Director of UX & Research at Grafana Labs

What You’ll Be Doing

• Communicating and representing the UX team across the organization, including to senior leadership.
• Building trust and strong relationships with cross-functional leaders and teams to effectively support the team.
• Coaching and leading a team of 30+ UX designers and researchers, including 4 managers. Making sure career development and growth opportunities are available to managers and ICs.
• Recruiting top design talent, with profiles that match the team, product and market context.
• Building a team culture with focus on cross-functional collaboration, business outcomes and talent development & management.
• Being the champion of team achievements, with a bottoms-up focus.
• Furthering UX maturity with a pragmatic bottoms-up approach, where speed of innovation is a core R&D value.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience communicating UX topics to colleagues at all seniority and UX experience levels to effectively convey the intended message.
• Experience as a UX leader in a fast paced, high growth, engineering-led environment.
• Experience coaching and developing UX managers.
• Experience driving cross-functional initiatives that involve various teams and leaders to accomplish strategic goals.
• Experience leading a team through change.
• Comfort and experience working autonomously and asynchronously in a distributed remote team.