Director of UX & Design, Lokalise

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Expert level
Remote in EU, UK

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Lokalise

Localization platform for agile teams

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Lokalise

Localization platform for agile teams

201-500 employees

B2BEnterpriseLanguagesInternal toolsProductivityPublishingContentCommunicationSaaSAutomation

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

Plus stock options

Expert level
Remote in EU, UK

More information about location

201-500 employees

B2BEnterpriseLanguagesInternal toolsProductivityPublishingContentCommunicationSaaSAutomation

Company mission

To eliminate the hassle of localization by providing tools to automate, integrate, and better manage your translations.

Role

Who you are

  • A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Design, HCI, Psychology, or a related field, with a strong emphasis on UX and user-centered design
  • Extensive leadership experience in design and UX, particularly in a product-led growth company, with a deep understanding of how design impacts growth and user engagement
  • A proven track record of successful collaboration with growth teams and integrating UX design into growth strategies
  • Expertise in modern design tools and technologies, with a keen eye for aesthetic and functional design
  • Strong understanding of UX research methods and how to apply insights from psychology and HCI to design strategies
  • Excellent communication skills, capable of articulating design visions and strategies across different levels of the organization

Desirable

  • Experience working in the SaaS industry

What the job involves

  • As the Director of UX and Design at Lokalise, you will lead our design and user experience initiatives, championing a user-centered design philosophy that supports our product-led growth (PLG) strategy
  • Your primary mission will be to understand our users deeply, leveraging insights from UX, human-computer interaction, and the broader field of psychology to drive design decisions that increase ease of use, enhance user satisfaction, and fuel overall business growth
  • This is a full-time, remote role that requires a visionary leader with a passion for creating compelling, user-friendly designs and a proven track record in a PLG company environment
  • Lead Design Strategy: develop and execute a cohesive design and UX strategy that aligns with our product-led growth goals, emphasizing user engagement, satisfaction, and retention
  • Champion User-Centered Design: foster a culture that places user needs and experiences at the forefront of product development, leveraging UX/HCI principles and psychology to inform design decisions
  • Collaborate Across Teams: work closely with product, engineering, and growth teams to ensure that design and UX principles are integrated into all stages of product development and growth initiatives
  • Drive Innovation: identify and implement innovative design and UX practices that enhance user experience and contribute to product differentiation and competitiveness
  • Build and Mentor: lead, inspire, and mentor a team of UX/UI designers and UX researchers, establishing a collaborative, high-performing team environment focused on excellence and continuous improvement
  • Advocate for Users: serve as the primary advocate for the user experience, ensuring that user feedback and research are integral to the product design process

Otta's take

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Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

Localization can be a headache for companies shipping products to new markets, involving lengthy manual work and often highly general tools like Excel. Add to that the complexities of updating localization strategies to align with new agile software development methods, and it can prove a real hurdle for companies looking to expand their global footprint.

Lokalise allows for localization to be centralized and knitted more tightly into the development process, anticipating pernickety issues like formatting errors thrown up if translations require more space in the target language. This is a substantial development on translation-only services, but it’s becoming an industry standard also offered by competitors like RWS and Memsource.

What will help the relatively young Lokalise compete is a 2,500+ strong customer roster, which includes major enterprises like Revolut, Virgin Mobile, and Starbucks. It’s helped Lokalise cause a stir in the industry, and with global expansion on the rise across all major sectors, it should help the company continue its already impressive growth going forwards.

Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-23% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Employee endorsements

Flexible working

"Working remotely means we manage our energy - not our time and so I find space for everything that matters to me while giving it my all at work...."

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Feb 2023

$61.7m

LATE VC

Dec 2021

$50m

SERIES B

Total funding: $117.8m

Company benefits

  • Coworking allowance
  • Unlimited PTO and Work-life balance
  • Health insurance
  • Top-notch tech equipment to work with
  • Parental leave
  • Personal development budget
  • Stock options
  • Fun & close-knit team, on- and offline meetings (off-sites)
  • Wellness benefits
  • 100% remote async work
  • Positive Impact (carbon-neutral company)
  • Mental health support
  • Full-time remote work
  • Company events
  • Budget for home office set-up

Company values

  • Be direct and kind. Put yourself in others' shoes.
  • Support one another. Thrive together.
  • Build competence. Keep growing.
  • Take ownership. Optimize for impact.
  • Aim high. Stay down to earth.

Company HQ

Camden, DE

Founders

A serial co-founder and CEO, who has filled these roles at inbox.lv, Vide Infra Group, Double Coffee, Pozitel Telecom, and Roamerapp.

Has been on the boards of Forticom (where he was also CFO), OK.RU, and Open Media Group, and served as MD at KBC Securities Ukraine. Went on to co-found Megogo.net and Roamerapp, then work in business development at Apply.

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