Global Senior Product UX Design Lead
THE OPPORTUNITY
We are looking for a Global Senior Product UX Design Lead for our client a global sports dynasty brand to lead innovation and build new direct to consumer products. In this innovative and exciting role, you will be responsible for managing the UX design across new and existing products, monitoring trends for business opportunities, creating user experience designs and strategies, and researching and developing applications. This role reports to the Global Chief Digital Officer.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
Prioritizes UX design work to align with corporate goals and business objectives, plans innovative changes to both the visual design and information architecture, and ensures a positive, collaborative, high-performance work environment.
Envisions and establishes creative direction for the entire line of online services, products, and programs.
Manages and coordinates the daily operations of the UX department (usability testing, writing, research, ideation, diagramming, and designs).
Oversees team members and vendors, monitoring external research, standards, inventions, trends, and design concepts for potential business opportunities and improvements to meet determined needs and business objectives.
Develops new processes, create user experience visual designs, strategies, guidelines, and standards. Plans innovative changes to UX design, information architecture, strategy, development processes, and organizational capabilities/structure.
Interacts with R&D, manufacturing, operations, and product managers to conduct user research, testing, and optimization of new and existing devices, and delivers analyses to senior executives.
Interacts virtually with team members in geographically diverse areas to establish strategic company plans and objectives.
Negotiates designs and deliverables with external suppliers, and partners with other design organizations to provide consistency between products.
Uses Agile, Scrum, or other methods, such as contextual inquiry, field research, or 1-on-1 usability testing sessions to research and develop applications.
Advances the overall quality of strategic thinking and design as applied to technology.
WHO YOU ARE
You possess a post-secondary degree in business or another related field, in addition to minimum 5 years of work experience in a similar digital capacity.
You keep current in your knowledge of industry trends.
You understand the latest digital experience frameworks (Google’s Material Design), have a basic understanding of the capabilities behind single page applications and web accelerators.
Your project management skills include the ability to positively influence others and thrive in a fluid environment while continuously working to establish, monitor and achieve goals.
You recognize that it takes the contribution of all individuals to achieve team success and you build respect and trust through your functional expertise with honest and open relationships.
You identify with our values of innovation, honoring the team, moving forward, playing fair and listening loudly.