Head Of User Experience

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