Head of Product Design

| Chicago, IL, USA | Hybrid
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As Head of Product Design at Tegus, you will directly influence our ability to modernize and streamline the way institutional investors and companies conduct financial research through our all-in-one platform. As our design leader, you will collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and our go-to-market teams to ensure that our design strategy and execution drive value to our customers and align tightly with our brand identity. Some of the key user experience challenges you’ll oversee are creating easy navigation of large bodies of quantitative and qualitative data, devising summary-level waypoints that point deep into our content, and automating detailed financial research steps using AI tooling.


Reporting to the SVP of Product, you will partner with C-level executives and other key stakeholders to integrate and embed design thinking into every product design decision we make. You will build, nurture, and inspire a high-velocity and high-performance team, fostering a culture of innovation, ideation, and continuous improvement. You will roll up your sleeves when necessary, helping to paint a picture of our product vision and coaching our design team in the details of their work.

Responsibilities

  • Define and articulate the company's product design vision, strategy, and goals; aligning them with the overall business objectives.
  • Lead, grow, and inspire a diverse team of product designers, researchers, and visual designers, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Partner with C-level executives and other key stakeholders to integrate design thinking into strategic decision-making processes and drive business growth.
  • Establish and maintain design standards, processes, and best practices to ensure consistency, quality, and efficiency across all design initiatives.
  • Drive innovation by exploring emerging technologies, trends, and user behaviors, and leveraging them to create breakthrough design solutions.
  • Advocate for customer-centricity and accessibility, ensuring that our products/services are inclusive and meet the needs of diverse user groups.
  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, engineering, marketing, and customer support, to deliver cohesive and compelling experiences.

Qualifications

  • 12+ years experience in designing digital products required, with an emphasis on strategic Product and UX systems thinking.
  • 5 years experience in a design leadership role, with experience building and maturing design teams and processes within a growth stage business.
  • Proven track record of leading successful complex B2B design initiatives from concept to launch to iteration, inclusive of setting and hitting quantitative and qualitative success metrics.
  • Proficient in design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, and Figma, and in creating pragmatic design systems.
  • Proficient in interaction design, information architecture, and at least one more UX competency: user research, visual design, or product design.
  • Ability to lead design conversations within a team or group context, to reason through complex problems and arrive at elegant solutions in a collaborative way.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with the ability to work cross-functionally with internal partners and external partners alike

Benefits & Perks

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans. 
  • 401K plan with an employer match.
  • Paid parental leave for all parents.
  • Unlimited paid vacation, flexible work hours, and 10 observed paid holidays per year.
  • Employer funded long-term disability.
  • Award-winning culture with regular team-wide events designed to foster connections and promote creativity.
  • Generous employee referral bonus program.
  • The opportunity to attend peer-nominated quarterly DEI events.
  • Working for a thriving, performance-based company that values promoting from within, career advancement, and transparency.
  • Work from our state of the art office in the heart of Chicago’s Loop featuring standing desks, nursing parent rooms, gender neutral bathrooms, subsidized gym access, and full amenity floor.
  • Commuter benefits & a fully stocked kitchen with rotating snacks and beverages.

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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Sales & Marketing
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Location

Centrally located in the Loop with convenient access to all public transportation. We are a quick walk to the State/Lake Stop (Brown, Green, and Orange Lines), Lake Street Red Line & Chicago's Ogilvie and Union Stations.

An Insider's view of Tegus

How do you collaborate with other teams in the company?

Collaboration is ingrained in how we innovate and ensure we are focused on solving the problems with the biggest impact for our product. Every team member at Tegus is invested in building a world-class product and leads with transparency and open communication to facilitate cross-functional collaboration.

Kelly Bishop

Director, Product

How has your career grown since starting at the company?

I'm going into my fourth year at Tegus and it's been nothing short of spectacular. The ability to work with and within different departments has been instrumental to my career growth. I've had the opportunity to work both as an individual contributor and also be a leader within my team.

Thabo Mochebelele

Senior Business Development Representative

What unique initiatives do you have that encourage innovation?

At Tegus, we believe innovation is a function of culture, action-orientation, and intense customer focus. Sure there can be some great tactics and initiatives you can implement to promote innovation - hackathons, being receptive to feedback, allowing our teams to explore outside their core day-to-day - but in our mind innovation stems from culture.

Tom Elnick

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

What's the biggest problem your team is solving?

The most significant problem we're solving is the seamless integration of growth with knowledge. It's about ensuring that as Tegus expands, every team member is empowered with the right information at the right time, in the right way. This is the essence of enablement, & I'm deeply invested in turning this vision into our shared reality.

Emmanual (Manny) Foster

Senior Manager, Sales Enablement

What are Tegus Perks + Benefits

Tegus Benefits Overview

Benefits & Perks:
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k) plan with an employer match.
- Paid parental leave for all parents.
- Unlimited paid vacation, flexible work hours, and 10 observed paid holidays per year.
- Employer funded long-term disability.
- Fantastic culture with regular virtual company-wide events, including cooking classes, yoga, meditation and more.
- Generous employee referral bonus program.
- The opportunity to attend peer-nominated quarterly DEI events.
- Working for a thriving, performance-based company that values promoting from within, career advancement and transparency.
- Work from our state of the art office in the heart of Chicago’s Loop featuring standing desks, nursing parent rooms, gender neutral bathrooms, subsidized gym access, and full amenity floor.
- Commuter benefits & a fully stocked kitchen with rotating snacks and beverages.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
We facilitate and match donations to select non-profits. Additionally, we collaborate with partners to support our DEI efforts
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Pair programming
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Employee-led culture committees
Hybrid work model
Employee awards
Flexible work schedule
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Highly diverse management team
The leadership team is 40% female and 20% people of color.
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
We have identified four goals (through a committee that represented 25% of the company at the time) around diversity, equity and inclusion with measurable outcomes that we will report on annually.
Health Insurance + Wellness
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Team workouts
Our in-office yoga has turned into virtual yoga and meditation classes during quarantine.
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Company equity
Performance bonus
Quarterly bonuses are available for most roles for exceptional performance.
Child Care & Parental Leave
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Company sponsored family events
Vacation + Time Off
Unlimited vacation policy
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Employees receive 10 days per year of paid sick leave.
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Company-sponsored happy hours
Recreational clubs
Mother's room
Onsite gym
Professional Development
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Customized development tracks

Additional Perks + Benefits

Perks are often employee-driven. We value feedback and do our best to ensure we are creating the best environment to have our employees thrive.

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