Director User Experience Design

Job Summary

You’ll sweep us off our feet if you have...

• Experience building a world-class design organization from scratch
• Ability to define and advocate for a design vision and follow through with a plan on how to deliver against it
• Track record of shipping high-impact, high-visibility products in a fast-moving and changing environment – one that celebrates experimentation, iteration, and shipping
• Built and led multi-disciplinary teams of designers and researchers while creating a strong design culture obsessed with the design craft
• Experience leading product design process and building strong cross-functional partnerships 
• Excellent visual and interaction design skills and a keen understanding of trends in the marketplace for data tools and visualization
• A strong strategic mindset and a systems thinking approach
• A skilled change maker who is not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo 
• A deep understanding of data and enterprise software
• A high bar for design quality, and can set new standards for design delivery
• Ability to communicate concepts in a clear and compelling way to audiences of all levels of understanding and levels of seniority
• Ability to produce great work in short timeframes, multitask across different projects and platforms and adapt to the ever-changing priorities of the business
• Deep experience with business requirement gathering, end-to-journey mapping, facilitating sessions like Design Sprints, conducting competitive analysis, and leading rapid concepting and prototyping
• Champion of a design philosophy that is inclusive of all people 

You’ll make an impact by:

• Driving the design strategy and delivering on the future vision of our data-rich strategic products and services, with a strong focus on advertising tools
• Partnering with the business, engineering, and product partners to create a compelling vision that will inform the roadmap our forecasting and advertising software and services
• Owning and delivering all phases of product design work across the portfolio (these include defining the north star, distilling research, design ideation, prototyping, final spec design, implementation)
• Leading your team in a way that nurtures the unique strengths of each member and brings them together in a way that has multiplying effect 
• Facilitating creative problem-solving across cross-functional partners to drive best-in-class thinking from all parts of the organization and seamlessly integrating competitive organizational goals 
• Driving and holding others accountable to create experiences that celebrate and empower our end users
• Proactively soliciting, leveraging, and sharing design research, competitive research, data, and analytics to create full-featured and strategic products.
• Fostering a maker mindset so teams can iterate and experiment collaboratively to challenge the status quo, drive new thinking, and improve processes for creating future-forward product experiences
• Thinking holistically so that we build true end-to-end experiences
• Switching gears from deep design thinking to rapid-fire execution
• The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

• Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a Design related field and 15+ years of experience in product design, with at least 8 years managing teams of managers and individual contributors.