Director, Product Design

Advance Local   Church Street, NY   Full-time
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We are seeking a Product Design Director to join the our team to lead design initiatives through key phases of Product and User Experience (UX) discovery, UX strategy, and delivery - designing from concept to execution while defining the strategic UX vision across a variety of customer journeys, ensuring brand and UX consistency, and overall high quality of work. This position is a product thinker, UX researcher, and thought leader who represents the voice-of-the-customer in all product solutions.

 

For this position we're looking for candidates with:

  • Degree or certification in product design, visual design, UX design or related field
  • Minimum of twelve years’ design experience, and a minimum of nine years’ product discovery management experience including project-level design management
  • Preferred agency experience, with Design Org or Design Thinking practical experience
  • Demonstrated experience in leading design for consumer products – specifically for content publishers
  • Expert knowledge of design fundamentals: human-centered design, branding (typography, color theory), and design composition (Ui best practices, style guides and patterns)
  • Demonstrated experience in design frameworks both as a generative tool for design but also for uncovering new opportunities and achieving business goals
  • Demonstrated experience in developing UX research plans, designing and executing research studies, and synthesizing insights into actionable, meaningful takeaways
  • Expert knowledge of and practical experience in working closely with Product Management teams; informing product direction, roadmaps, and sprint planning
  • Ability to assess user and business outcomes of a variety of projects or features and make recommendations to drive positive impacts to product experience; understand complexity of front and back-end systems to propose new solutions
  • Prior team management experience is a plus. While this role won’t initially have direct reports it may over time.
  • Fluency with standard design software and platforms (Figma, Miro, Adobe Suite, etc.)
  • Strong communication and presentation skills (verbal and written)

 

This position requires a submitted portfolio of work and/or case studies that demonstrates required skills. Please upload as an attachment in the application process.

 

In this role you will:

  1. Lead visioning sessions to develop overall UX strategies and recommendations.
  2. Facilitate workshops with cross-functional leaders to align on insights, design solutions and strategies.
  3. Works directly with product leaders to develop shared vision and roadmap for product solutions, serving as recognized resource for design trends, process, and issue resolution with peer-level stakeholders.
  4. Synergize in-house product, content, revenue and insights teams around design initiatives.
  5. Develop communication material to inform different groups on value of design, frameworks, and techniques to improve overall work. Influence across the organization.
  6. Continually seek improvements to tools, ceremonies and work flows to optimize process; set a positive example for design team and other colleagues.
  7. Fortify company design system:  Help increase design fidelity and decrease design churn by contributing to a thoughtful design system.
  8. Design research plans/studies, conduct design related UX research and gather data to validate design choices.
  9. Develops, tests and refines prototypes.

 

 

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Advance Local

Church Street, NY