Principal User Experience Designer – Espn
| Company | The Walt Disney Company |
|---|---|
| Location | Seattle, WA, USA, San Francisco, CA, USA, Bristol, CT, USA, Glendale, CA, USA, New York, NY, USA |
| Salary | $167700 – $235700 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, or experience in a related field.
- 10+ years of focused practice in product design or a related field.
- Proven experience as a design leader with a track record of driving organizational progress.
- Expertise in design fundamentals, content strategy, and interaction design.
- Strong leadership skills with a focus on delivery, collaboration, and inclusivity.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to advocate for design at various levels.
- Mastery in research, strategy impact, and fostering a culture of inquiry.
- Visionary thinking with the ability to define and communicate a cohesive vision for the product experience.
Responsibilities
- Drive organizational progress as a trusted influencer among Design, Product, and Tech leadership.
- Set industry standards in interface design, constantly raising the bar and contributing to tools and techniques.
- Demonstrate expertise in guiding projects on design and product strategy.
- Drive competitive analysis, problem definition, and articulation of the product vision.
- Lead a large domain, fostering meaningful relationships across functions and codifying best practices.
- Orchestrate shipping strategy for complex projects, ensuring efficiency in design workflows.
- Inspire and elevate designers in interaction design and prototype use.
- Contribute to design systems with technical, business, and interaction design leadership.
- Expertly present to large audiences, focusing on platform design, cross-brand systems thinking, and brand expression.
- Advocate for design as a discipline and represent ‘capital D’ Design as a strategic function.
- Utilize qualitative and quantitative research to affect company strategy.
- Guide landscape analysis, hypothesis development, and user testing, fostering a culture of inquiry.
- Build and document value-driven behaviors, promoting a healthy, value-driven culture.
- Collaborate inclusively, stewarding complex collaborative events and fostering cross-functional culture initiatives.
- Deliver clarity in complex project descriptions, design critiques, and documentation.
- Keep teams informed, seek feedback, deliver bad news with empathy, and mentor communicators for effective communication.
- Advocate for the betterment of design practice and represent Design as a strategic function.
- Play a central role in defining and communicating the vision for the entire product experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proven experience in a senior design leadership role, influencing product strategy and driving organizational impact.