PRODUCT DESIGN THOUGHT LEADER - GLOBAL B2B BUSINESS
This international brand are going through a period of rapid transformation. With a newly formed centralised design squad the team are looking for a seasoned Product Design Director to join the business on a 12 month FTC.
What they need -
- A highly experienced Digital Product Design lead who is no stranger to managing complex products and knows how to lead on strategy across both product design & research
- Someone with a strong track record of building and scaling teams - an expert mentor & leader for the product design function
- A digital native who's accustomed to working with ambiguity and isn't afraid to help define processes and the roadmap for the team
- Someone who can confidently manage both upwards and downwards (across C-suite, product, engineering, etc), leading on digital best practice when it comes to enhancing the product
- A highly commercial business lead, who can manage budgets and resource across this geographically distributed team
- Someone who can capably set business priorities, becoming the champion across the business for best-in class user experience design
What you're great at -
- Devising clear product design roadmaps with a strong track record of delivering complex design solutions to enhance a variety of digital products
- Overseeing design teams, managing remotely, leading from the front and delivering exceptional team mentorship and management as processes & systems are put in place
- Collaborating with your product & engineering counterparts to deliver the most seamless product experience for the businesses valued users
- Working at pace within a complex and large corporation, managing stakeholders and teams, budgets and design resource
- Defining design systems, project managing the product design roadmap and providing strategic design direction for the design squad and wider business
- At your core you are an exceptional visual designer with strengths in user research, prototyping, UCD principles and design accessibility
What you'll get –
- 12 month opportunity to lead the design function for this globally recognised corporation
- Full benefits TBC