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Head of Design

Padlet · San Francisco · On-site

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About Padlet

Beautiful boards and canvases for visual thinkers and learners. Used by 40 million people worldwide. Get started for free. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Leading the design of new products, features, and marketing assets.

What they're looking for

  • You like working hard
  • You are honest
  • You've designed beautiful software products
  • You've lead exceptional design teams
  • You've hired exceptional designers
  • Bonus: you have a good sense of humor
More about this role

Padlet is building software for a good education. A good education is one that inspires curiosity, creativity, and community. Our software enables that through visual content creation and collaboration in millions of classrooms worldwide.

There are some products so good, you feel delight using them. You wish you had more problems just so could use them more. Think Dyson vacuum cleaner, a faucet with the perfect laminar flow, a sharp knife, WD40.

We aspire to build such products at Padlet. We are looking for a Head of Design to lead our young, talented design team and help us fulfill this aspiration.

You'll be a player+coach. You'll mentor the team, but also ship designs yourself. This is an in-person role out of our San Francisco office. You'll report directly to the CEO.

Leading the design of new products, features, and marketing assets.

Mentoring and coaching the design team.

Hiring more designers, if necessary.

Putting Padlet in the hands of a billion people.

You like working hard.

You are honest.

You've designed beautiful software products.

You've lead exceptional design teams.

You've hired exceptional designers.

Bonus: you have a good sense of humor.

Vision : Every child in...

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