Lead Product Designer

Cyber security is one of the fastest growing priorities across industries, with over half of developers expecting it to become even more important over the next 12-18 months.

Here at Secure Code Warrior (SCW), we’re focused on transforming security and compliance from a check-box on the roadmap to an always-on mindset across the DevOps cycle. Our approach focuses on upskilling developers through gamification of learning and integrating with their preferred tool sets, such as GitHub and Jira. With SCW, companies are able to differentiate from their competition, and ship code faster and more securely than ever.

Founded in 2015 out of Australia, we are a truly global remote-first company with employees all across the globe including Australia, America, Belgium, England, Iceland and more. Plus, an exciting list of global brands that we’re proud to include as our customers, such as JP Morgan Chase & Co, Zoom, and Atlassian.

After raising Series B in 2019, from firms such as Goldman Sachs and Cisco Investments, we’re excited to be in the next phase of our growth, focusing on scaling the business to bring secure coding education and developer tools to the world

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Top Employee Benefits: *
Global Flexible Work Schedule
Unlimited Paid Time Off (really, we mean it)
Equity/Share Options
Remote/ Optional Hybrid (Office space available in some locations)
12 Weeks Gender Neutral Parental Leave

Do you love products that help people learn? Are you a passionate designer that loves to collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and fellow designers?

Come design your future at Secure Code Warrior You will be key in working with the Head of Design to establish the design culture and create delightful customer experiences in a growing organization moving quickly from a startup into a scaleup. We are building a high quality, high performing global design team and are currently seeking a Lead Product Designer.

The Lead Product Designer will manage our strategic domains including growth, integrations, and intelligence. As a design lead you will provide guidance to other designers in your area, serve as a thought leader and mentor, and affect real change delivering impactful, data driven designs with high visibility throughout our organization.

In this role you will have hands-on involvement in all aspects of design including research, strategy, and coordinating with other members of the design team. Your work will touch on ux design, visual design, interaction design, and work with a dynamic team of product managers and developers. We’re looking for an on-trend, seasoned designer who wants to grow their skills as a leader and a mentor.

**What will you be doing?**
- Owning the end-to-end design process for new features and iterations for a product used across the globe.
- Driving the vision, strategy and research efforts for your strategic domain.
- Meeting with customers, prospects and internal stakeholders like Customer Success and Sales teams to drive innovation in your domain.
- Contributing to the creation and optimization of a sustainable experience that leads to long-term, engaged users.
- Measuring KPIs and ensuring product alignment across the organization.
- Balancing trade offs of time spent innovating with the ability to ship efficiently and successfully and manage design’s roadmap accordingly.
- Working collaboratively with your Product and Engineering partners to identify and solve customer, product and business
- Evangelizing design across the organization through process, advocating to achieve the best outcomes.
- Managing and mentoring 1-2 designers in your region, helping them to think critically and improve their craft.

**We’d be delighted to hire someone who has**:

- Extensive product design experience in software, or combined experience as a SaaS UX Designer, Interaction Designer, Visual Designer, researcher, or other related disciplines
- Strong understanding of web and mobile technologies, some coding experience a plus
- Expertise with Figma, Adobe XD, Zeplin and other industry standard design tools.
- A strong portfolio of product design and design systems work, including designs that showcase both an ability to think and articulate in depth about solving user problems.
- A passion for launching new products and features with demonstrated levels of success.
- Strong communication skills with cross-departmental teammates, and the ability to communicate ideas clearly.
- A growth mindset and openness to new ideas with an interest in providing and receiving feedback.
- An interest in coaching and mentoring junior designers.
- The ability to manage time and schedules to meet aggressive deadlines and influence through persuasive written and verbal communication.
- Attention to detail and strong technical intuition, as well as the ability to set and manage expectations at the executive level.
- A combination of excellent leadership skills and superior interpersonal / communicatio