• Supervise multiple projects to drive innovation and creativity while maintaining schedule and budgetary guidelines.
• Design and execute UX research plan to generate user behavior insight and translate to UX design with execution until the whole product life cycle.
• Uncover and translate consumer, technology, innovation ecosystems, and business insights into actionable end-to-end product strategies and experience strategies.
• Work across all the design thinking phases, and lead user research, UX, and GUI projects, from user insights to ideation to development and then product launch to market.
• Develop compelling value propositions, key user scenarios, and frameworks to communicate strategic UX design directions.
• Provide a strategic UX language evolution for the product portfolio, long-term roadmap, and user, technology, and business cases.
• Inspire a holistic approach to designing excellent UX experiences
• Facilitate complex, multi-disciplinary workshops and ideation sessions.
• Build presentations with creative assets, compelling narratives, and coherent logical flow
• Critique design work, provide actionable feedback, and grow the team’s critical design thinking skills
• Enhance the performance and skill set of the team by promoting mentoring and educational opportunities

Skills: Project Management, UX Research, Design Thinking, Product Strategy, Value Proposition Development, UX Design Leadership, Workshop Facilitation, Design Critique and Mentorship

• Head up UX Design for Workday’s Talent Optimization pillar 
• Build, hire, empower, inspire, and retain a best-in-class design team that effectively delivers impactful design work that champions the user experience
• Lead, inspire, and mentor teams, promote their work, guide them, and bring them to the next level
• Serve as a design subject matter expert internally and externally, providing specialized thought leadership to others in the industry
• Espouse Workday’s Design Principles of Simple, Fast, and Clever across the organization
• Create and ensure adoption standards for products through cross-functional and company-wide communication
• Collaborate with creative directors, design teams, product management, and engineering to craft best-in-class user experiences for products
• Participate with other senior-level design managers to establish strategic plans and objectives
• Create and champion a user experience vision, along with a plan for evolutionary, iterative steps to get there
• Adept at recruiting top talent and finding growth opportunities for the entire team
• Coach and mentor other design managers
• Build relationships with other leaders at Workday

Skills: UX Leadership, Team Empowerment, Mentorship, Design Expertise, Design Principles, Collaboration, Strategic Planning, Talent Acquisition

• Develop collaboration models with the rest of the organization.
• Communicate the vision, and provide clear direction and feedback to the team.
• Evaluate research insights and respond to strategy direction given by the business.
• Prioritise and focus on key issues.
• Manage outside design agencies and/or freelancers on projects
• Manage design investments beyond UX – business design, concept design, and design doing.
• Drive cultural change toward design-led innovation
• Create design solutions that are meaningful, authentic, and customer-oriented across all the touchpoints.
• Define UX metrics against business drivers, measure, report, and enhance based on data analysis.
• Develop, implement, and train staff on a new product research process and visual design lifecycle
• Develop sustainable design and development practices by overseeing the development of pattern libraries and componentry
• Remain hands-on in the UI/UX design while the team scales
• Mentor and develop staff across the UX and design family of roles

Skills: Collaboration Models, Team Communication, Research Evaluation, Prioritization, Agency Management, Design-Led Innovation, UX Metrics, Design Process Development

• Work with the Product, Engineering, and Design teams to distill complicated problems into simple, minimal solutions in environment
• Partner with the product manager to discover, define, and deliver mission-critical experiences that fuel subscriber growth and enable customers to create the world's most convenient smart homes
• Help support a delivery team as well as coach and mentor other designers on the team
• Work with product and tech leads to build and support a world-class product team culture.
• Rapidly iterate product concepts through user testing, high-fidelity mocks and prototypes, user journey maps, storyboards, and more.
• Advocate for the customer through research, insights, and regular contact with a customer base
• Work closely with product management and engineering teams to implement designs
• Maintain and continuously improve the company's mobile app component library, clearly documenting patterns and ensuring consistent implementation of the system throughout apps
• Use Sketch and other modern design tools to design, prototype, and communicate ideas, get rapid feedback, and ensure a high degree of execution on final solutions.
• Think strategically about business, and Smart Home customers.

Skills: Product Collaboration, Mentorship, User Testing, Customer Advocacy, Cross-functional Communication, Mobile App Design, Design Tools Proficiency, Strategic Thinking

• Manage the Design Studio to serve Telenav’s business needs- including hiring, establishing the right culture, and set-up the right processes and relationships with other teams
• Inject design thinking into the milieu of the office
• Lead the design of beautiful, branded experiences that delight end-users across the multitude of screens that people use in the automotive context - vehicle center stack, instrument cluster, head-up display, mobile phones, wearables, and personal computers
• Lead and direct the CxD team from project concept to completion
• Interact directly with automakers and be an educator, listener, and advocate for their brand and the end consumer experience.
• Manage and track ongoing engagements, generate estimates, manage risks, issues, and resolutions
• Work closely with Product Managers, Software Engineers, QA Engineers, and Project Managers to define customer solutions
• Work closely with reference product and core technology teams to enhance and refine underlying software.
• Work closely with customization engineers to flawlessly implement the design
• Work with user experience researchers to identify and fix usability challenges.
• Ensure efficient team performance and continuous product improvement

