 3+ years leading a digital design team
• 7+ years of experience in digital design experience or equivalent experience
• A stunning portfolio that demonstrates strategic business thinking, ambitious creative solutions, and cross-platform brand consistency.
• Experience delivering both in consumer and internal stakeholder settings, understanding the unique needs of both
• Experience organizing teams to deliver against a portfolio of products across disparate user groups
• Expertise working in design and prototyping tools like Figma
• Excellent leadership, project management, and people management skills
• Proven ability to mentor and develop junior designers
• Fantastic analytical skills, ability to solve problems quickly, establish new frameworks, ability to think on your feet, and see synergies before others do. You can generalize both problems and solutions.
• Superb verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated experience engaging and influencing executives and evangelizing to stakeholders

Applications without a portfolio site (Dribbble, Behance, etc. are acceptable) will not be considered.

How we will take care of you

Everyone at MotoRefi is a valued team member, and we always strive to live up to our value Take Care of Each Other. Our compensation and benefits package includes: 

• Base salary of $175-$190K annually
• Equity in a high growth startup
• Fantastic health, dental, vision, and mental health insurance, where we cover 100% (yes, 100%!) of the premium for you and your family, and a generous PTO plan
• Company-paid for short & long term disability insurance and basic life insurance 
• Optional benefits include HSAs, FSAs, voluntary life insurance, and pet insurance

Our Values

• See people as people
• Take care of each other
• Commit to the mission
• Move quickly and bravely
• Get better every day
• Seek truth

MotoRefi is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy status, marital status, military or protected veteran status, genetics, or any other characteristic protected by law. This position is not restricted solely to the responsibilities listed above and the scope and responsibilities are subject to change. A pre-employment background check is required as a condition of employment.