Job responsibilities
- Drives a culture of deep collaboration with US based teams to deliver excellent customer experiences and be able to function as a design site lead
- Partners with US based Design leads (who run book of work portfolios) to scale delivery capabilities, ensuring that we create high quality engineering ready design specifications.
- Creates a culture of customer centric efficient design delivery that enables more US based teams to execute more research and discovery of solutions for strategic initiatives.
- Mentors junior designers to execute complex projects and ensure alignment with business objectives and user needs across multiple product areas.
- Drives craft excellence in design wireframes, and prototype interactions for key touchpoints across all teams.
- Drives quality and adoption of inclusive design practices and accessibility guidelines, and foster a culture of diversity and inclusion.
- Collaborates with US leads to integrate user experience design into the product development and technology processes to ensure seamless and customer-centric solutions
- Supports efforts to utilize feedback from user research, and data insights to inform design decisions and optimize user experiences across various platforms and channels
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in partnering with US based design leaders to deliver projects for US retail market consumers.
- Expertise in managing user experience design teams or similar roles
- Demonstrated ability to create visual representations of user journeys, such as storyboarding, wireframes, and prototypes
- Demonstrated experience in inclusive design and accessibility guidelines, with the ability to incorporate diverse perspectives and abilities into design solutions
- Proven ability to develop experiences that meet or exceed the initial proposal of a product or experience, including the development of transformational innovation strategies and the creation of 'north star' representations to drive customer-centric decision-making
- Advanced technical literacy, including an advanced understanding of client-side technologies, APIs, microservices, and the components of the technology stack, as well as their impact on user experience
- Has a strong portfolio showcasing case-studies with tight narratives demonstrating personal ability to address business challenges by launching smart solutions delivered with exceptional craft and attention to detail.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience with transforming complex transactional B2C domains into elegant world-class intuitive experiences
- Design leadership or managerial experience within Travel, Finance industries
- Experience developing and managing design systems across web and native mobile surfaces.
- Experience with measuring usability and user experience performance of complex applications.