Remote Director of Design - Lead Creative Strategy at Wattpad

About the Role

Wattpad is seeking a Remote Director of Design to lead our design organization and shape the future of storytelling. This role is pivotal in setting a clear design vision and strategy across our products, ensuring that our design efforts resonate with our audience. As a Remote Director of Design, you will coach and develop a talented team of designers and researchers, blending strategic direction with hands-on involvement in our most critical design initiatives.

What You'll Do

• Lead and grow the design organization, mentoring a team of product designers and user researchers.
• Establish a culture of strong design thinking, craft excellence, and accountability to outcomes.
• Define and evolve a clear design vision aligned with product strategy and user needs.
• Shape cohesive, intuitive experiences across our reader, writer, and ads ecosystems.
• Actively contribute to high-impact initiatives and critical product moments.
• Partner closely with product and engineering leaders during discovery, definition, and delivery.
• Champion user-centered practices by ensuring user goals are prioritized.
• Collaborate with various teams to align on experience outcomes and tradeoffs.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading and scaling design teams in a product-driven organization.
• Strong design point of view with the ability to set direction and make hard tradeoffs.
• Deep experience shaping end-to-end product experiences across multiple surfaces.
• Ability to move fluidly between strategy and hands-on execution.
• Track record of influencing product direction through design narrative and user insight.

Nice to Have

• Experience with design systems and ensuring consistency across products.
• Familiarity with user research methodologies and data-driven design.
• Background in storytelling or media-related industries.

What We Offer

• Career development opportunities and mentorship.
• Top industry health benefits, including vision and dental.
• Your own health/wellness account to spend each year.
• Generous vacation and parental leave top-up program.
• Work from almost anywhere in the world for part of the year.
• Winter break shutdown and a vibrant workplace culture.

Join us as a Remote Director of Design and help shape the future of storytelling at Wattpad. Apply now!