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We are looking for a thoughtful and driven
Director of Product Design to join our growing, distributed team at Coforma!Product design at Coforma serves as the bridge between research and delivery. We work towards business goals as well as user needs with a bias towards scalable systems. We benefit our clients by building holistic, informed design systems while ensuring the rapid delivery of iterative designs to agile development teams. We collaborate with research, content design, product management, engineering, project management, and client business owners, showing up as creative problem solvers who can unearth elegant solutions to complex issues.
As Director of Product Design, you will help us organize, direct, and communicate our design efforts with government agencies, nonprofits, and cause-based organizations. You are a skilled practitioner and a deeply empathetic listener, with relentless curiosity and drive to support and grow your team. Your passion for developing design strategies, informed by insights of real people and key business needs, will inspire and ground your peers. You’ll help us better understand the people we aim to serve, the needs of the organizations and agencies we work with, and the changes we can make to have a large and lasting impact.
$170,980 to $183,340 Annual Salary + Benefits + Growth Potential
Placement within the provided salary range will be based on the competency level of the candidate:
Tier 1: $170,980 — Meets minimum qualification/experience requirements. Beyond onboarding, will need additional guidance and training to perform key responsibilities of the role.
Tier 2: $177,984 — Experienced and fully-competent. Beyond onboarding, can independently perform key responsibilities of the role.
Tier 3: $183,340 — Highly-experienced and can perform all responsibilities of the role at a higher level than expected once onboarding is completed.
To honor our company-wide equitable pay system, the posted salary range is non-negotiable.
The job posting for this role is set to close by 5:00pm PST on Friday, February 16th, 2024.
The desired start date for this role is mid-March 2024.
This is a US-based remote position (open to applicants in select states listed below) and some travel will be required.
Note: to ensure we remain compliant with all state, county, and local employment and tax regulations, applicants must currently reside in one of the following states to be considered for employment with Coforma. This list will be updated periodically as our PeopleOps team works to open up hiring in additional states.
-Arizona
-California
-District of Columbia
-Florida
-Georgia
-Idaho
-Illinois
-Maine
-Maryland
-Massachusetts
-Montana
-Nevada
-New York
-North Carolina
-Oregon
-Tennessee
-Texas
-Washington
-Wisconsin
What You’ll Do
You’ll serve as a senior member of the Design team and will work with Design leadership to help manage team health, focusing on the Product Design practice area. You’ll manage a set of product designers, providing guidance on how best to staff them to projects, directly coaching and mentoring them, and supporting their career path and development. You'll collaboratively run the product design practice area—which will include yourself, your reports, and your principal-level product design peers—to help ensure the practice is appropriately balanced, mutually supportive, and resilient. You’ll provide clear, strong, visible, and authentic leadership within the Design team and your practice area, and proactively seek active collaboration across practice areas and with other departments.
Simultaneously, you’ll produce work that inspires designers both inside and outside of the company. You’ll help set the bar for client interaction for day-to-day work and encounters, directly contributing and stepping in to support the designers who rely on you within projects where needed.
Client and Project Work
Management and Internal Initiatives
Required Experience
Required Skills
Preferred Experience and Skills
Additional Requirements
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Salary and Benefits
Annual Salary: The salary range for this position is
$170,980 to $183,340 per year, in line with our company-wide equitable pay scale. (Tier 1: $170,980 | Tier 2: $177,984 | Tier 3: $183,340)Professional Development: Design team members are provided with AIGA memberships to support with training and up-skilling, certifications, resources and inspiration, community building, and industry discounts. Additionally, all employees are provided a $2,000 professional development fund each year that can be used for books, conferences, online lessons and certifications, and more.
Unlimited Paid Time Off: Available after the first 90 days of employment, you can enjoy unlimited paid time off, plus the last week of the year off every year.
Paid Holidays: Coforma offers generous paid holiday time off including Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Juneteenth, Indigenous Peoples Day, and US national election day.
Leave Coverage: We provide other kinds of leave which include paid sick leave, paid family leave, military leave, and bereavement leave, all available after 90 days of employment.
Medical Coverage: We offer multiple medical insurance plans for employees, paying for either 80% or 100% of the premium depending on the plan selected. We cover 50% of the premium for spouses, domestic partners, and other qualifying dependents including same-gender family dynamics.
Dental and Vision Coverage: We cover 100% of the premium for dental and vision insurance for employees and 50% of the premium for spouses, domestic partners, and child(ren).
Pre-Tax Spending Accounts: Pre-tax Health Spending Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and Dependent FSA options are available for employees, spouses, domestic partners, child(ren), and qualifying elderly dependents.
401(k) Plan with Match: We match up to 4% of the employee’s salary in a Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan, allow immediate vesting, and also provide both Roth options, which are available to employees after 90 days of employment.
Additional Information
We participate in E-Verify. Upon hire, we will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
Due to the nature of our work with the federal government, this role is required to work from the contiguous United States.
We're Coforma
The stress of job searching can make you wonder if you’re enough. Studies have even shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs when they don’t meet every qualification. We believe that you ARE enough, and that it’s okay not to meet every requirement. We’re building a culture that’s authentic, inclusive, and diverse. If you’re excited to work with us but not sure you check every box, apply anyway! You may be just right for this role or another one.
About Us
We use creativity to get results for clients and the communities they serve.
We’ve honed a modern, agile, user-centered approach that elevates human needs through thoughtfully-designed systems and products.
From connecting families in crisis at the US border to improving the way governments consume COVID-19 mobility data through a more accessible and user-friendly tool, we’re dedicated to improving people’s lives through thoughtful technology products and services. Together. Our cross-functional team works closely with each other and with our government, nonprofit, and commercial partners to research, design, and build better products and services.
Coforma employs over 100 talented creators. Our leadership has decades of experience in improving government digital services from a civic service mindset, and a strong record of developing innovative technology solutions for government, enterprise, and nonprofits.
We thoughtfully integrate design into product development. We are experts in leading the design and development of products to meet business goals, build alignment, and deliver value through technically feasible and iterative design activities.
Business objectives and human beings are at the center of our work. We work very closely and collaboratively with our partners, from solicitation through to delivery, to ensure that the solution provides a high level of value to the business. Accessibility is never overlooked in our work, and our iterative approach validates the utility and delight of the final product.
Equal Opportunity & Inclusive Workplace
Coforma is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination. Background checks and other security clearances may be required for some roles as it relates to the nature of our client work.
Our team and our office aims to be an accessible and hospitable place to work. We welcome applicants, contractors, and employees who are committed to improving our culture and practices.
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