Product Design Team Lead- Editor
About The Position
Product design is at the core of making Elementor users succeed by providing them with the ultimate experience. Elementor is the leading website platform for WordPress, and its award-winning editor gives web creators the freedom to turn their ideas into reality.
As Product Design Team Lead for the Editor, you’ll lead a team of talented designers and take full ownership of design delivery, team growth, and design quality within one of Elementor’s most strategic areas. This is a leadership role with direct management responsibility, where you’ll shape the team’s impact, set the bar for design excellence, and ensure we deliver cohesive, high-quality experiences across the Editor.
You’ll work closely with product, engineering, marketing, and content design to set direction, drive execution, and continuously improve how we design, collaborate, and ship. While you may contribute hands-on from time to time, your primary focus will be on mentoring your team, leading cross-functional alignment, and scaling the craft and influence of product design.
Work Environment
What do we do?
Elementor is the leading website building platform for WordPress professionals.
Our vision is to empower web creators - developers, designers, and marketers, with the ability to create their futures one pixel at a time. We provide our users with everything they need to become successful web creators.
A new website is created every 10 seconds using Elementor!
Since we launched in Israel in 2016, we have expanded to more than 160 countries, with more than 18M websites powered by Elementor. More than 12% of all websites around the world are built using Elementor!
How do we do it?
At Elementor, we're building the future of web creation.
We believe in empowering both our employees and our users.
Elementor is a place where you can truly grow professionally and personally.
Creativity, friendship, curiosity, motivation, and professionalism are the driving force behind our journey. We take great pride in Elementor's constant scaling
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of product designers working on the core Editor experience
- Set design direction and uphold high standards of design quality, usability, and user impact
- Provide strategic input on product and design decisions, ensuring alignment across teams and stakeholders
- Guide designers through all stages of the design process, from discovery to final implementation
- Promote team growth through clear feedback, career development, and hiring
- Foster a collaborative, creative, and inclusive design culture
- Align with product managers, engineers, marketers, and content designers to deliver cohesive, human-centered experiences
- Contribute to shaping and evolving design team practices, tools, and rituals
Requirements
- 7+ years of product design experience, including 2+ years managing or leading other designers
- Proven ability to lead and grow high-performing design teams
- Deep experience delivering end-to-end product workflows across complex user scenarios
- Excellent communication, feedback, and stakeholder management skills
- Strong visual and interaction design skills, with attention to detail and craft
- A collaborative leader who thrives in fast-paced environments and knows how to get things done
- High level of written and spoken English
Nice to have:
- Experience designing web editors or creative tools
- Familiarity with design systems and building reusable components in Figma
- Knowledge of Elementor and/or WordPress
- Background in Visual Communication or Interactive Design
Podcast
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