Director Digital Product Design
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 quality 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, give clear and actionable feedback to team members, 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
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
EEO Statement
Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.