Manager, 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.
Platform Design lays the foundation across Mobile, Desktop, and TV apps for our consumer experiences. This mission includes the continued development and proliferation of our design system framework and platform user experience teams, including streaming, discovery, editorial, identity, and commerce patterns and templates. We are a multi disciplinary design team affording you the opportunity to collaborate with many design groups and specialties to create innovative products that people love to use. A designer at Disney is a creative problem solver who looks to collaborate inclusively throughout your design process and evolve the way Disney operates. Job Summary The Manager, Design will oversee the majority of design work that happens across our products, building and maintain trusted partner dynamics, establishing guiding principles to pixel perfection, and envision opportunities for product elevation through all aspects of the design process. They will be responsible for managing and mentoring a large team of Designers; highly innovative, creative, engaging, and able to work with all types of people; and deeply knowledgeable about design systems and high-quality user experiences
Responsibilities :
Roles & Responsibilities
• You will be responsible for managing, leading, inspiring, and growing the Design Team
• You understand consumers and can solve their problems through product innovation and platform-based design solutions
• You will be an expert of the DMED Technology Design System and anticipate opportunities to implement
• You will direct rapid visual concepts, produce high fidelity visual design, coordinate requirements with stakeholders and partners, and present design to executives and business partners
• Your design work sets an example that all designers want to follow
• You will operate as a point-of-contact on strategic initiatives for design leadership
• You will be expected to partner with a variety of teams, inspiring confidence that your team will deliver compelling design and UX that are cohesive, inclusive, and well informed on time.
Basic Qualifications :
• 7+ years of relevant industry experiences, of which 3+ years of management experiences
• You have led and inspired a team of designers
• You are a true innovator and eager to lead the creation of design solutions that challenge the status quo
• You have a track record of overseeing large bodies of work, multiple complex projects simultaneously and on-time delivery
• You have a broad understanding of different systems, theories, and practices of design leadership
• You have been proactive in bringing together groups of individuals to solve a problem
• You can communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization • You have managed stakeholders and set priorities
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