Design Director, Design Systems - WONGDOODY (Remote)
As a Design Director, Design Systems will lead Visual Design teams and best practices within the WONGDOODY Experience Design team. You will create and innovate digital visual design experiences for Fortune 1000 brands across Financial Services, Tech, Telco, and Life Sciences.
You will lead the definition and implementation of a digital visual design strategy for an experience. You are comfortable managing, inspiring, guiding, and leading large project teams or a portfolio of project teams. You bring a rich, deep experience of having created experiences in certain industries and complex projects to bear. You will support new business in the creation of proposals and pitches to win new work and consult existing clients to strengthen our relationships and ensure we deliver high design quality and client value.
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You will collaborate with the client and teams often comprised of Designers, Developers, BA, Product Owners, Product Managers, Creative and Brand Stakeholders, and Delivery Managers to deliver thoughtfully crafted visual design.
The role requires a focused and thorough individual with successful prior experience designing robust and innovative visual design and design systems. You are comfortable delivering fast-paced, scalable design that often requires deployment across multiple digital platforms, using tools like XD, Figma, or Zeplin.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Collaboratively design world-class products, services, and experiences
Serve as the SME for the client on project-related activities and beyond. Proactively identifies risks and issues and proposes mitigation solutions; participates in client visits, guides and channels client’s design vision; provides regular reports, articulates value, and manages expectations in order to increase client satisfaction.
Pitch work to clients and partners and facilitate workshops
Support New Business in effort estimation
Distill business requirements, market research and user needs into actionable insights. Derive, articulate and test hypotheses
Work with your team and the client on a journey of product creation based on insights
Drive brilliant interface and Brand Experience design
Partner with client brand, creative, and engineering stakeholders to synthesize requirements into a visual design strategy
Direct development and roll-out of visual design strategy across multiple product tracks, digital interfaces, form factors, and experiences (including globalization)
Direct team and collaborate with engineering teams to create and evolve design systems
Direct design audits
Advocate for, and ensure visual design is compliant with Accessibility requirements for the user interface
Drive development of new components or incremental enhancement to existing design systems
Inspire and motivate an energetic and collaborative team
Responsible for performance management of your more junior designers
Work closely with team members across time zones to ensure ways of working, quality and best practices are in line with WONGDOODY’s standards.
WHAT YOU'RE LIKE
Highly organized, with abundant care for the details and respect for the craft
Passionate about the user and providing meaningful experiences
Clever and curious, always noodling your next extra-circular project or jaunt
Eager to work within cross-functional teams
Strong relationship-building skills, especially across disciplines and timezones
WHAT YOU'VE GOT
10+ years of experience working at leading digital agencies as an experience design practitioner, with foundational depth in visual design.
extra bonus points for: working at a startup or having the opportunity help shape an approach or end product
Dynamic portfolio of complex, digital experiences for global brands
multichannel deliverables including mobile, tablet and web
ex: digital products, connected experiences, or services
Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and vision (not just 'how it should look' but 'what and how we should build')
Bias for action and tolerance to navigate a sometimes ambiguous environment
Excellent communication and client-facing presentation skills
Exceptional abilities to explain visual design rationale, to align and persuade stakeholders, and to drive conversation
Solid understanding of other disciplines (such as business, technology, delivery, marketing, and content) needed to create a brilliant product
Appreciation for other disciplines (such as business, technology, delivery, marketing, and content) needed to create a brilliant product
Experience pitching for, winning and maintaining large programs of product delivery
Experience rolling out large products from proposition through to delivery – not just across the design spectrum
Significant hands-on experience creating a wide range of digital visual experiences across channels, industries and audiences
Experience with design system and asset management tools such as InVision, Frontify, UXPin, Framer, etc.
Ability to define the approach, plan and estimate the effort for new, complex pieces of visual design work
Ability to collaboratively work with other experience design team members to create visual design that supports the usability and experience of digital products
Experience managing a governance process that controls decision-making, contribution, enhancements to a design system
Familiar with design system methodologies such as atomic design, material design, carbon, bootstrap, and others
Familiarity with UI frameworks such as REACT and Angular
Experience integrating design into large, complex, scaled Agile programs across various frameworks (e.g. SAFe, LeSS, etc.)
An appreciation of the other disciplines needed to create a brilliant product, such as business, technology, delivery, marketing, and content
And of course, proficiency across in Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, InVision, Craft, Zeplin and Keynote
Our business is global and occasional international travel is to be expected
A sense of humor!
TO APPLY: For full consideration please upload both a resume and cover letter.
THE PERKS
We’ll pay you to come work at WONGDOODY, because we’re generous like that. But on top of your paycheck, you’ll receive a whole lotta benefits to help keep you healthy, secure and balanced. You’ll get great health insurance (paid in full), 401k with company contribution, extended winter holiday, flexible summer hours, and volunteer time off just to name a few!