Principal Design Strategist
MURAL is a digital workspace for visual collaboration that connects over 50 percent of the Fortune 100. Teams at global enterprises including IBM, USAA, E-Trade, Intuit, SAP, Atlassian, Autodesk, and GitHub embrace visual collaboration to run more productive meetings and workshops. This leads to a more creative, engaging, and fun way of working together, all in a welcoming, simple-to-use online space.
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, MURAL employs over 300 people around the world. In 2020, MURAL raised $118M in a series B round of financing and are working hard to take MURAL to the next level.
YOUR MISSION
As a Design Strategist, you will work on complex, systemic problems related to new product innovation, product strategy, organizational culture, customer experience, and related areas. This is a senior-level IC role within the design team that will work with and across the organization in a strategic, collaborative capacity.
YOUR PROFILE
- You are a systems thinker, able to spot connections others might not see.
- You combine creative and analytical skills to deliver potent innovation strategies.
- You are experienced at designing, leading and facilitating large-group workshops.
- You are a curious, self-taught learner, who loves investigating new topics.
- Visual thinking is in your DNA.
- You thrive in uncertain and complex situations.
- You prefer to find and frame new project opportunities, rather than have projects scoped for you.
- You demonstrate a bias for action, turning ho-hum meetings into opportunities to create and collaborate together.
- You’re able quickly give form to ideas, whether that’s sketching a storyboard, prototyping in code, prototyping in Figma, or something in-between (while you will be working on a lot of strategic and conceptual projects, we’re looking for someone who is still very much a ‘hands-on’ practitioner).
- You stay current with the latest trends in design, emerging tech, and related topics.
- You are an excellent communicator with great instincts about how to synthesize and tell a powerful story, build a deep rapport, and give honest feedback.
- You bring out the best and ignite creative ideas in those around you.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
This is a very senior-level IC role within the design team that will work with and across the organization in a strategic, collaborative capacity. As such:
- You should have 13+ years’ experience applying design and communication to strategic problems, including experience in a creative or consulting firm working with corporate clients.
- It is expected that you have deep and broad expertise in most areas of design: Service design, user experience, user research, information architecture, sketching, prototyping, etc.
In addition to being part of our quest to help people empower their imagination, we offer:
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Ability to work remotely
- Flexible time off
- A phenomenal learning environment for you to develop
OUR VALUES
We bring people to our team that care about our mission to inspire and connect creative people globally, and who feel aligned with our values:
- Make others successful
- Adapt to thrive
- Play to wow
- Think global
- Experiment like an owner
Practicing equality through imagination work.
MURAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive workspaces where people can make a positive impact on the world and share their vision of how they achieve it. We are dedicated to working alongside multiple communities to help build this dream and bring it to life.