Principal Design Manager

Responsibilities

• Have a portfolio demonstrating your design leadership philosophies, approaches, and team building highlights, in addition to end-to-end delivery of content-related products.
• Can inspire, grow, and lead teams of designers at all levels of experience and skill sets. Have a demonstrated ability to hire and mature teams and build culture.
• Can define crisp product design direction for your areas, and collaborate with partner design, research, product management, marketing and engineering teams around the company and globe, leveraging partnerships for diverse perspective on our products. (10-25% travel)
• Work proactively through the ambiguity of new product definition, the application of new and emerging technologies and ensure the resulting experiences are human, beautifully crafted, and delightful to customers.
• Lead by example with clean, focused, and inspiring work, designing through all phases of the product cycle. Conceptualize and design original ideas that bring simplicity and ease of use to complex design issues.
• Provide Principal-level thought leadership and storytelling skills with the ability to compose highly polished design prototypes, vision vignettes, framing memos, creative briefs, and other communication artifacts to express inspiring product vision. Have foundational understanding of AI platform and models.
• Scope and estimate efforts accurately and prioritize tasks and goals with your team and partner teams. Have proficiency in a variety of design & productivity tools: chiefly Figma, as well as Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, etc. Have experience in inclusive design and accessibility.
• Contribute to broaden design team creative processes, team building, and our strong cultural values around diversity, inclusion, transparency, and growth mindset.
• Drive for excellence while never losing sight of the human side of the equation and what it means to be a great leader and partner.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND Extensive years experience working in product or service design
  • OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND Extensive years experience working in product or service design
  • OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems).
• 3+ years people management experience.

• Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 12+ years experience working in product or service design
  • OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND Extensive years experience working in product or service design
  • OR equivalent experience (e.g., experience using design thinking to solve problems).
• Extensive years experience shipping games or products and/or delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process.
• Extensive years people management experience.

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