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Senior Director, Design Operations & Strategy (Mailchimp)
Location(s): Atlanta, Georgia; Brooklyn, New YorkCompany Overview
Intuit is a global technology platform that helps consumers and small businesses overcome their most important financial challenges. Serving more than 100 million customers worldwide, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.
Job Overview
At Intuit, our mission is powering prosperity around the world. We build intuitive web, mobile, and cloud solutions that generate more money, more time, and more confidence for 46+ million people. Leveraging big data insights, machine learning, and powerful automation, we help consumers, small business owners, and the self-employed achieve their dreams of prosperity.
Mailchimp is a leading marketing platform for small businesses. We empower millions of customers around the world to build their brands and grow their companies with a suite of marketing automation, multi-channel campaigns, CRM, and analytics tools.
The Mailchimp Design team is a multi-disciplinary team of designers and researchers working cross-functionally to deliver a unified experience for our customers and bring the Mailchimp essence to life. Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. Our designers care deeply about the people using our products. We focus on distilling complex problems into thoughtful, beautiful, holistic experiences. We’re looking for those who naturally do their best work when collaborating with engineering, product, research, data, and marketing.
We are looking for an innovative leader with a proven track record of delivery to join our team who is passionate about solving tough small business problems. At Intuit, we put our employees first, and this role requires a servant-leader who can coach, grow, and inspire team members to do the best work of their lives delivering amazing end-to-end customer-driven innovation & experiences.
Qualifications
- 15+ years of UX experience and leadership working delivering globally recognized products, services, or brands
- 5+ years directly managing multidisciplinary teams
- MBA or Degree in Design, HCI, Human Factors, or a related field/equivalent preferred but open to candidates with various backgrounds
- Experience managing teams in a complex product ecosystem with many sets of stakeholders
- T-shaped design leader well-versed in operations, technology, and research
- Deep understanding of product-building functions such as data, design,and product management
- Effective influence and communication skills that move a large matrixed organization with multiple stakeholders
- Along with your resume, we’d love to see work samples - especially examples of leading teams with significant business outcomes!
Responsibilities
- Lead a portfolio of strategic design capabilities that both drive outcomes for the business and inform the strategy for design
- Define and operationalize design’s strategic programs that optimize and streamline the design organization’s output, quality, and readiness for skills of the future
- Enact organization-wide change management whilst preserving the culture and quirky character of Mailchimp Design
- Boundaryless leadership with cross-functional partners to actively break down silos and create ways of working that are by default inclusive and nimble
- Coach and grow multidisciplinary teams who work on running the business but also inform the organization of what is next
- Balance process and rigor but understand how to make an impact in a fast-paced agile environment
- Provoke the organization with what is possible and clearly show how we might get there
How you will lead
- Exemplify Intuit’s values and apply them to how you operate day-to-day as a leader
- Bring a positive, solution-centric and growth mindset
- Build durable and strategic partnerships with stakeholders across the organization with an adaptive, empathetic, collaborative leadership mindset
- Grow your peeps by identifying and enhancing their strengths and inspiring them to do the best work of their lives
- Be gritty and create clarity for your teams in the face of ambiguity
- Lead by example and be biased towards action
- Be an expert in the product that we’re building for our customers
- Develop and refine equitable practices and cultivate a diverse and effective team
Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this position is NY $255,983 - $346,331. This position will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing pay equity for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

"When I encounter a technical problem, I feel driven to find a solution that is simple, human, and easy to understand."

"It’s important to always strive for improvement, even if you’re already in a good place."

"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."

"One of the things that stands about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."

"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."

"I really felt drawn to Intuit because it's a place where I feel like I can make super meaningful impact on customers’ lives and their day-to-day. Finances are tricky and it’s emotional and stressful, and if I can help lift that burden off of someone, I feel like it’s worth it."

"Working at Intuit is satisfying because our goal is not to get customers to spend as much time on our products. We want to make their financial lives easier whether it's filling out taxes or helping small businesses operate. It's a great combination of experimenting with new technology while also staying close to tangible problems for real people."

"Designing at Intuit feels special because we're not just making things to make things. We're tackling real, consequential financial problems voiced by small businesses, self-employed, and individuals around the world. I'm grateful to have such a worthy and motivating mission when I go to work – powering prosperity around the world."

"Working at Intuit is satisfying because our goal is not to get customers to spend as much time on our products. We want to make their financial lives easier whether it's filling out taxes or helping small businesses operate. It's a great combination of experimenting with new technology while also staying close to tangible problems for real people."

"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."

"One of the things that stands about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."

"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."

"I really felt drawn to Intuit because it's a place where I feel like I can make super meaningful impact on customers’ lives and their day-to-day. Finances are tricky and it’s emotional and stressful, and if I can help lift that burden off of someone, I feel like it’s worth it."

"One of the things that stands out about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."

"By feeding our customers' data through machine learning algorithms, we uncover valuable insights that empower millions of customers to feel more confident about their financial future."

"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."

"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."

"We use the latest Native frameworks for iOS and Android to deliver a truly delightful mobile-first experience for our customers. I love that we're enabling millions of customers to improve their financial health, all under a world-class mobile experience."

"Our goal at Intuit is to solve challenging financial problems for millions of people. It’s satisfying to design awesome solutions knowing that you’re helping people around the world achieve their dreams of prosperity."

"One of the things that stands out about Intuit is the impact that we have on our customers. Whether it's helping them yearly with their taxes or every day with their finances, it is truly satisfying to know that we’re using our resources and knowledge to power prosperity for millions of people around the world."

"It's a great feeling knowing that when you push out a new feature or fix, our customers notice it and really love the work that we do! Here at Intuit, not only do we have the freedom to work with the newest technologies, but we value solving challenging financial problems for our customers above everything else."

"One of my favorite aspects of this role is that my work is helping small business owners achieve their business goals by solving complex financial problems. It's gratifying to know that the work that I'm doing directly impacts consumers and makes their lives easier so that they can focus their energy on growing their business."

"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
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Conrad leverages tools like natural language processing and machine learning to help tax analysts and small business owners use TurboTax and QuickBooks more efficiently. For Conrad, Intuit is a great place to learn, grow, and take full ownership of your career path.
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