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.
Platform Design:
The DMED Technology Platform Design team 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 where you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with many design groups and specialties to create innovative products that people love to use.
The Sr. Manager, Design – UX Design oversees the team that builds design patterns and templates for streaming, discovery, editorial, identity and commerce that goes across 10+ unique brands and 90+ websites/apps; and will be responsible for building, managing and mentoring a UX Design team. S/he 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 of DMED’s products.
Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for managing, leading, inspiring, and growing the UX Design Team
• You possess a clear vision of the future of UX Design and have the courage to pursue forward-thinking design solutions
• You will direct a systems-first design approach to define the future of media consumption and discovery across DMED
• You will provide 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 operate as the primary point-of-contact on 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 managers, 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:

• 8+ years of relevant industry experiences, of which 5+ 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 have a comprehensive understanding of different systems, theories, and practices of design leadership
• You have brought cross-functional teams together
• You are hungry for innovation, eager to challenge the status quo
• 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

Required Education

• Bachelor’s Degree