UX / UI Design Manager

Job Description

Responsibilities
We're growing our team of smart, innovative, and upbeat designers who crave the chance to build new solutions at the epicenter of content, tech, and culture. This is a chance to be a driving force on a team that's empowered to deliver great experiences.

We are seeking a Design Manager to help coordinate and deliver on the many initiatives for the NBC One App UX & Design team. The Design Manager will report directly to the Director of User Experience & Design and work directly with business stakeholders across various departments and throughout the company.

As Design Manager you will oversee a variety of projects collaborating with fellow members of the Design, Product, and Engineering Teams to conceptualize, design, prototype and develop business requirements into usable, useful and delightful products.
• As a leader in the UX Design Team, you'll coordinate with Product and Technology Teams to create industry leading digital experiences across mobile, web, and connected devices
• Work with product managers, project managers, developers and stakeholders to define/deliver innovative product experiences
• Work with a stable of great UX and UI designers to help coordinate delivery of premium experiences, from day-to-day operational assets to supporting long design term efforts for innovative new features.
• Help maintain relationships and communicate design standards with many groups, including, product, tech, project management, sales, and external teams.
• Manage the day-to-day operational tasks across multiple workstreams including intake, work assignment and progress.
• Coordinate product marketing needs for messaging and app store assets.
• Manage requests and quality assurance of art assets for multiple entertainment brands.
• Participate in requirements definition process with Product, UXD, and Engineering Teams.
• Ensure quality of experience meets our UX standards; collaborate on alternatives when scope or technical implementation challenges arise.
• Contribute to testing criteria for usability studies, A/B & MV testing of products and platforms as part of the design process.
• Maintain and communicate UX|UI consistency of experience across all platforms and brands.

Qualifications/Requirements
• 5+ years of experience as Senior UX Designer, Creative Director, or Senior Interaction Designer with a track record of successfully managing people and processes within a large-scale consumer facing organization or digital agency.
• Experience working with multiple squads supporting parallel efforts.
• Expertise with JIRA platform and Agile methodology.
• Knowledge of streaming platforms (OTT, Roku, Samsung, Xbox, Amazon Fire) is beneficial, especially the UX guidelines, design language and interface design elements used by these platforms.
• Skilled and knowledgeable in Sketch and Zeplin as part of a delivery workflow.
• Understanding of production processes and asset management.
• A strong, broadly ranging portfolio that includes process, design thinking, and sample UX deliverables. Should also include user interface and interaction design work.
• Interested candidates must submit a resume/CV online to be considered
• Must be willing to work in Universal City, CA
• Must have work authorization to work in the United States

Desired Characteristics
• Experience managing designers and design teams.
• Experience in a large-scale consumer-facing organization, preferably in the media space.
• Hands on team player who can handle multiple projects simultaneously of medium to high complexity.
• Able to think in terms of user goals, infusing work with empathy, and striving for accessibility.
• High degree of creativity and problem-solving abilities.
• Exceptional communication skills: communicate ideas through information & presentations.
• Drive to deliver compelling, best in class experiences for consumers and proven track record working with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Consumer Electronics, Entertainment & Lifestyle Product experience is helpful.
• A willingness to thrive and be happy as part of a world class UX team

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rzo6kq-18-116-85-72-42 in your application.