Product Design Lead

Vori•San Francisco, CA

50d•Hybrid

About The Position

We’re looking for a creative, entrepreneurial Product Design Lead to help our core product team reimagine how grocery stores operate. On this team you’ll work to deeply understand the biggest pain points of owners, managers, and staff to craft workflows that feel both powerful and accessible. As part of the growing design team, you’ll make high impact on our design, product, and company strategy as we scale our hardware and software system into grocery stores across the country. We’re looking for a seasoned designer who is excited to roll up their sleeves and work across a wide product surface area, drive research in the field, ship prototypes and iterate in our stores. Your ability to prioritize, lead, and execute quickly at the right design fidelity for our level of product maturity will deliver high impact across the entire organization. This role is based in San Francisco, with a hybrid office culture (1-2 days per week). As part of UX field research, each quarter there may be travel to our customer sites across the country. This role reports to the Head of Design.

Requirements

You have 6+ years designing applications across a variety of B2B industries
Experience leading UX research initiatives within your product teams
Can lead with independence and yet work collaboratively across departments
Can quickly design at multiple fidelities, from scrappy, napkin-sketch whiteboards to production-ready work without sweating the details
Passionate about prototyping or building with AI tools
Have worked in a startup environment or have built 0-1 products

Nice To Haves

Experience working with or interest in physical hardware and design
Previous experience designing for retail, supply chain, or logistics-related industries
Foodies with an opinion

Responsibilities

Own design for our core platform. This includes everything from intelligent pricing to multi-location workflows, reporting, e-commerce, and more.
Design innovative, delightful experiences for our grocery store owners, staff and their loyal shoppers.
Shape our product strategy. Collaborate closely with product & engineering leads to identify high leverage opportunities and bring them to life.
Design for bits and atoms. Sweat the details and connect the dots between workflows that span the physical and digital world to make complex tasks feel simple.
Thrive in 0→1. Help your team break down ambiguous problems, using design to inspire and generate clarity when bringing new concepts to life.
Talk to customers, constantly. Lead user research to build a deep understanding of their needs, and amplify their voices throughout the team to drive empathy and alignment.
Foster a strong design culture with design leadership and the executive team around best practices, lead by example on craft for our current stage of growth, and continually evolve our design system