Design Manager

About this role:

As the Design Manager, you will own and mature the Design Language across products and programs. Leading a team of UX and Industrial designers, your ability to define, implement, and maintain a design system across the company as a whole will have a direct impact to our overall success. You will collaborate with leadership, strategy, marketing, domain experts, and engineers to provide value to the experience.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Drive an end-to-end intuitive user experience across mediums (Web, Mobile, Industrial Design) and disciplines, with a focus on minimizing cognitive overhead of complex concepts
• Discover and define interaction designs and UI patterns through engagement activities with our warfighter community
• Lead a UI/UX team to define and deliver interaction design flows, scenarios, and structural layouts for both digital and physical product interactions
• Lead an Industrial Design team to inform the manufactured design of our physical products
• Partner with program management, hardware engineers, and industrial engineers to deliver thoughtful solutions for our tangible product lines
• Bring a multidisciplinary point of view of product design to the conversation, bringing creativity and diversity of thought from a design point of view
• Ability to self-motivate and consistently deliver results in a rapidly delivering and fast-moving organization

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience driving design for an organization
• Experience in prototyping and turning prototypes into shipped products
• Experience with Design Thinking processes and user-focused design principles
• 2+ years of experience in modern UI design software, such as Figma, Sketch, Principal, or Adobe
• Must have a portfolio or repository indicating interaction and visual design skills with the ability to design quality graphical user interfaces
• Experience in shipping and designing a web or mobile applications
• Experience with visual authoring tools used by software developers, mechanical, electrical, industrial, and system engineers
• Ability to self-motivate and consistently deliver results in a rapidly delivering and fast-moving organization
• A firm grasp of the concept of servant leadership. Positive attitude and optimistic outlook
• US Citizen
• Willingness and Ability to obtain US Secret Clearance. We can answer any questions regarding this process and walk you through the steps when obtaining it
• Your own unique talents! If you meet some requirements of this position but not 100% of the qualifications outlined above, tell us why you'd be a great fit for this role based on your specific characteristics that align with our values and goals

Nice to have:

• Current understanding of technology such as web, mobile, and know the constraints, be willing to push the limits and apply creative solutions that result in great user experiences
• A comfortable command of visual authoring tools used by software developers, mechanical, electrical, industrial or system engineers such as Visual Studio, Solidworks, or others
• Experience with industrial design and shipping physical products
• Familiarity with networking, network monitoring and networked systems
• Experience with physical products for use in rugged environments (aircraft, vehicles, off-grid, camping, etc)
• Experience with networked Linux systems is a plus
• Experience working alongside an agile software development team, including use of project management software and integration with scrum, agile etc
• Prior entrepreneurial experience is a plus