Head - User Experience Design - Website & Mobile App

Role Requirements : 

- This is a position where you will work closely with the product managers and engineers to build an experience roadmap.

- Product charter is to achieve a very high level of automation in all activities involving:

- Work with the Product managers to understand and participate in the roadmap from an end user experience perspective

- On ground research to understand user needs and documentation of user experience through user flows, scenarios, storyboards, mock-ups, and/or prototypes

- Design best-in-class information architecture & interactions that provide great experience and efficiency for users

- Hold interaction sessions with internal users seeking feedback and insights on the envisioned experience to inform product decisions

- Collaborate with engineering team to oversee and support design execution

- Champion User Experience Design philosophy within entire org

- Good understanding of user experience standards and methodologies

- Good knowledge/skills in data visualization and interaction design

- Website & Mobile app design

- Should have an eye for clean and minimal design

- Responsible for crafting and executing a holistic a strategy for visual communication

- Lead a team of talented designers during day to day operations, actively scoping work and prioritizing tasks based on business needs

- Collaborate cross-functionally with both merchandising and product design

- Represent the creatives team to all shareholders and own overall quality

- Establish communication across the creative team including best practices for meetings, facilitating progress, sharing updates and connecting with other teams

- Guide the team to develop best practices for ensuring a high bar of quality

- Provide mentor ship to copy writers and visual designers

You have :

- 10+ years- experience in product design, creative direction and art production

- A strong communication vision and style based on a deep understanding of customers

- Demonstrated ability to turn business goals into measurably engaging designs

- A high bar for quality based on a ruthless need for perfection in copy, typography, color balance, and composition

- Understanding of the marketing complexities of working across diverse product categories

- Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and vision

- Relevant experience in creative direction, digital art production, advertising, merchandising, or marketing

- A strong network in the creative community and the ability to attract and retain the best designers

Leadership Skills :

The desired competencies for the Head Design role described below:

- Ability to Synthesize & Manage Complexity: The successful candidate will be agile in a fast- moving environment where responsibilities often outweigh resources. S/he will be facile in problem-solving. The ideal candidate will demonstrate broad mental agility as evidenced by a past history of keeping/setting pace intellectually and operationally with a high- performance top management team.

- Strategic Business Perspective: The successful candidate must be able to understand and engage on strategic business needs and their implications for strategic planning. A rigorous, fact-based and innovative approach will be prized.

- Collaboration, Influencing and Communication Skills: The candidate must exhibit the judgment, insight and communication skills to advise staff on complex organization matters. S/he will build a function that is well integrated into the business as a strategic enabling function. S/he will partner to effectively communicate important messages to the critical stakeholders

- Team Leadership: This leader excels at people management and actively values the development of his/her people. The candidate has extremely high EQ and will serve as a talent magnet to the business and excel at coaching the team. S/he will envision the future and energize others in the pursuit of organizational development.