Product Design Manager - Consumer Products

Minimum Qualifications

• 7 years of experience designing UX solutions for software, web applications and/or mobile native apps

• 3 years of experience mentoring other design professionals

• Bachelor’s degree in user experience, interaction design, communication design, information architecture, psychology, human-computer interaction, human factors, other related field or equivalent work experience

• Demonstrated ability with recruiting, hiring and retaining multidisciplinary design teams

• Demonstrated ability leading designers, with a proven track record of building and managing strong, effective design teams

• Demonstrated ability in creating designs that create a competitive advantage and measure the effectiveness of designs with end users

• Demonstrated ability in working with a variety of design tools such as Adobe XD, Figma, Axure, InVision and Sketch

• Demonstrated ability to design digital products, services and experiences for effective and efficient human use

• Demonstrated ability in influencing product direction through a deep understanding of user needs and usability

• Demonstrated ability in collaborating with multiple disciplines, such as product, engineering and data analysis

• Advanced knowledge of the end-to-end iterative product design process, including how to use wireframing, prototyping, user testing and high-fidelity visuals to communicate design intent

• emonstrated ability in best practices, key findings and evidence-based rationalization of UX design decisions

• Knowledge of balancing human behaviors, technology capabilities and business needs to deliver measurable design solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s in user experience, interaction design, human-computer interaction, psychology, sociology, human-computer interaction, human factors or related field

Job Summary

The Product Design Manager leads a design team to deliver impactful outcomes through superior experiences for clients and internal team members. They provide day-to-day direction and guidance for their team’s growth and output by iterating through wireframes, prototypes and high-fidelity mockups, as well as partner with cross-functional leads and the leadership team to drive strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead a design team consisting of defining and measuring design strategies that deliver value to our clients, achieve business outcomes and accelerate growth

• Champion creating a differentiated and competitive client experience by using storytelling and persuasion to connect strategy and vision to business-as-usual work

• Drive quality and user-centric experiences and guide the team to develop best practices

• Develop an emerging understanding of customer problems, broader organizational context and goals and take initiative in identifying problems and opportunities to improve the product

• Develop and measure key performance indicators that benchmark and track performance, and measure our solutions

• Hire and retain top user experience design talent by driving career development and performance and delivering regular feedback and coaching

• Collaborate iteratively to deliver highly innovative solutions

• Oversee and guide the team to work through roadblocks and collaborate with other teams

Disclaimer

This is an outline of the primary responsibilities of this position. As with everything in life, things change. The tasks and responsibilities can be changed, added to, removed, amended, deleted and modified at any time by the leadership group.