Director, Product Design - WhatsApp Business

Job description

At Meta, we’re shaping innovative experiences in service of giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Our multidisciplinary design teams are creating new ways to help people connect, find communities and grow businesses. Together, we are committed to building innovative technologies — Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Workplace, Meta Quest and more — to serve billions of people around the globe.

Meta is looking for a Product Design Director with exceptional design, communication and people management skills. As a Product Design Director, you will lead and manage teams to ensure our products and features are valuable for people, easy to use, and of the highest level of craft and execution. In this role, you'll be a foundational member on the leadership team, working together with your counterparts in engineering, data science, UX research, content design, and other disciplines to define the strategy, operations and communications that guide the team to build great products addressing real user needs.

You’ll be expected to utilize your full range of people management skills, product strategy, product design, interaction design and visual design skills. This posting represents different full-time roles across the Meta company.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage a team of product designers, artists, and leaders that consistently delivers on projects and is well-balanced across a range of design skill sets
• Drive collaboration and vision across the company to build alignment on priorities leading to product design and execution Shape the product roadmap, both short term and long-term
• Partner closely with a world-class (and global) team of product managers, engineers, content designers, user experience researchers, research scientists, and artists to deliver high quality experiences for people across markets, platforms and product surfaces
• Oversee multiple projects and scale design resources accordingly, ensuring deadlines are met, your organization is effective, and team members are set up for success by setting clear and measurable goals.

Your team will be a key dependency for all other teams so must balance working on different timelines for a variety of product releases especially well

• Develop design talent and build a thriving environment where designers grow in their careers
• Design and scale the organization and equip the team for success in their goals
• Foster a collaborative design practice as a leader beyond the confines of the Design discipline

Qualifications

Experience creating design systems

• 6+ years of leadership experience with direct reports under your guidance and leadership, including hiring and developing managers and individual contributors
• 10+ years of experience in Product Design
• 10+ years of experience working collaboratively with product, engineering, design, content and user research teams People management, team development, recruiting and organization building experience Experience growing a strategic design practice within design teams Visual and interaction experience in software design Organizational and analytical experience Experience managing a design system team and a team of creatives (Visual Designers, Art Directors, Creative Directors)