Product Design Lead

We are looking for a Product Design Lead.This person will be in charge of conducing all the digital strategy ensuring that digital products deliver exceptional customer experiences in alignment with divisional priorities and enterprise customer strategies and objectives.

Requirements:

* Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Engineering, Design or a related field
* In depth understanding of emerging models and practices in human centered design and design thinking.
* Mastery in two to three areas of expertise such as Business Design, Service Design, Visual Design, or Interaction Design.
* Understanding of gaming, entertainment or other similar industries.
* 7+ years of relevant industry experience including experience developing design systems
* 4+ years people leadership experience including leading multiple cross-discipline teams

What You’ll be Doing:

* Define and execute the Digital UX strategy, aligning it with the Enterprise CX strategy and Digital divisional business objectives.
* Own and evolve digital Design System and UX standards through research and integration of emerging trends and best practice.
* Establish a holistic view across all digital labs; identify opportunities to enhance digital UX across all digital platforms and touchpoints and contribute to business cases that establish a vision for best-in-class digital experiences.
* Understand the vision and translate strategy to provide leadership to a team of Product Designers; establish work plan and drive project outcomes through strong collaboration.
* Understand the market, business and customer requirements and futuristic trends to inform various aspects of design, inclusive of user experience, content, product design etc.
* Identify opportunities to improve design processes and engagement with various stakeholders across digital labs and departments.

Leadership and Delivery:

* Engage with digital product and functional teams to develop a clear understanding of the problem statement / business requirements, user requirements to guide the design process.
* Lead the effort to validate Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) through Research, Pilot, and Launch to validate original hypothesis.
* Provide direction / final decisions where a proposed solution deviates from established standards in order maintain consistency of practice.
* Collaborate with digital labs to ensure designed products and touchpoints deliver on intent, address challenges and identify future opportunities.
* Ensure that lab approaches/decisions are aligned with documented UX/UI principles/standards/design system in order to ensure consistency in user experience across all digital products and channels.
* Evolve design methods, practices and guidelines which enable insights-driven consideration of design decisions and ensure proposed solutions are desirable, feasible and viable.
* Inform performance KPIs of launched products and services to guide performance optimizations and design iterations.
* Build, develop and lead a strong design team with an emphasis on collaborative thinking and attention to detail.
* Provide leadership and grow design capabilities within the agile labs, taking a holistic view of the customer experience in order to ensure cohesiveness across the spectrum of products, services and user journeys, and to enable agile labs to deliver against lab mandates.
* Manage relationships with lab teams, stakeholders, and third-party vendors and provide direction as it relates to the content and product design of digital products.

Salt is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.