Skills: Design Studio Management, Design Thinking, Cross-screen Design, Team Leadership, Client Interaction, Project Management, Cross-functional Collaboration, Usability Improvement

• Proven UX/IA working experience
• Ability to fulfill, facilitate, and lead UX/IA practitioners on, complex projects
• Experience performing stakeholder interviews, requirements gathering, and user research.
• Experience designing and leading efforts for software applications, at the enterprise level
• Knowledge of Web and mobile standards, technologies, and terminology
• Solid understanding of interaction design principles
• Proficiency with design tools (Adobe XD, Figma, Balsamiq, etc.)
• Successful consulting experience
• High-level computer and software skills
• Experience leading digital client engagements with creative teams

Qualifications: BS in Visual Communications with 4 years of Experience

• Experience leading design teams through several full product development cycles
• Successful experience as Executive Design Director, Executive Creative Director, Executive Art Director, or equivalent role.
• Experience creatively solving hard problems across complex products with simple yet transformational results.
• Experience with a variety of emerging interface types, e.g. voice, AR/VR, and gesture-based systems.
• Experience designing for ML systems.
• Demonstrated results leading integrated physical and digital experience design (ID and UX).
• Recognized globally as a high-judgment expert in design or related fields, and brings value to the design industry at large.
• Passion for learning and innovation, balanced with business needs and customer expectations.
• Demonstrated mentorship and success in growing and developing people and building high-performing teams.
• Able to work globally, company-wide, and with industry leaders.
• Experience in user research, particularly in qualitative methodologies.
• Expertise in typographic principles, motion design, and illustration.

Qualifications: BS in Cognitive Psychology with 9 years of Experience

• Combined UX and design experience as part of a product development team
• Experience as a player/coach for other designers
• Deep understanding of user-centered design methods related to digital products
• Experience working within an agile methodology
• Must be an expert with Adobe CS
• Expert with prototyping software - Figma, Sketch, etc.
• Experience working with user testing software and services
• Experience developing and evolving design systems
• Systems thinking, problem-solving abilities, and critical thinking skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience building sales and development opportunities, including project scope estimation and management, pitch delivery

Qualifications: BS in Graphic Design with 6 years of Experience

• Prior director-level experience at an agency (strong human-centered design process).
• Experience working as a design leader or manager
• Experience designing digital experiences in a fast-paced, cross-functional design and development team.
• A deep experience designing complex digital products (mobile apps, software applications, physical product UI, connected experiences)
• Must be a ‘full stack’ designer and a ‘player-coach’ kind of design leader.
• Mastery of driving a user-centered product design process.
• A track record of designing, building, and shipping Consumer or Enterprise digital software products.
• The ability to consume large amounts of quantitative and qualitative data to constantly refine assumptions.
• Love technology and inventing new ways tech can enable breakthrough user experiences that transform what a product can be.
• The ability to collaborate with designers, user researchers, engineers, product managers, and executives, and inspire them to do their best.
• Be highly proficient with Sketch, InVision, Framer, Principle, and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Professional portfolio to present and communicate approach, process, work, and accomplishments

Qualifications: BS in Interaction Design with 8 years of Experience

• Proven history of Product Design leadership for hardware, software, mobile, home electronics, and wearables 
• Commensurate experience in interaction design (software, mobile, web, other media), and an emphasis on conceptual, visual, interaction design, and strategic thinking.
• Experience successfully leading multi-disciplinary, multi-sensory design teams and leading full life cycle design projects, from design strategy through execution and market introduction in the consumer electronics space.
• An extraordinary portfolio of shipped (released) work that demonstrates impactful design team leadership and exemplary understanding of human-centered design principles.
• Exhibit industry-leading, high aesthetic judgment that displays universal appeal across a range of product categories.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and all levels of an organization
• Experience synthesizing large, strategic, and challenging business, technology, and customers’ needs into actionable plans with demonstrated impact that leverage innovative visual and motion design expressions.
• Proven experience with rapid, iterative design and development processes that deliver results leading digital content, e-commerce, and service design.
• Fluency in best practices for multi-platform information architecture and design, as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques.
• Expert skill level with standard design tools such as Photoshop, Sketch, Figma, and In Design and the willingness to roll up the sleeves to meet business and product deliverables.
• Able to work confidently with Program Management, Development, Product Planning, Brand, Marketing, and Usability to understand the array of technical constraints, user goals, and business requirements that shape a product.
• Possess strong resource and planning skills including the ability to staff and manage design teams against high-level roadmaps, projects, and priorities, in a fast-paced innovation-led organization.
• Strong bias for action including the ability to juggle multiple priorities and effectively deliver in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Qualifications: BS in Human-Computer Interaction with 14 years of Experience