Head of Product Design and UX Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Head of Product Design and UX to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Take smart risks and champion new ideas;
- Be highly communicative both within the product management team and to stakeholders across the company;
- Make strategic design and user experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features;
- Lead design team meetings and communicate with teams via Slack and other collaboration tools;
- Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions;
- Lead iteration cycles with stakeholders and push designs forward according to the team’s vision and understanding of the business goals;
- Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs;
- Work with your team to optimize output and ensure that agreed deliverables are completed on time;
- Maintain and build design team workflows that ensure that all designs delivered are in line with our style guides and very high-quality standards;
- Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences and facilitate the product vision;
- Lead your team in expanding mastery of the business goals of each design request and pushing back on stakeholders with innovative UX/UI proposals;
- Always put the user first in design and drive exceptional customer experiences across our product portfolio;
- Empower and mentor your team, fostering a collaborative, productive, and positive environment.
Requirements:
- Ability to create and work towards an overall product design vision that meets and enhances business goals across the company;
- Proven experience of building and maintaining style guides and streamlined UI/UX workflows;
- You must be extremely pragmatic and have 5+ years of experience as a product designer with proven experience of leading design efforts;
- Must be able to thrive in a highly dynamic, flexible work environment and switch rapidly from strategy to execution;
- Significant experience working in Agile environments;
- Excellent time management and prioritisation skills;
- Highly skilled at critical decision-making; ability to evaluate business issues and resolve problems;
- Ability to consider long-term sustainability in all design decisions and maintain an eye for reusability in designs;
- Experience of leading one or more visual designers and collaborating with multiple product managers with specialized responsibilities;
- Experience with SaaS B2B software or, at a minimum, operationally complicated software (i.e not just single purpose apps).