Zola is seeking a Lead Product Designer to be the customer advocate & interpret customer needs into thoughtful design solutions for the iOS & Android platforms. Product Designers at Zola are creative thinkers who effectively communicate their ideas & continuously collaborate with product managers, strategists, & engineers to continually innovate at various stages of product development. The role is responsible for discovery research, concept ideation, creating & overseeing detailed user experience design solutions, & validation research, providing interaction & visual direction from definition to specification. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Apply design principles & user-centered design methodologies to create a great mobile experience for our users
• Define, create, & communicate the experience direction using appropriate tools to describe intent. This includes: sketches, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, & animations
• Lead every stage of product design life cycle including research, ideation, low fidelity design iteration, high fidelity design iteration, animation, & engineering support throughout development
• Collaborate with product managers, marketers, business managers, & engineers to define features
• Plan & execute research activities including tool & method selection, participant recruitment, conducting sessions, & findings synthesis
• Create effective & thoughtful product solutions by considering site analytics, customer feedback, & research findings
• Design solutions that drive measurable business objectives
• Bring inspiring & creative ideas into an energetic & collaborative team in a fast-paced environment
• Provide mentorship for more junior product designers

QUALIFICATIONS

• 6 + years of experience working in a startup, ecommerce or consumer based company 
• Deep knowledge of the HIG & best practices for iOS & Android 
• Experience leading product design within a cross functional team
• Strong visual & interaction design
• Proven experience & understanding of native mobile & mobile web design/development
• Clear understanding of usability, user-centered design, accessibility & web standards
• Successful  management of stakeholders
• Highly proficient in design & prototyping tools such as Figma & Principle
• A portfolio which demonstrates mobile design & problem-solving in the various phases of user-centered design 
• Excellent leadership & communication skills
• Degree in Design-related field

ABOUT ZOLA

We're Zola, the wedding company that will do anything for love. We're reinventing the wedding planning & registry experience to make the happiest moment in our couples lives even happier. From engagement to wedding & decorating your first home, Zola is there, combining compassionate customer service with modern tools & technology all in the service of love. 

We built our entire platform from the ground-up in 2013, & quickly became the fastest-growing wedding company in the country. Our team has deep experience creating award-winning online & mobile products that are helpful, intuitive, & simply magical.   Were proud to have investor partners including Female Founders Fund, Comcast Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Canvas Ventures, Thrive Capital & Lightspeed Venture Partners, among others. 

We are passionate about supporting all forms of love, & were proud of our thriving community of over 1 million couples. We strive to hire a team that is as beautifully diverse as the couples getting married today, & we encourage individuals from every race, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, marital status, religion & perspective to apply. Zola will always be a place where every employee, couple, wedding guest, wedding vendor, & partner will be respected & accepted & valued. 

Our headquarters are in NYC, & we have offices in Charlottesville & Montreal. Come work with us!