Your Impact As a Principal Product Designer you will lead the overall design process for highly complex, cross-functional requirements for our mobile apps while ensuring consistency in design across the company. This includes leading the development of innovative design solutions and resolving design deficiencies across multiple projects and project teams spanning a wide range of design domains and business areas. This role drives consistency in design decisions and standards across projects while ensuring that the team delivers high-quality design maps, user journeys, wireframes, supporting visuals, prototypes, and pixel perfect design comps. In addition, this role provides consultation to help ensure product design solutions are developed with insight into industry best practices. The Principal Product Designer works with designers, engineers, and content developers to lead the delivery of design projects in a timely and efficient manner and often provides creative approval of work completed by others on the design team.
Shape the future of Retail Tech As a Product Design leader, you'll be able to shape the future of retail technology alongside one of Forbes Top 50 CIOs. You'll also be leading a talented team who share your passion for innovation and excellence. Our halls are filled with brilliant minds from all walks of life who have the freedom to collaborate, explore their every curiosity, and build the future.
We have the stability you need to focus on looking to the future and bringing your team there with you. And you'll be surrounded by peers who are visionaries in their areas - people who can collaborate with you to challenge you, help you grow, and inspire you. Here, you will be empowered to explore new solutions and spearhead groundbreaking advancements in UX/UI. You have the autonomy to lead and create, backed by a team that trusts your vision and ability.
Innovate in Charlotte This position is based at our on-site Tech Hub in Charlotte, North Carolina. Lowe's Tech Hub is an ultramodern work environment, complete with cutting-edge technology, collaborative workspaces, an on-site barista and Zen Garden, and other perks to enhance your work experience.
What You Will Do- Drives alignment to design standards and industry best practices. Oversees the architecture and design of high-quality and engaged experiences for customers and associates.
- Leads the most complex design projects that span product groups or portfolios; owns overall design decisions across multiple highly complex projects that span design domains and have significant business implications. Reviews and signs off on high-impact, high-visibility design projects.
- Champions product design best practices, innovations, and trends across the organization; provides input and direction that helps the organization improve its practices; sets the standard for product design excellence. Works with product design team to ensure a consistent design experience across products, product groups, and product portfolios.
- Resolves the most complex design problems at the cross-portfolio enterprise level; works to simplify, optimize, and remove bottlenecks for the product design team.
- Builds and sustains key cross-functional partnerships to drive project execution and efficiency and enhance overall design quality.
- Holds expert knowledge of external processes and technologies, both standard and unique to the company, including the work processes, technologies, platforms, and services of business and technology capabilities.
- Coaches, directs, and approves designs for other product designers; facilitates complex design decisions among other product designers; shares an in-depth understanding of company and industry methodologies, policies, standards, and controls.
- Serves as a thought leader across all aspects of design projects, providing input and advice that helps improve and optimize the designs of others on the team.
- Helps shape and drive the team's roadmap in close partnership with product and engineering leads.
- Provides input into departmental budget forecasting and allocation decisions.
Minimum Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in interaction design, graphic design, industrial design, or related field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement, if applicable
- 10 years of experience in user experience design
- Experience defining and enforcing product design standards
- Experience building strategic cross-functional partnerships for the purpose of driving overall design capability
Preferred Skills/Experience *We encourage you to apply even if you do not have all the preferred skills or experience. *
- Deep expertise in native mobile app design, including Apple Human Interface Guidelines and Android Material Design guidelines, patterns, and platform conventions
- Demonstrated experience designing native iOS and Android experiences that balance platform-specific conventions with a cohesive cross-platform product and brand experience
- Ability to create high-fidelity, functioning prototypes that demonstrate native interactions, motion, transitions, and end-to-end product experiences for concept validation, usability testing, and engineering collaboration
Benefits- 401k with up to 4.25% match
- Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan (15% discount of strike price)
- Tuition-Free Education
- 10-week Maternity/Parental Leave
- 10% Associate Discount
For information about our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits.
