Manager, UX Design and Research

Mid / Senior

In Office

UX Design Manager leads the compelling and creative experiences that strike a balance between the consumers’ intent and the business’s needs. He or she plays the strategic role of aligning the product’s roadmap with consumer/market needs, hereby, creating balanced and elegant product solutions amidst constraints in the product’s technical framework.

The core focus is the facilitation of product experience creation, while assisting in the ground product marketing and product advocacy guiding the consumers through the product experience and leading them to all of the product’s key usability points, hence, optimizing the consumers’ experience as a whole.

You will be taking on a leadership role involves building, leading, and growing a highly collaborative team; inclusive of the Visual Designer, Senior Visual Designer, Interaction Designer, Senior Interaction Designer, UX Researcher, and Senior UX Researcher and other product departments.
You will be the champion for the fusion of the consumer experience through the development of consumer plans to be utilized by this collaborative team.
You are a thought leader of the UX department who has excellent leadership skills to move contributors towards a unified vision. At this capacity you are also responsible for instilling confidence in product teams in order for them to trust your judgment and feel free to articulate their judgments and preferred choices to you.
Due to a constantly changing consumer preference, you must also constantly amend and communicate the vision in order to deliver the next paradigm in customer experience, hence, always keeping the business’s product relevant and engaging to the consumers.
We expect our UX leaders to inspire GEP business and departmental culture, values, and brand promise.

Desired Profile:

Must have 4+ years’ experience leading a group of 4+ UX designers
10+ years’ experience in individual design contribution in B2B setting
Ability to manage CEO’s and C-Suites expectations, managing and triaging Developers and product manager expectations and constant demand, while balancing pressure and redistributing work load to Design team members

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Manager, UX Design and Research

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