Director of Product Design

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