Design Manager

Company: Aurora
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: January 15, 2022

Job Description:

Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all. We're searching for a Design Manager. In this role, you will * Lead a design team to help define product vision and executions. * Happy to be hands on with creating necessary artifacts to support the program and team. * Someone who can lead the team by showing great examples of design practices and help solve complex interaction problems. * Responsible for end-to-end direction of product experiences, from defining complex user-stories, wire-frames and prototyping to visual design with accountability to results. * Package creative concepts and present to internal stakeholders in persuasive, articulate and compelling ways. * Help guide the design team develop IA frameworks that aligns to complex taxonomies, create the foundation for a systematic design thinking to help build and define holistic customer experience across all website properties of Aurora. * Collaborate with analytics and testing team on iterative tests to improve and optimize key metrics. * Collaborate with product managers, program managers, engineering leads and design engineers to help define requirements for product development. Required Qualifications * 5+ years managing design teams in the development of software and optionally hardware products and leading design teams and the ability to build, mentor and motivate teams. * Experience working on complex interactive systems or products. Desirable Qualifications * A portfolio showing your high quality, thoughtful UI and UX work. * 10+ years digital design and UX/IA experience for a large / complex websites with multiple KPIs. * 10+ years in product design field with outstanding core design skills and visionary mindset. * Strong background and knowledge working with a wide range of UI Design, Visual Design, UX Research in a highly technical environment or complex product suite, demonstrated through a comprehensive portfolio of successful consumer products. * Excitement for building team culture, hiring and promoting design education within the greater organization. Ability to lead teams through vision, planning and talent management. * Experience working with leadership to identify key business opportunities and IP. * Ability to context switch between major focus areas within an organization. * Ability to create and share a vision with stakeholders and the public. * Ability to travel 25% of time (post COVID). #LI-SP1 #Mid-Senior

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