Senior Manager, UX Design and Research Strategy
Ford Motor Company
Associate Director, Digital Product Design
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • District of Columbia, Washington
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💰 $125,000 - $132,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- The Associate Director, Digital Product Design will be successful when they lead Digital Strategy teams through the adoption of Product Design systems programmatically throughout their work, bringing a user-centered approach to product discovery that contributes to the team’s strategy.
- The Associate Director, Digital Product Design will help to ensure that Product Designers are equipped to independently research and identify our target users’ core needs within the health care and education journey, while collaborating across multiple interdisciplinary product teams to launch new user experiences.
- Directly contributes to the broader Digital User Experience program strategy.
- Strategic thought leader and influencer among Digital Strategy leadership, product managers, and engineering leadership, ensuring all initiatives are aligned with the Product Design program & associated frameworks.
- Manages and mentors a team of two Product Designers, empowering them with the skills and tools to support the Product Design program across any Digital Strategy initiative.
- Advisor and thought partner to peers and more senior colleagues within PPFA and at affiliates.
- Management of vendors to provide tools and/or consulting services to PPFA.
- The Associate Director, Digital Product Design is responsible for strategic execution of programmatic design systems across the Digital Strategy ecosystem, ensuring that the Product Design team (including the Associate Director, where appropriate) can deliver the following bodies of work across the Digital Strategy portfolio concurrently:
- Maintain Accessible Design System - organize the structure and relationship of content to match natural user categorizations (e.g., site maps, service blueprints, readability).
- User Research - Collaboration with the User Research team to execute research and testing plans that include regular in-person and remote engagement that leads to synthesis of insights that are shared to Digital Strategy and other PPFA stakeholders
- User Experience Design - Defining the user experience within the PPFA digital ecosystem and ensuring that teams can build upon data-driven personas, patient journey maps, logic flows, wireframes, and concise product copy
- Visual Design - Pushing the collaborative evolution of accessible design patterns and themes, including visual design frameworks and supporting assets
- Interaction Design - based on prototypes and motion tests that enable users and product teams to better understand how proposed features will look, work, and feel before investment is made into development.
- Product Design Socialization - Leading cross-product evolution of Interaction Design patterns throughout the PP digital ecosystem, while empowering contributors beyond the Product Design team to employ PPFA’s design language
- Design Thinking - Be a champion for design thinking and human-centered digital innovation within Digital Strategy as well as with the broader Planned Parenthood Federation while leveling up Product Designers and other design peers.
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree in related field is preferred.
- 4-7 years expertise in designing and launching scalable end-to-end digital experiences.
- Required 1-2 years Demonstrated record of leading the implementation of product design programming & project management thereof.
- Required Strong product design portfolio with an emphasis on accessibility, minimalism and clarity across a diverse mix of digital formats, including websites, and mobile apps.
- Required 3-5 years Extensive experience with a variety of product design tools, including (but not limited to) Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, Figma, and online prototyping tools like Principal.
- Required 3-5 years Experience working with brand standards.
- Required 3-5 years Proven experience designing, conducting, and synthesizing lean user research.
