Head - User Experience (22-27 yrs)

Responsibilities:

- Create and present design solutions and strategies that bring the user story to life for a wide audience.

- Sets criteria across the project to prioritize and scope objectives in order to meet quality expectations.

- Ensure the layout, composition, and information architecture for products and product features to ensure that underlying functionality is exposed in a clear and consistent manner.

- Collaborate with PM, Dev, and Quality Leads across-teams to deliver high quality products.

- Integrate and provide feedback to other design disciplines on the team.

- Deliver interactions and flows that embrace or extend existing Dynamics design patterns.

- Guide junior designers in the team to take impactful full decisions.

- Identify and articulate new design patterns suitable across multiple products.

- Document design decisions for consumption by the broader design studio team, as well as key partner teams.

- Work closely and iteratively with developers to ensure design accuracy and consistency.

- Highlight unaddressed issues within his or her team and resolves, escalates, or finds the appropriate owner to ensure the highest level of quality.

- Oversee timelines and deliverables, guide production, and communicate evolving project goals.

- Attract, retain, and develop top talent to build a diverse team.

- Inspire, lead by doing and manage designers to ensure exceptional design deliverables.

- Provide guidance, oversight, and mentorship to the team and create and inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work and grow.

Qualifications:

- Passion for invention, human computer interaction, and seamless user experiences.

- Confident presenting and promoting design solutions.

- Customer research driven.

- A history of designing delightful interactive experiences built on new or emerging technology.

- Experience working on a multi-disciplinary team of designers, PMs and developers.

- Self-motivated and comfortable with the ambiguities.

- Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively.

- 22+ years as a professional Visual Designer, Interaction Designer or equivalent experience.

- 10+ years of lead and/or management-related experience required.

- Knowledge of user-centered design approaches and interaction design best practices.

- Strong brainstorming skills, from participation to leadership.

- The ability to reduce complex concepts to understand, actionable tasks.

- A strong interest in design and technology and trends, with an eye toward the future.

- Effective storytelling skills to generate empathy and craft a vision for the futurE.

- Excellent eyes towards details and great visual skills.