Design Manager

Job Description

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 specifically on Disney+, still in its first year. The design team has a pivotal role in the development of the product, giving form to new ideas that continuously improve and evolve Disney+ for our guests.

As a Product Design Senior Manager on the Disney+ Team, you will focus on the total content experience - home screen to video player. You will lead a small team of designers, innovating on a variety of features that showcase our world-class titles from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic. Reporting to the Senior Director of Design in San Francisco, you will be a part of a dynamic product design team that spans San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam

Responsibilities:
• Lead a team of 2-4 designers, ranging from middle to principal level.
• Coach the team through product ideation and development using a mature, modern design process.
• Facilitate the successful delivery of design from concept to deployment.
• Design complex, multi platform interfaces using Sketch, Abstract, Zeplin and Invision.
• Demonstrate full stack expertise in Visual / Brand design.
• You are the domain expert for all designs owned by your team. You can speak crisply to the current and planned designs of your team's projects.
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of device platform best practices and guidelines.
• 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.
• Keeping up with industry trends, you'll identify areas for improvement for the overall product design team covering people, process, and practice. Partner with the DesignOps team in creating an action plan.

Basic Qualifications:
• 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, theories and Design principles 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, adept at removing roadblocks and rebalancing as needed.
• A growth mindset - you see opportunity in ambiguity.
• Comfort in scaling and as needed, ability to recruit talent that meet and exceed the DSS talent bar.
• 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.
• Experience with various design tools - Sketch, Abstract, Invision, prototyping tools.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d9mkkr-18-220-106-241-42 in your application.