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Director of Interaction & Information Design (In-House)

Director of Interaction & Information Design (In-House)

Denver Area

Full location name: 
Denver Area, Colorado, USA

This company is headquartered at the base of the Rocky Mountains in Boulder, Colorado. This is an opportunity for a design and technology-minded person with experience both in UX design and in managing creative teams.The company makes white-labeled, high-end, virtual finance tools for a variety of well-known clients. The products and UX challenges are very data-intensive, involving the aggregation of big data and news sources to create rich client tools and web applications. Experience with data manipulation and visualization tools as well as strong familiarity with financial service, investment, and personal finance concepts will be important qualifications for candidates.

About two-thirds of this position involves working in a client-facing setting on client projects, working with internal teams of designers and developers to build products, and participating in UX research and design production. The remaining third of the role is helping to oversee a team of 30-35 designers, reviewing work, mentoring, teaching, and supervising. There is also a constant undercurrent of strategic support of client projects as well as with the direction of the company's UX and design teams.

The work produced by this company is widely used, with billions of views each day, which means the UX design work is high-value and high-impact.

Portfolio Requirements

This company understands that design is about sophisticated problem-solving and not just visual design aesthetics. Be prepared to show how you've used research and interaction design techniques and artifacts (e.g., wireframes, personas, experience maps, etc.) to support thinking, design, and collaboration on complex projects, and how your work has supported interdisciplinary teams. This company will be interested to see how your portfolio demonstrates your ability to design visually appealing solutions to problems and apply user-centered design principles and practices. Because this company is highly focused on financial and big data solutions, it will be very important to include portfolio materials that are in those professional and problem domains.

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Requirements: 
  • Experience leading teams of designers
  • 6-10 years of experience as a practitioner of user-centered design and product development across multiple platforms
  • 3+ years of experience as a director, leader of a large team, or a practice lead
  • Advanced experience managing the creative development process in a client-services environment
  • Demonstrated ability to successfully collaborate directly with clients, manage expectations, ensure smooth communication, and generate consensus around UX deliverables and product strategies
  • Ability to guide and inspire a creative team from concept through delivery
  • Capable of managing deadlines, predicting risk, and staying on top of projects that require extra attention
Key Functions & Deliverables: 
  • Provide strong conceptual, creative direction and leadership for internal and external client presentations, prototypes, and potential pitches
  • Conceive and shape experience-oriented design solutions that fulfill strategic business objectives
  • Manage multiple projects from a creative leadership perspective
  • Mentor and lead junior, intermediate, and senior creative staff through critique of their work in order to maintain consistent creative and stellar quality
  • Work closely with other teams (Development, QA, Software Engineering, PM etc.) through project lifecycles to ensure quality and efficiency
Desirable Skills & Experience: 
  • Experience working at the intersection of design, technology, and big data
  • Experience working directly with web and mobile front-end technologies
  • Prior work for software services and consulting companies with a focus on complex data products and/or financial solutions
  • Experience working directly for a financial services and/or personal finance company
Graphic & Visual Design
Industrial Design
Information Design & Architecture
Interaction Design (IxD)
Interface & Navigation Design
Leadership / Managerial
Mobile UX
Requirements & Specifications
Stakeholder/Client Management
Web Front-End / UI

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