Cialfo is a leading platform connecting students, higher education institutions, and counselors through technology-driven solutions. Launched in 2017 with a mission to make education accessible to 100 million students, Cialfo provides a range of mobile and web solutions to students, K-12 institutions, and higher education institutions. We're one of the fastest-growing tech startups in the region, consistently charting new heights!

About This Role

Passionate. Creative. Devoted. Our inspiring design team strives to solve real-world problems and generate large scale impact. They design the seamless structures and processes of each product while accommodating to the customers' psychological needs and ensure not only pleasure in each interaction, but convenience too.

As the Head of Design, you will inspire your team with your bold vision and clear and consistent direction. You will network to find rising stars, lead design reviews at the executive level, evangelize the importance of design and help us measure and quantify the value of design. You will be expected to liaise with other cross-functional executives in product management, engineering, marketing, sales, & customer experience departments. At times, you may need to get your hands dirty and help the team push their project forward. The Head of Design reports to the Chief Product Officer.

What You Will Be Doing

- Applying fundamental user experience, design and research principles to deliver on products that attend to our customer needs.

- Embraces the importance of continuous, rapid testing, improvements, and learning.

- Oversee the entire product design team with hiring, training, coaching and development.

- Define processes, practices, and culture, hiring and onboarding designers to scale the design team.

- Analyze market trends, consumer needs, and the competitive landscape, and track design performance.

- Ensure the team adheres to current processes, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement, and proposing and creating processes and tools to support design operations.

- Develop and implement design vision, strategy, principles, process and systems that will guide the development of our products.

- Transform ideas into creative, simple and responsive designs under technology and time constraints.

- Coach others on best practices for creating wireframes, storyboards, design specs and final feature designs.

- Developing strategic design plans with projected timelines and budgets.

- Maintain cadence with Product Management operating 1-2 quarters ahead of engineering for key projects.

About You

- 10+ years of design experience and a minimum of 5+ years of proven managerial experience.

- Lead product design for the whole company.

- Experience reporting to founders/c-suite/board.

- Experience working in fast-scaling startups (eg: managed through growth from 100 - 1000 employees).

- Experience in SAAS products on web & mobile.

- Strong communication skills for articulating, discussing, and advocating for design decisions.

- Extensive experience collaborating with diverse and cross-functional teams in a dynamic, rapid growth environment.

- Experience using quantitative and qualitative data to inform design decisions and drive change.

- A track record of building, managing, and motivating teams. People want to work on your team again.

- Experience building and maintaining design systems, design principles, and streamlined workflows.

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