Sr Manager, Lead Designer UX
Lead User Experience Designer
(Sr. Manager Level)
Location Newton, MA
Responsibilities
- Lead UX project teams to bring human-centered design to the forefront of our
- digital solution creation process
- Help articulate a product vision, scope projects, and work with product owners
- and other partners to scope build out realistic project timelines
- Identify new product ideas and opportunities and drive the workstreams forward without supervision
- Lead teams to visualize and iterate design concepts at project-appropriate levels of fidelity
- Develop, conduct and analyze user research and use insights & data to help drive forward product vision
- Provide deliverables based on research, i.e. User Flows, Sitemaps, Wireframes,
- Prototypes, Lo-fi, and Hi-fi Mockups
- Break down large workstreams into smaller projects and delegate appropriately
- Manage and utilize resources across projects
- Ensure company vision is conveyed through consistent design
- Organize and present designs and projects to all levels of the organization
- Evangelize work and UX comfortably to any level of the organization
- Ideate, establish and help maintain a standardized UX process for creating
- products based on user research and data
- Manage and nurture teams of designers, supporting their autonomy, growth and
- development
- Build partnerships across teams, i.e. Design, Product, Engineering, and
- Marketing to create consensus and drive alignment
- Motivate team members to ensure high morale and high quality work output
- Facilitate conversations to freely bring forth ideas and drive groups to to
- consensus with best design input. Respect and encourages diversity of thought
- and expression
- Seek and encourage honest feedback. Comfort with delivering tough feedback
- and critique to team in a kind and constructive way
Qualifications
- 8+ years UX Design (Web, Mobile, E-commerce) experience
- A portfolio that demonstrates a strong understanding of UX and of beautiful,
- intuitive, and thoughtfully crafted interactions across desktop, tablet and mobile
- Expertise and ability to mentor in 3+ areas of the design practice (eg. Strategy,
- Research, Interaction Design, Wireframing, Visual Design, etc.)
- Expertise in Human Centered Design and Design Thinking principles
- Ability to facilitate a high-morale, motivating team environment
- Experience with Agile methodology
- Experience mentoring and managing a team
- Experience with project management strongly desired
- Experience with development a plus
The actual pay offered will be determined by multiple factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, job-related knowledge, skills, and geographical location. Individual compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.
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