Head of Design

Full Time Opportunity
As Head of Design, you will play a critical role in our Product Engineering team, partnering with other leaders to engage stakeholders throughout the business in establishing a robust user experience design practice that permeates through everything we do.
**You will**:

- Develop and communicate a compelling user-centred design vision and strategy
- Mentor and coach your team to help integrate this design consistently and efficiently to meet business objectives
- Champion design excellence, ensuring high standards of quality, creativity and innovation
- Contribute to product discovery
- Work as part of the Product Engineering leadership team to embed a product-led culture across the company
- Act as design advocate with the organisation, promoting the value of design and influencing key stakeholders to support design initiatives

**What you will bring to the team**:

- Strong experience as a leader in the design space
- Proven experience in a senior design leadership role, preferably as a 'head of' or similar, in a product centric organisation
- Demonstrable experience in product discovery and understanding of the end-to-end life cycle in a product centric organisation and how effective design can influence this
- A strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in visual and interaction design, service design, user research and creating design systems
- Excellent collaboration and influencing skills, particularly with regard to working cross-functionally and with executive leaders
- Highly developed leadership and mentoring skills, with experience in leading a team of UX designers
- Strong familiarity with the Life Insurance industry (desirable)

Our Promise to Our People
We are passionate about our core values of Customer First, We Care, One Team, and Results Driven, which define how we approach our work.
We recognise that our colleagues are the key to our success. That's why you can expect to be rewarded for the hard work you put in through job satisfaction, career development and the fantastic range of benefits we offer:

- A hybrid working week of in-house collaboration and working from home flexibility
- Your own parking space onsite, or an annual $1200 travel allowance
- Modern building facilities including a dedicated & subsidised on-site company café (weekly free lunch)
- Free access to on-site company gym
- Health & well-being initiatives and programs
- Additional 'flexi-days' of leave acquired through tenure with the business
- Cashback discounts on a range of Insurance products through our Real Insurance brand
- Career development pathways and opportunity to take part in in-house leadership & emotional intelligence workshops
- Quarterly award functions and a grand annual conference to recognise our people
- Retail discounts e.g. movie tickets, easter show, live shows + more
- Morsl market (a fully automated self-serve, food and drink marketplace with a wide variety of meals, snacks and drinks)

Who We Are
Greenstone distributes insurance products under trusted brands in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Some of our brands include: Real Insurance, Australian Seniors, New Zealand Seniors, OneChoice, RSPCA Pet Insurance, Kogan Australia, SPCA Pet Insurance, Prime Pet Insurance, North Cover, FiftyUp, Guardian and Choosi.
We are the leading distributor of direct Insurance products in the Australian insurance market. Since launching into the Financial Services sector in 2007, Greenstone has experienced a commanding volume of growth being recognised for our credible brands, customer focused values and people-driven work culture.
We are passionate about our core values, which contribute towards the positive culture that supports our employees, our customers and our community.
Location
Great central location in Norwest Business Park, Norwest, only a short walk from Norwest Metro station and also direct bus access from Parramatta and Blacktown.
If this role interests you, we would love to hear from you