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About the Role

Lead product designers are pivotal in driving complex design projects with high levels of complexity and ambiguity. They understand the vision, oversee the design process, shape the user experience, and drive the product's success through strategic design thinking, leadership, mentorship, cross-functional collaboration, hands-on design work, and deep knowledge of user needs, business goals and emerging technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Thinking and Delivery

  • Shape program design strategy: Define a clear design strategy that effectively addresses user needs, business goals, and market trends despite high levels of ambiguity.
  • Overseeing design deliverables: Ensure design deliverables meet high-quality standards, usability, and functionality, conduct thorough reviews, and provide guidance as needed.
  • Support program expansion and extension: Work with managers and program leaders to develop proposals, deliver compelling presentations that underscore value, and drive the program's growth and success.
  • Resource delegation: Manage the design team's resources effectively, allocating designers based on project priorities, PTO, and strategic objectives.
  • Actively contribute to deliverables: A blend of leadership skills and design expertise. Work as an individual contributor dedicated to a squad. Cover your design team's PTO and gaps in the program as required.

  Team and Client Collaboration

  • Build strategic relationships: Foster strong relationships with key stakeholders and effectively communicate design decisions, rationale, and outcomes to gain buy-in and support.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to our clients: Provide insight and guidance, serving as the primary point of contact for design-related inquiries, updates, and decisions. Communicate effectively and self-sufficiently with client stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment and transparency.
  • Participate in hiring and onboarding: Work closely with design hiring managers to confidently evaluate candidates based on project requirements and fit. Create program onboarding materials and guide new joiners through the Foundry's onboarding process. 
  • Promote cross-functional collaboration: Help establish close relationships with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, and stakeholders, to ensure alignment and support throughout the design process.

  Leadership, Coaching, and Mentorship

  • Drive innovation and excellence: Provide targeted, individualized feedback, guidance, and mentorship, set high standards for quality and innovation, unblock potential problems, and ensure we deliver the best solution.
  • Maintain a positive and productive team: Set a clear north star for positivity. When faced with adversity, lead with unwavering optimism and rally your team when necessary instead of negatively impacting morale.
  • Supporting continuous improvement: Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and design tools to improve design processes and deliverables. Encourage a culture of experimentation and learning within the design team.
  • Evangelize leadership in design culture: Champion a strong organizational design culture that prioritizes design excellence, design thinking, user-centered design principles, and the importance of design in creating successful products.

About You

The essentials:

No specific professional degree is required for this position.  

• • 8+ years of product design experience.
  • Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate and influence.
  • Experience working on large-scale, complex, ambiguous projects across multiple teams.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly and persuasively. 
  • Experience in end-to-end product design to design impactful solutions to challenging problems.

At .Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

What We Offer

.Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Media.Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting .Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

What We Offer

Benefits

• Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
• Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
• 401k with company contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
• Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Monks network 
• A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
• Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)

Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

Salary Range$142,820—$171,148 USD

About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.