Southern Glazers Wine & Spirits

Director Digital Product Design

Southern Glazers Wine & Spirits$120K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of digital product design experience, including mobile app and web design
  • 4+ years of design management experience
  • Proven experience in agile design environments
  • Expertise in developing and implementing global design systems
  • Familiarity with the full digital product lifecycle and collaboration with development teams
  • Functional knowledge of design tools (e.g., Figma, Protopie) and methodologies (e.g., design research, accessibility compliance)

Responsibilities

  • Develop design strategies through ideation and problem-framing sessions
  • Manage a team of digital designers, providing constructive feedback
  • Lead design reviews with executives to present and rationalize design decisions
  • Assess design quality through thorough review and collaboration
  • Partner with product management to align design efforts with business objectives
  • Collaborate with software development teams to bring concepts to market

Benefits

  • Support for cultural and diversity initiatives
  • Opportunities for mentorship and professional growth
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Involvement in local design community events
Full Job Description
Overview

The Director Digital Product Design will work with one or more product portfolios and report to the VP, Digital Product Design. Within a portfolio, the director has the responsibility to develop design strategies, manage a digital design team, assess design qualify and performance, and lead in the development and presentation of design ideas.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Develop design strategies:

    • Lead problem-framing & ideation sessions
    • Lead design thinking workshops
    • Create design hypotheses, explore & test
    • Contribute point-of-view into service blueprints
    • Lead rapid prototyping efforts for exploratory interactions

  • Manage a digital design team:

    • Effectively lead a team of digital designers, giving clear and actionable feedback to team members
    • Provide motivation and recognition for job performance
    • Hire and mentor 'full stack' digital product designers
    • Ally and support culture and diversity initiatives within the team, and at the company

  • Present design ideas:

    • Lead design reviews with executive-level colleagues
    • Provide solid rationale for design decisions
    • Make compelling and persuasive presentation of ideas, concepts, and in-progress design work


Additional Primary Responsibilities

  • Assess design quality and performance:

    • Review design work created by direct reports, agencies, and collaborators
    • Perform generative and evaluative design research
    • Collaborate with design researchers to continuously learn & iterate design work

  • Collaborate with product development:

    • Appropriately inclusive of software development in the design process
    • Collaborate with software engineering, analytics, and QA teammates to bring ideas to life and products to market

  • Partner with product management:

    • Support the OKRs of product portfolios as the design subject matter expert (SME)
    • Contribute and develop ideas to help the portfolio achieve its business outcomes
    • Help the portfolio director understand the customer needs through research, interviews, workshops, story mapping, and similar techniques


Minimum Qualifications

  • 8+ years of digital product design experience, inclusive of mobile app design, web design, and design systems
  • 4+ years of design management experience
  • Experience leading design in an agile business environment, with portfolio examples
  • Familiarity with the full digital product lifecycle, using product roadmaps, story mapping, writing design stories, designing features, direct collaboration with development teams
  • Experience developing & implementing global design systems, with portfolio examples
  • Functional knowledge of: Design & prototyping tools (Figma, Protopie, Framer, Canvaa), Design research methods & tools (Ethnography, User Testing, Accessibility Compliance, Moderation), Collaboration tools (Miro, Confluence, Jira), Common UI technology (HTML, CSS, Material Design), Common mobile app frameworks (Flutter, FlutterFlow, React Native, PWA) and Microsoft Office Suite


Preferred Qualifications

  • Portfolio inclusive of digital project work showing end-to-end experience: from ideation to launch
  • Articulate about digital product design as a practice, and supportive of agility in design processes
  • Ability to generate, visualize and prototype new concepts to demonstrate and test with users and stakeholders
  • UCD certifications
  • Design Thinking training, workshop facilitation experience
  • Agile training or certifications, like SAFe Agilist
  • Industry involvement, active in the local design community


Physical Demands

  • Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
  • Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
  • May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs


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About Southern Glazers Wine & Spirits

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits is a beverage distribution company that provides a wide range of products and services to customers across the United States. The company offers a variety of wines, spirits, and beers, as well as related products and services, such as marketing and merchandising support, education and training, and logistics and transportation. Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits was formed in 2016 through the merger of Southern Wine & Spirits and Glazer's, Inc. The company is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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