Lead Product Designer

| Santa Monica
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The Black Tux is reinventing the formalwear rental industry so guys can show up at their best on the days that matter most. The company designs and manufactures modern rental suits and tuxedos that actually fit—made of 100% wool, ordered online, and delivered for free. Using a combination of machine learning, tailor-trained fit specialists, and industry-leading customer service, The Black Tux guarantees a perfect fit every time.

As the Lead Product Designer, you will lead a small team of talented product designers to produce intuitive and effective designs while providing support and streamlining product design process and quality. You will be empowered to make a lasting impact on the experience and design direction of The Black Tux.

The perfect candidate will be an experienced, user-centered designer with a proven track-record of working with and elevating the designers around them.

What You'll Do

  • Leverage design expertise to create beautiful, intuitive experiences for The Black Tux user.
  • Lead, mentor, challenge and grow a team of product designers. Contribute to fostering a collaborative team spirit.
  • Drive a user-centered design practice to design innovative, on-brand solutions that meet measurable customer needs, business requirements and goals.
  • Strike the right balance between holistic experience design and detail-oriented execution and evangelize this approach.
  • Know technology and emergent design patterns and coach to designing for changing consumer behaviors and preferences.
  • Develop, facilitate and lead best practices for maintaining consistency and coherence across product designs.
  • Work with product management, engineering, brand and other departments to reach the best design solutions and and disseminate design vision across the organization.
  • Help to set clear, realistic, action-oriented goals with each product designer and provide coaching and insight to achieve those goals.

Who You Are

  • Talented and experienced product designer with track record of mentoring and coaching up and coming product designers.
  • Obsess about the user, what motivates them, and how our product can surpass their expectations.
  • A variety and depth of experience designing complex user journeys.
  • Successfully leveraged user research, usability testing and data insights to build strategy and improve experiences.
  • Ability to collaborate with and coach designers to achieve their best results.
  • Strong conceptual thinking and compositional sense.
  • Expert communicator. You model giving and receiving feedback.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.

Benefits and perks of working at The Black Tux

  • Exciting startup environment
  • Weekly catered lunches
  • Dog-friendly office
  • Complimentary dry cleaning & tailoring services
  • Health, dental and vision coverage
  • 401(k)
  • Paid parking
  • Parental leave (non-birthing parents included)
  • Open vacation time
  • Stocked kitchen & pantry
  • Apple equipment or whatever you need to be productive
  • Monthly team outings
  • Free suit and tuxedo rentals

  • We're an equal opportunity employer to all. We interview and hire applicants of all backgrounds, orientations, expressions, and identities

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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Product
  • Sales & Marketing
  • People Operations
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    • RLanguages
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    • OptimizelyAnalytics
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    • FigmaDesign
    • Google DocsManagement
    • JIRAManagement
    • WordpressCMS
    • IterableLead Gen
    • Google HangoutsCollaboration
    • SlackCollaboration
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Location

We're located in Gardena, CA with many other surrounding warehouses. Our team plasy pickle-ball every Tuesday, lunch at Eatalian or Chicken Maison, and happy hour at Common Space, Monkish, or Smog City Brewery.

What are The Black Tux Perks + Benefits

The Black Tux Benefits Overview

Each benefit we offer is in the best interest of The Black Tux and our team members. We are thoughtful and strategic about every event, perk, class, and benefit we offer, and we only roll-out meaningful perks that are in line with our company culture and values.

Culture
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Quarterly engagement surveys
Hybrid work model
In-person all-hands meetings
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Highly diverse management team
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Diversity recruitment program
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
The Black Tux's Flexible Spending Account (FSA) helps employees cover out-of-pocket medical expenses with pre-tax contributions up to $2,850.
Disability insurance
We offer comprehensive insurance plans for employees and their dependents. This includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and short-term disability coverage.
Dental insurance
The Black Tux covers 100% of the employee monthly premium cost for health and dental HMO plans and 50% for dependents.
Vision insurance
The Black Tux offers comprehensive insurance plans for employees and their dependents. This includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and short-term disability coverage.
Health insurance
The Black Tux covers 100% of the employee monthly premium cost for health and dental HMO plans and 50% for dependents.
Life insurance
The Black Tux uses Guardian life insurance and provides $50,000 in employee coverage. Employees can opt-in to premium coverage up to $500,000.
Wellness programs
Team workouts
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Company equity
Employee stock purchase plan
Performance bonus
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Restricted work hours
Company sponsored family events
Fertility benefits
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Flexible time off
Bereavement leave benefits
Company-wide vacation
The Black Tux closes from December 24th - January 1st for a well deserved transition into a new year. Some warehouse roles will work during this time, but office roles will be logged off.
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Onsite office parking
Pet friendly
Relocation assistance
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available

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