Hybrid Vice President, Design

at Weedmaps

• Job title: Vice President, Design
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $250,156 - $286,512 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Austin, United States

About the role

• Design executive at Weedmaps shaping the future of a mobile marketplace app for cannabis. Leading team of designers and collaborating across departments to drive product excellence.

Responsibilities

• Ensure best in class experiences across all of our products and features and ensure teams are delivering high-quality product design work.
• Strengthen our mobile-first focus with motion design, micro-interactions, and native mobile gestures / affordances elevating the polish and intuitiveness of our consumer app.
• Define UX vision and strategy, generating buy-in and operationalizing the strategy across multiple teams and timelines.
• Be an expert in understanding the interconnectedness of the Weedmaps product suite and how all the parts fit together. Restructure foundational patterns across mobile app, mobile web and desktop.
• Use technical fluency, especially in mobile development constraints, while partnering closely with engineering and product to make pragmatic design decisions and help the org ship high quality work faster.
• Raise the bar for product quality across our products by advocating for user-centered product roadmaps, investments in last-mile refinement and polish, and insights driven by user research. Define clear design principles, quality standards, and review rituals.
• Iteratively improve products based on quantitative and qualitative feedback.
• Clearly communicate design decisions to stakeholders across departments.
• Execute on today, with an eye on the future.
• Balance quantitative and qualitative inputs.
• Develop and execute an AI design program to ensure designers are prototyping in the latest AI code tools.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years experience working in product design and have shipped several products and features.
• Minimum of 5+ years experience managing a design team.
• A portfolio of meaningful product design work (from UX design to visual design) that showcases ability to ship successful products.
• Experience developing product roadmaps for a cross-platform design, where mobile is primary.
• Proven ability to translate qualitative and quantitative insights into a clear direction that guides the team in creating the right experience.
• Proven track record devising product vision and strategy and designing high-quality products in collaboration with product management and engineering partners.
• You have the ability to manage, mentor & elevate a team of product designers and help them navigate ambiguity to find clarity.
• Experience working with e-commerce and consumer centric apps.
• History of growing a team across hiring and people development.

Benefits

• Physical Health (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• 401(k) Retirement Plan (employer will match contribution up to 3.5% of employee contribution)
• Basic Life & AD&D - employer paid 1x salary up to $250,000
• Supplemental, voluntary benefits
• PTO, paid sick leave, and company holidays (including a 2026 holiday shutdown)
• Paid parental leave