Your Role
Product Designer Managers, will manage a team of designers and guide them towards the vision of the product. A major part of your day will go deep-diving into requests from your product and engineering counterparts. You’ll help the team prioritize work and run design sprints or workshops. You’ll be the point of contact for internal stakeholders and will keep them informed on the progress and deadlines. Performance, process, and quality of design deliverables will be your major areas of focus.
A Day in the life
Managing a team of designers:
- Help the team groom and execute designs while adhering to the design guidelines to maintain consistency.
- Provide regular coaching and feedback to direct reports to help them grow functional skills and leadership capability.
- Foresee capacity issues and work with the business to plan and set expectations and track key metrics to meet goals. Participate in recruiting efforts.
- Communicate your team's goals and seek opportunities to collaborate with other teams working on related projects.
- Create an inspiring work environment. Actively bring out the best in designers helping both designers and team dynamics evolve.
Driving the product in the right direction:
- Lead the vision for your product alongside your product and engineering counterparts, while also defining how all of Innovaccer’s products work together.
- Contribute to your team's roadmap and goals by providing input from a user's perspective, and ensure that they're pursuing achievable, measurable, and impactful goals.
- Be a consistent user advocate as you make informed, data-backed design recommendations for superior interactions
- Partner with Customer Innovation, Marketing, and Product teams to evangelize user goals.
Improving and operationalizing design processes:
- Manage end-to-end team operations, handle design processes and related tools proactively engage managers and stakeholders.
- Identify improvements to processes and contribute to the root cause analysis with a focus on reducing rework and improving the quality of designs being delivered.
- Have a data-driven approach towards operational goals and key metrics for the organization.
- Give strong design direction to other designers on the team, encouraging creative use of the design process and principles to produce designs.
What You Need
- 8+ years of industry experience in software product design.
- Bachelor's degree in design, computer science, or a related field with
- at least 5 years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or a similar role.
- at least 3 years of experience managing a team of visual and UX designers.
- Master’s degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), computer science, or a related field with
- at least 4 years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or a similar role.
- at least 1 year of experience managing a team of visual and UX designers.
- Appetite for analyzing metrics, and building models around data to provide solutions and/or improve processes.
- Ability to work in a team, communicate deadlines and deliver as promised
- Expertise in design process/principles and applying those principles together
- Proficient in Figma, Miro, or similar design tools.
- Ability to collaborate, communicate effectively, and take a stand for user experience.
- Create an inspiring work environment. Actively bring out the best in designers helping both designers and team dynamics evolve.
- Basic understanding of software development processes, and agile methods to foster better designer and developer collaboration.
Preferred Skills
- Team management
- Performance management
- Review and enforcement of the design process
- Design mentorship
- Articulating design decisions
- Stakeholder management
What We Offer
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Industry-Focused Certifications: Meet leading healthcare experts, discuss innovative strategies, and become a subject matter expert with our comprehensive set of certifications.
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Rewards and Recognition: Feeling like you’re outperforming on your projects? Get recognition for your dedicated efforts and demonstrated work ethic.
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Health Insurance and Mental Well-being: We offer health benefits and insurance to you and your family for hospital-related expenses pertaining to any illness, disease, or injury. We also have Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) to give you 24X7 access to certified therapists and psychologists.
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Sabbatical Leave Policy: Do you want to focus on skill development, pursue an academic career, or just reset? We’ve got you covered.
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Open Floor Plan: Cubicles are a thing of the past and to modernize our office space, we have open floor sittings at every office location. Share ideas with your peers and bond better in an open floor office where there are no barriers and you are inspired to be creative.
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Paternity and Maternity Leave: Enjoy the industry’s best parental leave policy to welcome your bundle of joy and enjoy quality time with them.
- Paid Time Off: Maintain a healthy work–life balance and take time off from work to focus on your well-being and big life moments.
Disclaimer: Innovaccer does not charge any fees or require any payment from individuals or agencies for securing employment with us. We do not guarantee job spots or engage in any financial transactions related to employment. If you encounter any posts or requests asking for payment or personal information, we strongly advise you to report them immediately to our HR department at [email protected]. Additionally, please exercise caution and verify the authenticity of any requests before disclosing personal and confidential information, including bank account details.
