Director Digital Product Design

Location

Dallas, TX

• Comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage
• Dental and vision plans
• Tax‑saving Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Disability coverage
• Life insurance plans
• 401(k) plan
• Tuition assistance
• Wellness program
• Parental leave
• Vacation accrual
• Paid sick leave
• Other benefits

• 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, giving clear and actionable feedback to team members
  • Provide motivation and recognition for job performance
  • Hire and mentor full‑stack digital product designers
  • Support culture and diversity initiatives within the team and the company
• Present design ideas:
  • Lead design reviews with executive‑level colleagues
  • Provide solid rationale for design decisions
  • Make compelling and persuasive presentations of ideas, concepts, and in‑progress design work

• 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:
  • Include 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

• 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, Canva), 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, Flutter Flow, React Native, PWA) and Microsoft Office Suite

• 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
• UCD certifications
• Design Thinking training, workshop facilitation experience
• Agile training or certifications, like SAFe Agilist
• Industry involvement, active in the local design community

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (keyboard, mouse, 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 20 lbs

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