Job Summary:DMED Technology Design:
Design at Disney is at the forefront of creating intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that
our fans love and crave. We strive to design high-quality end-to-end experiences while
maintaining an inclusive and collaborative culture. To us, team-fit and attitude are as important
as hard design skills.
DMED Technology Design is the unified design org for 90+ customer-facing websites/apps
and hundreds of enterprise products in the Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution
(DMED) Technology organization. We are the storytellers responsible for adding “something
special” to our consumers’ experience every day through exciting design, artwork, branding and
UX globally. We are responsible for driving the product design, user experiences, creative
direction, production design, motion design, service design, UX copywriting, UX research and
UX engineering. It is our job to create a framework that delivers consistent, creative and
innovative user experiences for people – whether they are using Disney’s consumer-facing
products, or the platforms, products and tools that help power our business. Crucially, how we
do that work must be both imaginative and efficient, allowing us to also free our team devote
energy to using design to drive innovation.
The consumer portfolio we get to design for includes many of the most trusted and beloved
brands in the world – ABC, ABC News, Disney, ESPN, Freeform, FX, Marvel, National
Geographic and Star Wars. These are great products, and our charge is to always imagine ways
to make them even better; to deliver happiness and magical moments through artistry and
inventive design, reinforcing the emotional connection between consumers and Disney’s
brands.
The enterprise portfolio we are responsible for is also critically important – and our colleagues,
partners and businesses will be relying upon us to bring the same kind of imagination, ease and
consistent excellence to those experiences.
Product Design:
The DMED Technology Product Design team delivers transformative consumer-facing product
innovation across Mobile, Desktop, and TV apps for our consumer experiences. This mission
includes delivering brand-specific consumer experiences, building cohesive user journeys
within a product family, partnering across Product, Engineering and other business partners,
and working with Design team members directing rapid visual concepts, producing high
fidelity visual design. We are a multi-disciplinary design team where you’ll have the
opportunity to collaborate with many design groups and specialties to create innovative
products that people love to use.
Job Summary
The Director, Design is passionate about a best-in-class craft, storytelling, guiding design
processes, mentoring members of your team, and collaborating with leaders of other Design,
Product, Engineering, and Business teams to create innovative experiences across all DMED’s
products. S/he will lead the product experience innovation of apps and websites for a specific
product area such as Sports, News, Editorial, Entertainment, and Studios. S/he can ship
ground-breaking product experiences and continue iterating it to disrupt the convention.
Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for managing, leading, inspiring, and growing the Product Design Team
• You possess a clear vision of the future of Product Design and have the courage to pursue forward-thinking design solutions
• You understand consumers and can solve their problems through product innovation and forward-thinking design solutions
• You will lead a systems-first design approach to define the future of media consumption and discovery across DMED.
• You will provide day-to-day design leadership that builds a shared understanding of the holistic user-centric intersection of design, content, business, and engineering
• Your design work sets an example that all designers want to follow
• You will lead a brand-specific design innovation that disrupt the way consumers interact with media.
• You will be a design activator, working to deliver a platform vision and strategy that balances revolutionary framework projects along with a plan for evolutionary, iterative updates to realize a more extensive vision
• You will operate as the primary point-of-contact on critical strategic initiatives for design leadership and cross-functional partners
• You will be expected to partner with a variety of teams, inspiring confidence that your team will deliver compelling user experiences that are cohesive, inclusive, and well-informed on time.
• With fellow design directors, you will contribute to the creative ethos of the design team’s culture, community, processes, diversity, and inclusion while setting new standards in excellence

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years of Design/Creative experiences, of which 7+ years of management experiences
• You have managed, lead, and inspired teams of designers
• You have resource planned and staffed projects and groups based on the available skills to deliver excellent design solutions on time
• You are a true innovator, and enjoy creating something that disrupt conventions
• You have experiences delivering consumer-facing innovation that transformed the way consumer interact with media
• You have a broad and comprehensive understanding of different systems, theories, and practices of design leadership
• You have identified and set platform strategies, envisioned complex user interactions, and inspired teams to push the boundaries of what’s possible
• You have delivered innovation with extremely short timeframe (ie. Within 20 weeks) and can share the process of how you initiated the work and invented it
• You have brought cross-functional teams together
• You are hungry for innovation, eager to challenge the status quo
• You have influenced, defined, and scaled complex company-wide platform design strategy in a fast-paced environment
• You can communicate complex interaction concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization
• You have managed multiple stakeholders and priorities simultaneously