Opportunity

The UX Team employs a highly collaborative style, helps establish a vision for the product and develops a consumer-grade UX for a complex business-to-business platform. The team uses a data-driven approach, employing user research methodologies to develop innovative designs that have direct, high impact for our customers. 

Key Responsibilities

The Director of User Experience (UX) establishes and drives the overall product design strategy at OpenX. In this role you will develop, evangelize, and execute on the vision and mission of the UX team.

You are responsible for the following:

• Setting up and managing the processes, systems and tools for delivering UX design to support a significant sized development team.
• Managing the prioritization and workload across a number of centrally managed UX resources.
• Creating the team structure, hiring, managing, training as well as mentoring all UX team members.
• Coordinating research studies, manage the priority and relationships needed for these studies and empower the designers to participate and use research, data, and insights to drive design solutions.
• Executing UX-based projects to refine, develop and enforce interface design, branding and UX best practices.
• Staying hands on with some level of UX research and projects.

Required Qualifications

• At least 10+ years of experience working on enterprise products, information architecture, systems design and UX.
• BA or Science Degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or Human Factors (CUA™).
• 2+ years experience using research, data, analytics as well as usability testing to design solutions.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design techniques coupled with deep user and business research techniques.
• 4+ years leading and managing design teams for enterprise applications
• Familiarity working in an Agile framework development environment.
• Experience in using research methodologies such as Affinity Mapping, Mental Models, Journey Maps, Card Sorting, Heuristic Evaluations, Ethnographic Interviews, Surveys, Usability Testing.
• Technical knowledge of Design Applications including Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Invision Prototyping, Omnigraffle, Adobe InDesign, Lucidchart, Optimal Workshop

Headcount

New

Department Head

[email protected]

POID

5220

Cost Center

7120

Engineering Requisition

No

Business Unit

Product

Internal Job Title

Director of User Experience (UX)

Kick Off Meeting

Yes

First Check In Meeting (9-14 Day mark)

Yes

2nd Check In Meeting (3-4 week mark)

Yes

Requisition Notes

Hiring manager interviewing both phone and on-sites, no candidate identified yet.