Job Description
Job Description
About this role :
As the Design Manager, you will own and mature the Design Language across products and programs. Leading a team of UX and Industrial designers, your ability to define, implement, and maintain a design system across the company as a whole will have a direct impact to our overall success. You will collaborate with leadership, strategy, marketing, domain experts, and engineers to provide value to the experience.
Duties and Responsibilities :
- Drive an end-to-end intuitive user experience across mediums (Web, Mobile, Industrial Design) and disciplines, with a focus on minimizing cognitive overhead of complex concepts
- Discover and define interaction designs and UI patterns through engagement activities with our warfighter community
- Lead a UI / UX team to define and deliver interaction design flows, scenarios, and structural layouts for both digital and physical product interactions
- Lead an Industrial Design team to inform the manufactured design of our physical products
- Partner with program management, hardware engineers, and industrial engineers to deliver thoughtful solutions for our tangible product lines
- Bring a multidisciplinary point of view of product design to the conversation, bringing creativity and diversity of thought from a design point of view
- Ability to self-motivate and consistently deliver results in a rapidly delivering and fast-moving organization
Requirements
8+ years of experience driving design for an organizationExperience in prototyping and turning prototypes into shipped productsExperience with Design Thinking processes and user-focused design principles2+ years of experience in modern UI design software, such as Figma, Sketch, Principal, or AdobeMust have a portfolio or repository indicating interaction and visual design skills with the ability to design quality graphical user interfacesExperience in shipping and designing a web or mobile applicationsExperience with visual authoring tools used by software developers, mechanical, electrical, industrial, and system engineersAbility to self-motivate and consistently deliver results in a rapidly delivering and fast-moving organizationA firm grasp of the concept of servant leadership. Positive attitude and optimistic outlookUS CitizenWillingness and Ability to obtain US Secret Clearance. We can answer any questions regarding this process and walk you through the steps when obtaining itYour own unique talents! If you meet some requirements of this position but not 100% of the qualifications outlined above, tell us why you’d be a great fit for this role based on your specific characteristics that align with our values and goalsNice to have :
Current understanding of technology such as web, mobile, and know the constraints, be willing to push the limits and apply creative solutions that result in great user experiencesA comfortable command of visual authoring tools used by software developers, mechanical, electrical, industrial or system engineers such as Visual Studio, Solidworks, or othersExperience with industrial design and shipping physical productsFamiliarity with networking, network monitoring and networked systemsExperience with physical products for use in rugged environments (aircraft, vehicles, off-grid, camping, etc)Experience with networked Linux systems is a plusExperience working alongside an agile software development team, including use of project management software and integration with scrum, agile etcPrior entrepreneurial experience is a plus