Job responsibilities
- Advocate for the users’ perspective when collaborating with Product Managers and Engineers to plan roadmaps, gather requirements, and structure the work
- Drive creation of new product and business strategy at the intersection of user needs and business goals
- Lead multiple, parallel teams in the design and re-design of end-to-end experiences across our AOA and CAMP offerings
- Communicate expectations within the design team for standards of quality through creative direction and critique
- Contribute to the creation of visions (“north stars”) that make strategy concrete
- Create strategic design deliverables such as strategy decks, customer journeys, visions of future experiences and evangelize these cross-product “blueprints” across teams
- Advance Chase’s practice in craft capabilities, internally through mentorship and training, externally through writing and conference presentations
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in relevant design discipline (e.g., Interaction Design, HCI, User Experience Design), certification from credible bootcamp or similar accelerated learning program, or 7 or more years of related work experience
- Can direct self and others in both planning and structuring the work, and executing on expected levels of quality
- Experience leading a program of work through full product development cycles in discovery, concepting, prototypes, specifications, and enablement
- Prior work involves leading design teams (with other Designers, UX Researchers, and Content Designers) and cross-functional collaboration with senior Product Managers and Engineering leads
- Expertise in Interaction Design, and strength in Visual/UI Design or Information Architecture; Intermediate proficiency in adjacent skills such as User Research, UX Writing, Prototyping, and Service Design
- Expertise in design systems, atomic design principles, Figma, and pattern libraries
- Strong facilitation skills and experience employing a variety of methods and techniques to run complex design-led workshops
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Advocate for Accessibility Guidelines and Inclusive Design practices
- Comfortable with structuring and planning design work in cross-functional contexts
- Able to show how their understanding of technical constraints and opportunities informed design solutions; Familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, frameworks such as React, and mobile UI standards