Senior Director - Design - UX/UI Team - Payments Bank

This person will have a front row seat in driving the creative execution of the future product for the client, as well as building, growing and guiding a full UX/UI team.

This position reports directly to Chief Digital Officer.

Responsibilities

- Be an ambassador for UX who can evangelize the role design plays in the success of a product.

- Drive the strategic design vision, perspective, and execution of our full product suite end-to-end, spanning Consumer and Merchant facing products.

- Create and drive the UX vision with the executive team to align on how our design strategy impacts our customers & business goals

- Demonstrate thought leadership by contributing subject matter expertise in all areas of UX

- Implement efficient UX/UI processes that help the design team achieve their best possible work as they work with product managers and engineers

- Lead and grow a team of multidisciplinary UX and visual designers with mentorship, design guidance, and strategy.

Desired Candidate:

- An engaging and dynamic individual with a track record of leading a design team while also partnering effectively with the rest of the company

- Experience at a leading consumer or enterprise product company with a user-centered focus, preferably in a fast-paced startup environment that runs in an agile manner

- Experience in responsive web design

- Experience in both visual and interaction design

- Product design, not landing pages

- Expert knowledge of user-centered design principles

- Intuitive and highly functional flows

- A known leader in the design community, presenting at conferences

Qualifications:

- Minimum of 5 years of experience in management, mentorship, and cultural change

- 10+ years designing user experiences, and interaction design, for rich, interactive, consumer or enterprise, web applications

- Bachelor's Degree in HCI, Design, Communication, or related experience preferred