Veeam, the #1 global market leader in data resilience, believes businesses should control all their data whenever and wherever they need it. Veeam provides data resilience through data backup, data recovery, data portability, data security, and data intelligence. Based in Seattle, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we move forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands. The future of data resilience is here - go fearlessly forward with us.
We are looking for a dynamic design leader to spearhead a modern design transformation across multiple enterprise software products within Veeam. You will drive the design and user experience strategy, evolve a design system, and foster a customer-centric culture to modernize our product suite and improve usability. We need a strategic leader who can also be hands-on when necessary, executing rapid, iterative UX improvements in a fast-paced environment.
Your tasks will include:
- Lead Design Strategy: Define and drive the overall design vision and UX strategy across all products, aligning design objectives with business goals and customer needs.
- User-Centric Transformation: Champion a culture of design thinking, user research, and prototyping to ensure product decisions are guided by user insights.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, and other teams to incorporate design early in product development and create a shared vision.
- Team Leadership: Recruit, mentor, and manage a high-impact design and research team. Foster a collaborative, inclusive culture that empowers designers to innovate and grow.
- Design System Implementation: Drive the evolution of a modern, scalable design system for consistency, efficiency, and a cohesive user experience across the entire product portfolio.
- UX Quality & Innovation: Measure and evolve the user experience to ensure product usability and delight, identifying opportunities to streamline complex workflows and enhance visual design.
- Bias for Action: Inspire a rapid iteration mindset within the design team, producing prototypes and gathering feedback quickly to drive continuous improvement and impact on the broader company.
- Hands-On Execution: Step in as a “player-coach” when needed, contributing directly to key design initiatives while mentoring team members.
What we expect from you:
- 10+ years of experience in UX/Product Design, including 5+ years in a leadership role (Director level or above).
- Proven success leading the design of enterprise B2B software or SaaS products.
- Experience building and implementing a unified design system.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to influence executives and cross-functional teams.
- History of building and effectively managing a distributed or remote design team, effectively coordinating across geographies and time zones.
- Expertise with modern design and prototyping tools, preferably Figma.
Will be an advantage
- Familiarity with cybersecurity, data protection, or related enterprise IT domains.
- Experience in turnaround or high-growth environments, with an ability to champion organizational change.
- Familiarity with data-driven design approaches, using analytics and metrics to guide design decisions.
- Unlimited PTO
- 3 global VeeaMe Days per year: company-wide closures for employees to take a break, disconnect, and focus on self-care
Paid Holidays - Veeam Care Days: 24 hours paid time for volunteering
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on day one (multiple plan options)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options
- Employer HSA contributions (for HDHP participants)
- Life and AD&D insurance (employee, spouse/partner, and child options)
- Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Supplemental individual disability insurance (IDI)
- Family planning support: fertility, adoption, surrogacy, and parental resources
- Paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Additional voluntary benefits: accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, legal, identity theft protection, commuter benefits, pet care
- Mental health support
- 401(k) plan
- Professional training and education, on-demand learning libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops, and Global Day of Learning
The salary range posted is On Target Earnings (OTE), which is inclusive of base and variable pay. When making an offer of employment, Veeam will take into consideration the candidate’s expectations, experience, education, scope of responsibility for the role, and the current market demands.
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