Design Manager

The design manager will lead the user experience, Process and Product Design portfolio. The successful candidate will be responsible for owning the UI/UX design process from research through to conceptual design as well as supporting creation of documentation for the product. We are looking for a candidate with leadership and a strong creative mindset who can manage a team of talented UI/UX professionals.

• Run design workshops with customer stakeholders
• Lead strategic partnerships with SAP and Apple
• Lead setting up a design center for development location in Calgary, Canada
• Effective designing, thought provoking and bar raising digital products experience and cutting-edge creative solutions for web and mobile
• Participate in iterative process of delivering as well as critiquing designs to ensure effective and consistent design throughout
• Translate product usability into digital and online content
• Lead a team to partner with multiple stakeholders, including product managers, engineers, organizational leaders and other designers, in drafting and brainstorming/conceptualizing initial concepts
• Create workflows, personas, interaction flows/information architecture, low fidelity mock-ups and high-fidelity prototypes
• Identify, prioritize, and track usability issues and make design recommendations
• Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints
• Keep an eye on trends and developments in the industry and identify capabilities that should be adopted
• Provide final detailed design specifications and assets for developers/engineers to implement

Required Skills:

• Background in UI/UX and preferably in B2B and enterprise applications. Proven track-record of success in bringing ideas from creation to execution
• Portfolio with a strong track record of executing the design process
• Fluency in best practices for information architecture and interaction design, user-centered design process, as well as strong knowledge of user experience principles and techniques.
• Experience with resources such as pattern libraries and design systems
• Experience working in a collaborative team and directly with geographically distributed developers for implementation of designs or creation of content
• Previous people management experience
• Strong written, verbal and presentation communication skills
• Ability to take independent action and interact with varying levels of leadership across the organization and with internal and external clients