Manager, Product Design, Product Identity

Job Description

Manager, Product Design, Product Identity (Disney+)

Disney Streaming Services is changing entertainment. Our mission is to create the best viewing experiences and to push the envelope of what's possible across the full range of devices from phones to televisions. It's an incredibly exciting time to work in streaming media, and to work across our flagship products: Disney+, Hulu, and Star+ (available in Latin America). The design team has a pivotal role in the development of these products, giving form to new ideas that continuously improve and evolve our products for our guests.

As a Product Design Manager on the Product Identity team, you will focus on the total content experience - home screen to video player - to ensure that our design work aligns with the brand tenets of each product. You will lead teams of designers, innovating on a variety of features that showcase our world-class content from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, Hulu and ESPN+. You'll report to the Senior Director of Product Design, and you'll be a part of a dynamic product design team that spans San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam.

Responsibilities:

What You'll Do
• Manage a team of designers by mentoring and creating growth opportunities for them
• Coach the team through product ideation and development using a mature, modern design process.
• Facilitate the successful delivery of design from concept to deployment.
• Represent the team and their work to stakeholders and external collaborators.
• Collaborate with peers in research, product, engineering, and marketing on cross-functional projects from start to finish.
• Lead your team in mapping out their career development path, and course correct their development, using regular 1:1 meetings and semi-annual reviews.
• Identify areas for improvement for the overall product design team covering people, process, and practice. Partner with the design ops team in creating an action plan.

Basic Qualifications:

What You'll Bring
• 8+ years' experience as a designer working on consumer products.
• Experience leading and managing a team of designers through at least one full product development cycle.
• A high level of creative craftsmanship, translating strategies into inspiring concepts and successful executions.
• A strong interest in visual storytelling, and an innate curiosity about people and their relationship to entertainment.
• The discipline to prioritize work and resources across engagements based on short and long-term needs.
• A growth mindset - you see opportunity in ambiguity.
• A sense of determination - leading product development with new ideas based on a strong sense of our customers, their goals, our content, and our value proposition.
• An ease in presenting design work to a variety of audiences.
• A passion for evolving the design practice – its people, processes, and tools.

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