Lead Product Designer

About the Role

Everything at Verkada begins with design. Every part of our product experience is carefully crafted to be simple, elegant, and powerful. As a Lead Product Designer, you will be responsible for delivering best-in-class web and mobile tools (user interface designs, interaction models, prototypes, etc.) in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You’ll work with product managers, designers, and engineers to design our software, from defining a product vision to tweaking pixels before each release.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate closely with designers, engineers, and product managers in a highly agile development environment with quick ideation and prototyping.
• Build and foster a collaborative work environment.
• Run inspiring and formal brainstorming sessions with engineers, product, and other designers.
• Developing product strategies that deliver on customer needs and the company’s vision
• Build clear, concise and intuitive UX/UI with everything from low-fidelity wireframes to pixel perfect final designs.
• Mentoring junior designers, providing constructive feedback and elevating their work to the highest standards.
• Serve as a project lead, co-owning the final product with product and engineering leads.
• Manage multiple projects and stakeholder relationships.
• Manage and maintain a project’s scope and schedule.
• Initiate and participate in user research as needed on key projects.

What You Bring

• 7+ years of product design or mobile product design experience
• Portfolio that demonstrates polished visual and interaction design skills
• Bachelor's degree in design, art, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent
• A drive to solve complex problems with simple and elegant solutions
• Proven experience in creative problem solving and partnering with product, engineering, and other designers to do so
• Experienced in creating and integrating animated visuals and interactive design
• Proficient in: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite 

US Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Fertility Stipend 
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

Additional Information

• We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.