What are the responsibilities and job description for the Head of Product Design position at Griffin Fire?
We're putting together a talented team to build the #1 training platform for Runners.
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We help everyday runners become outstanding by providing world-class training, coaching, and community for everyone, whether you're improving your 5k time or training for your first marathon. To date, we have built iOS, Android, and Apple Watch apps that help people achieve their goals by coaching them through the full journey and syncing to their favorite fitness devices.
We’re growing extremely fast and in November 2023 closed a new $6.5M funding round led by JamJar with participation from Eka Ventures, Venrex, and Creator Ventures. In 2024, we were selected by Apple as one of three global finalists for the 2024 iPhone App of the Year, reflecting the innovation and impact of what we’ve built. We want to grow as fast as we can into the future and are looking for individuals who will help us get there.
We’re now looking ahead to the future and the people who want to help us build and scale Runna. Our aim is to reach millions of subscribers in the next 5 years and be the go-to training platform for any runner. Now is a magical time to join; we're still small, and everyone makes a foundational difference.
Who we’re looking for
We are looking for a talented, creative, and positive team player to join our highly-skilled Product Design Team to help design new features for our iOS, Android, and Apple Watch applications and third-party integrations (Garmin, Strava, Coros, Suunto, etc.). You will work closely with our founders, designers, engineers, PM, and most importantly customers, to help shape the future of Runna.
As a Head of Design, your role will be to own the full end-to-end product design lifecycle at Runna from research and discovery to design and development :
- Lead, mentor, and line manage all of the design team at Runna.
- Work with the whole design and product team as well as our amazing customers to discover and prioritize user needs across their journey.
- Lead user research, testing, UI, and UX strategy along with our product design team, ensuring consistent and high-quality work.
- Own design team culture, making it positive, inclusive, accountable, and fun!
- Be the voice for design within the company, advocating at all levels.
- Lead design processes, meetings, calls, ways of working, and more.
- Lead all hiring as we significantly grow our design team in 2025.
- Work collaboratively with engineers, product managers, and everyone across the wider company to make quick decisions in a collaborative environment.
- Own the design roadmaps and backlogs and collaborate with Product on Product Roadmaps.
You will be reporting directly to Dom (Co-Founder and CEO).
What experience we’re looking for
If you don’t quite meet all of the below skills, we’d still love to hear from you as we might be able to tweak the role slightly or offer you a position better suited for you. We’re also open to more senior and more junior candidates for this role.
Bonus points if you :
Interview process
Our aim is to keep the interview process as straightforward and enjoyable as possible. However, for senior roles such as this, the process is extended such that you can really get a feel for the team and company before accepting an offer. The interview process will consist of the following stages :
Once the process is finished, we promise to let you know our decision as soon as possible.
We offer a salary of £130k - £150k in London (with US salary dependent on location), depending on experience, plus equity in the form of Runna stock options.
We'll be growing our package of benefits over time. We currently offer :
Note : we’re open to exploring a 3-month contract initially to see if it’s a good fit for both parties.
Still have questions? Check out our Careers Page and FAQ.
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Salary : $130,000 - $150,000
