Head of Design Department

Responsibilities

• Manage UX/UI Design Team strategy development and implementation
• Work closely with CEO for design UX/UI Design Team strategy and set goals for growth
• Manage and design UX/UI Design Team operational process, organize and coordinate operations in ways that ensure maximum productivity of the UX/UI Design Team in vectors: people, processes, and procedures
• Manage the UX/UI Design Team customer services development, implementation, and provision
• Access market conditions related to the services provision, promotion, and development
• Find ways to increase the quality and reduce the cost of customer services
• Manage the UX/UI Design Team’s resources utilization, engagement, and workload
• Plan and monitor the UX/UI Design Team resources allocation on the company’s projects. Makes a decision about whom to allocate to project or service based on skills and workload
• Work closely with the Recruitment Team for recruitment of the UX/UI Design Team staff
• Work closely with the HR Team for the UX/UI Design Team human resources management
• Manage the UX/UI Design Team internship program: develop an internship program, assign mentors to monitor and coordinate the internship period, make a decision about the closing of the internship
• Manage the UX/UI Design Team budgets and profit allocations, evaluate and improve the UX/UI Design Team financial performance through establishing of effective UX/UI Design Team resources utilization system
• Represent the UX/UI Design Team in public, promote services among the company clients, the UX/UI Design Team staff, and in the market through external communication

Requirements

• Strong management and operational skills
• Understanding all design process stages, using familiar designers techniques based on business and user-centered approaches: personas, interviews, competitors analysis, UX audit, wireframing & prototyping, user testing
• Ability to build and implement the operational process, share and set-up strategy-oriented mindset among the subordinates
• Ability to organize the work across the Design team, defined goals and KPI’s for the team
• Excellent people management skills, ability to manage and plan the Design team staff workload, and involvement in the company’s projects
• Good organization and time management skills
• Coaching skills: ability to continuously monitor the technical work done by Team staff, develop and implement educational programs and activities
• Strong decision-making skills, ability to perform effective decisions (to hire a candidate, allocate the right person to the project, etc.)
• Strategic mindset, ability to define, set up, and implement operational strategies
• Ability to develop and achieve strategic plans
• Experience in planning and budgeting
• Excellent communication, public speaking, and presentation skills
• Ability to work with clients to understand requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision
• Expertise in design tools such as Sketch/Figma, InVision, basic knowledge of HTML/CSS
• Knowledge of design guidelines for web and mobile platforms
• Understanding the opportunities and limitations of the technology that the design solution will be expressed in and working with developers to determine its implementation
• Awareness of current trends in web/mobile design and web/mobile technologies

We propose

• Opportunity to work in a large, professional design team
• Clearly defined role and area of responsibility
• Motivation and support from the company to raise the qualification level and study new design practices
• Opportunity to work on interesting, constantly evolving projects
• Use of advanced tools, techniques, and methods during the design creation
• Opportunity to implement your initiatives to optimize the design process in the company
• Review of compensation every six months
• Compensation for training activities and educational resources
• Reimbursement of expenses for visiting health and sports centers
• Paid vacation and sick days

Why you?

Motivation