What you'll do:● Be a lead experience designer with hands on design skills and deep understanding of design process and methods.● Lead cross-functional teams on big design projects and products.● Work closely with business, tech, and customer folks to get things done.● Handle complex stuff, communicate clearly, and guide multiple teams.● Drive the design process and deliver awesome design solutions that meet business goals.● Create and showcase concepts that prove value to both the business and customers.● Own the product experience, champion design, talk to stakeholders, run design reviews, and spark innovation.Your day-to-day responsibilities:● Come up with lots of good design ideas.● Help brainstorm and work together on concepts.● Check the quality of solutions and how well they fit.● Give clear directions to your team.● Scope out competitor products, industry trends, and other relevant topics.● Stay in the loop about business, strategy, and how it's organized.● Understand what makes partners and stakeholders tick.● Guide design solutions within business and revenue model.● Think about how proposed solutions will impact the organization.● Create product experiences that match program vision and goals.● Spot the right design problems and opportunities in a brief.● Solve problems through design work and hands-on effort, while teaming up with leaders.● Make sure your and your team's work is super detailed.● Look for user insights and work with research teams to gather them (formal/informal, primary/secondary).● Explain solutions to stakeholders using business language.● Be a confidence booster and motivator for your team.● Present design solutions and their reasoning persuasively to business partners and key stakeholders.● Mentor new team members and interns on design craft and process.● Stand up for your team and suggest ways to align design work with design goals.● Find chances to share your expertise with the broader design community.Bonus points if you have:● A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Design.● Portfolio is all professional work.● Experience leading design for multiple programs or products that shipped to a huge user base.● Experience designing for different platforms, audiences, and areas.● Proof that you helped make products successful.● The ability to understand broader business, technical, and customer success factors and work with colleagues in those areas.● Experience mentoring other designers.Tools you'll use:● Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud tools, Sketch● Other creative toolsSkills you'll need:● Core Design: User experience design (UX), interaction design, user interface design, information architecture and visualization, motion design, visual design, etc.● Soft Skills: Good articulation of thoughts and communication, good at negotiating and influencing, and creative at storytelling.
