Who: RealSelf
Position: Director of User Experience
Where: Seattle
What: We created RealSelf to bring transparency to a part of the medical industry that too often hid behind gauzy promises and glossy brochures. By empowering consumers, we’ve built the world’s largest, fastest-growing community for people researching cosmetic treatments. Over 55 million unique visitors a year engage on our platform to share real experiences, get answers from doctors, and make empowered choices on a quest to become their best self.
A RealSelf career offers a phenomenal opportunity to help shape a booming organization, disrupt the status quo, and help real people make transformative decisions.
The new UX Director will play a critical role in building and leading a creative team, dedicated to designing beautiful, intuitive, and pleasurable user experiences.
This full-time position reports to the VP of Product at our Seattle office.
Responsibilities:
- Expand, lead, and mentor a team of UX and visual designers
- Ensure consistent and cohesive user experiences across Web, mobile, and marketing
- Lead design reviews and discuss decisions and tradeoffs in an open forum
- Collaborate with PM, Analytics, and Engineering to turn strategic product visions into creative, delightful UX
- Be a “player coach” who’s willing to get your hands dirty
- Utilize A/B testing to drive continual improvements to the site experience
- The unique product designer who’s equally obsessed with visuals and business outcomes
- Comfortable with operating at conceptual levels and down-and-dirty pixel polishing
- A curious and critical thinker, able to articulate complex ideas with humility and humor
- Familiar with the design considerations imposed by technical constraints
- Intensely interested in leveraging user tests and feedback to guide design decisions
- A U.S. citizen or permanent resident and able to work full time in our Seattle offices
Requirements:
- Designing and shipping interfaces for mobile-first users
- Integrating a dynamic UX team into the Agile development workflow
- Building and maintaining pattern libraries in a responsive web product
- Managing web and mobile UX teams (5+ years)
How: Apply Here
