Principal Product Designer

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.

About the team
The DSS design team is a growing practice of multi-disciplinary creators and storytellers. We are passionate about building high-quality, innovative and authentic experiences that connect people with the content they love. We work where art meets science, exploring ideas by using the power of design to make the invisible visible. We believe in doing things that matter, cultivating a culture of diverse perspectives and collaboration. We celebrate our wins, but never settle.

Responsibilities:

We are looking for a Principal Product Designer to join our expanding International team. This is an opportunity to collaborate with the very best in design, product and technology to help shape industry-leading products used by millions across the world.
As a Principal Product Designer 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.
As a Principal you will:
• 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.
• Lead as a subject matter expert for the rest of the design team, providing design guidance, documenting and socializing best practices
• Provide thought leadership to develop the right design strategy, and use UX methodologies to bring value to the user and the business
• You are the domain expert for all designs owned by your team. You can speak crisply to the current and planned designs of the team's projects.
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of device platform best practices and guidelines.
• Adhere to and help shape our design system and brand guidelines, ensuring a high-level of quality, establishing a consistent look and feel throughout the product, and only diverging when the need is validated
• Collaborate with peers in research, product, engineering, and marketing on cross-functional projects from start to finish.
• 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:
• 12+ 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-g6kqb9-18-227-228-95-42 in your application.