RapidAPI is a team of creators building for developers. We are the world’s largest API Hub where over 3 million devs find, test, and connect to 35,000 APIs (and growing!) — all with a single account, single API key, and single SDK.

Our users range from independent developers to the largest companies in the world. We work hard to ensure it’s easy for developers to build, discover, and connect to APIs faster while providing enterprise-wide visibility and governance. As a result, entrepreneurs and enterprises can concentrate on creating value and business outcomes.

We operate at a significant scale, but the opportunity is even bigger. You have an unprecedented opportunity to make a massive difference and empower developers to build modern software through API innovation while doing the most critical work of your career.

Your Role

We are looking for a Product Design Leader in San Francisco. You will help grow our international design team, dealing with the day-to-day management of designers and the long-term impact of design.

As a Product Design Leader, you will lead and manage product designers to ensure our products and features are valuable for developers, easy to use, and of the highest level of craft and execution. In this role, you’ll be a foundational member of the leadership team, working together with your counterparts in engineering, product, and other disciplines to define the strategy, operations, and communications that guide the team to build great products addressing real user needs. You will be expected to utilize your entire range of people management skills, product strategy, product design, interaction design, and visual design skills.
You will

Build and manage a talented, diverse, inclusive team of product designers and leaders that consistently delivers on projects and is well-balanced across a range of design skillsets
Responsible for overall team performance and health, resource allocation, project prioritization, and building a culture of design excellence
Lead and oversee the user experience of a product from conception to launch in partnership with product managers, engineers, and other team members
Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into functional and valuable products for our users
Design end-to-end flows and experiences that are simple and elegant for our tools and services
Cultivate a healthy design process for the team, and be a key contributor to your organization’s product strategy
Proactively solicit and provide feedback from designers and a broader product team to continually raise our bar for quality while also taking on mentorship
Promote design methods and practices within the company

You have

3+ years of experience in managing a team of product (UX, UI) designers
Hired designers for your team
Created or participated in the creation of career paths in Design for your company
Experience in communicating and advocating design across departments on management level and above.

Join our team for an opportunity to play a vital role in a fast-growing, high-scale startup company distributed across the US, Europe, and Israel. You’ll be taking our product to the next level within a high talent density team and out-of-the-box thinking. Having raised $60 million in a Series C investment round in 2021, you’ll be working with a team that is scaling globally fast.

If this sounds like you, click apply below! We’d love to hear from you.