Design Director Strategy

The Design Director sets the vision for the best user experience. You will create a space for cross-functional partners to collaborate effectively. You will use your knowledge of and experience in the Design Thinking process to collaborate with partner teams, facilitate conversations, create concepts, run design sprints, and build rapid prototypes to test and learn from users and inform prioritization and impact.

While working with partners to determine a shared plan forward that balances business, user, and technology considerations, you will create and champion an experience that is highly engaging and usable and deliver pixel-perfect detailed design with your team. By innovating on one of the world's biggest stages, you will have the chance to shape the future of retirement. If you are motivated by complex, purposeful, and engaging challenges, then we invite you to join us on our mission!

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Lead a team of designers that partner with research, content strategy, data science, legal and compliance, product management and engineering teams to establish modern best practices for end-to-end experience design and delivery, such as design research, journey mapping, personas, storyboards, concept designs, prototyping and final production designs for our end user experiences.
• Express yourself as a considerate thinker that sees the big picture, while understanding the business objectives, weaving viability, desirability and viability into our design decisions.
• Drive the experience with an outcome’s focus, actively scanning the end-to-end experience for new approaches, blending different ideas to challenge the teams with creative, yet effective solutions.
• Lead as an accountable achiever. Others rely on you to get things done, raising the bar for performance, while taking accountability for your own actions.
• Build trust-based relationships across boundaries and encourage collaboration. Show up authentically and adapt your own style to communicate impactfully.
• Express yourself as a continuous learner who is self-aware, curious to learn, and seeks feedback from others to continuously grow, always putting improvement over comfort.

Educational Requirements

• University (Degree) Preferred

Work Experience

• 5+ Years Required; 7+ Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

• Physical Requirements:
  
  Sedentary Work

Career Level

9IC

Job Overview

Our team is designing the future of retirement to improve the lives of millions of Americans. TIAA’s Design office’s mission is to build a design-led culture, while strengthening our design capabilities, to create an end-to-end experience vision that unlocks innovation. We bring dignity and access through design excellence to inspire and empower clients to pursue retirement security with TIAA.

Preferred Experience & Qualifications

• 7+ years of UX design and / or design management experience
• Strong and demonstrated background in: enterprise experience design; consumer product design; mobile platform design in an agile delivery model and a track record of shipping high impact outcomes in a fast-moving and changing environment
• Strong and demonstrated proficiency in:
  Figma, InVision, and Miro
• Demonstrated experience designing and contributing to a design system across an enterprise with an openness to partner and collaborate
• Driven by a sense of urgency to promote change and takes smart risks in pursuit of organizational and team goals

Note:

As part of the selection process candidates may be asked to provide work content in addition to completing an assessment.

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Related Skills

Accountability, Adaptability, Collaboration, Communication, Consultative Communication, Continuous Improvement Mindset, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Innovation, Prototyping, Relationship Management, Test & Learn Mentality, User Experience Design

Anticipated Posting End Date:

Base Pay Range: $110,300/yr.

- $188,300/yr.

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, the competitive compensation package may include, depending on the role, participation in an incentive program linked to performance (for example, annual discretionary incentive programs, non-annual sales incentive plans, or other non-annual incentive plans).