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Manager, Design
Posted 12 days agoViewed
💎 Seniority level: Manager, 2+ years
💸 Salary: 138150.0 - 153750.0 USD per year
🏢 Company: NPR👥 501-1000💰 $4,700,000 Grant almost 5 years ago🫂 Last layoff about 2 years agoDigital MediaNewsBroadcasting
⏳ Experience: 2+ years
Requirements:
- Proven track record of leading design strategies and shipping digital products and services that meet both user and business needs.
- 2+ years leading or managing a team or project, including skills in talent development, coaching, mentoring, objective setting and team motivation.
- Experience designing across multiple platforms (desktop, mobile, connected devices) and contexts, including both user-facing and internal tools.
- Strong proficiency in design thinking and agile project methodologies, with the ability to integrate these approaches into daily workflows.
- Versatility in prototyping techniques, from low to high fidelity, adapting methods based on project needs and timelines.
- Deep curiosity for user behavior and emerging technologies, with a focus on how they influence design and user interaction.
- Solid understanding of technology frameworks that power digital products, such as APIs, web and mobile platforms, content management systems, and Google Analytics for data-driven insights and decision-making.
- Experience using analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics) to track user behavior, assess product performance, and inform design iterations.
- A passion for storytelling and presenting design strategies clearly and persuasively to both internal teams and external stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Define and implement a design strategy that aligns with business goals, ensuring that design plays a key role in product and service development.
- Utilize analytics and user feedback to measure the impact of design decisions and iterate on design strategies to optimize performance.
- Leads and mentors a team of Product Designers and Design Technologists - preparing regular performance reviews, and making effective recommendations regarding any hiring, promotion, and discipline for these positions
- Partner with product management, engineering, marketing, research, and executive teams to align design initiatives with broader business objectives.
- Ensure that all design decisions are informed by user research, data, and user-centered design methodologies.
- Articulate design strategy and the value of design to partners and stakeholders, ensuring buy-in and alignment at all levels of the organization.
- Act as a point of contact for facilitation, workshops, and design services ensuring that ICs across the design team have what they need to help our colleagues across the organization participate in design.
- Collaborate with cross-division managers and individual contributors to improve design processes, tools, and infrastructure to enhance team productivity and collaboration.
- Encourage experimentation and innovation within the design team, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible while staying aligned with user needs and business priorities.
- Provide leadership, mentorship, and support to the design team, helping to elevate their skills and align their work with strategic goals.
- Identify opportunities for refining the design process, adopting new tools, and staying ahead of industry trends to maintain a competitive edge.
- Communicate the value of design and evangelize our work within NPR, throughout the Member station network, and the global design community.
- Personally work on the entire lifecycle of specific products, as needed: research, prototyping, design, and collaboration on implementation and iteration.
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