Head of Design Apify Prague, Praha

Head of Design Apify

Apify is a web scraping and browser automation platform. Thousands of developers from the whole world build and run web scrapers using our cloud. Many developers later publish and sell their web scrapers on Apify Store. Solopreneurs, startups and Fortune 500 companies all use Apify to extract data from billions of web pages and automate millions of manual tasks every month.
We serve more than 2,000 customers globally who contact our support team with questions about our platform, tools, API,SDKs, and even our open-source library, Crawlee. Whatever the question, we strive to help them as quickly and helpfully as possible.
We’re searching for a Head of Design responsible for a team of designers and the execution of large design projects from start to finish. As our Head of Design, you’ll ensure design directions and set high standards for the rest of the design team. You and your team will collaborate with Apify team leaders and other cross-functional roles to shape design strategy, prototypes, and the future of Apify products. Your end goal is to ensure that Apify designs are beautiful but also functional and user-friendly.
**Your Responsibilities**:
- Provide creative and strategic leadership for the design team
- Mentor and supervise product designers and introduce innovative methods of creative execution
- Lead both internal and external designers
- Drive a holistic UX and visual design strategy across multiple websites and Apify Console
- Develop an overall design vision and implementation roadmap
- Advocate for user-centered design and best practices within product development
- Identify opportunities in the design team; consequently, train, hire, and grow design talents
- Guide brand and marketing designers
- Use innovative new approaches to graphic design problems and create frameworks or optimizations
- Communicate with vendors to ensure that their designs are feasible and on schedule
- Incorporate data and customer insights in order to create conceptual wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs
- Review design concepts and mockups provided by designers to determine if they meet the requirements for the project
- Manage budgets of your department and critical design projects
**Requirements**:
- Extensive experience in all phases of the design process, including user research, wireframing, prototyping, visual design, interaction design, and usability testing
- Bringing novel, simple, and intuitive design to Apify Console in which user experiences and interfaces are complex and inscrutable to the everyday person
- Desire to mentor and lead other designers
- Ability to collect and interpret both qualitative and quantitative feedback
- Ability to effectively communicate and persuade other Apifiers about design concepts
- Ability to build design systems
- Knowledge of associated practices, including UX writing, User Research, and accessibility standards
- Customer-centric approach to design
- Proven experience working with Figma
- Fluent or conversational English
**Why should you work for Apify?**
- Space, support, and autonomy for personal growth, with a direct impact on our success
- Full-time job in Prague with the option to work remotely, or from our amazing office located in the ❤ of Prague, Czech Republic Flexible working hours (perfect for both night owls and early birds
- ) Nobody counts holidays as long as the work gets done
- Stock options Pet-, kid-, and bike-friendly office ‍ Epic team buildings and offsites (biking, canoeing, and other regular pastimes ) Solid education and training budget, conference tickets, internal “Eat & Learn” sessions, and the possibility to work across teams ‍‍ Generous hardware budget Free lunches every day Unlimited supply of and
- Ping-pong, chess, PS5, lightsabers, foosball league after lunch and a free Multisport card
**Hiring process**
Intro call Home assignment ‍ Interview ✍ Meeting with the team Offer

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