At R/GA, Experience Design (UX) is integral to the creative process and play pivotal roles in the strategy, conception and design of groundbreaking multi-context platforms. We are seeking an Experience Design Director who has experience connecting customers and brands through intuitive interfaces and trans-formative brand experiences. Preference will be given to people who demonstrate a combination of strategic, conceptual and design skills
Responsibilities:
- Lead multi-disciplinary teams in the creation of best-in-class user experience
- Help define business opportunities and translate insights into consumer-facing experiences
- Enable the creation of concept models, user interface sketches, and schematics.
- Provide leadership, training, and mentorship to other Experience Designers
- Coach others and use your skills in research, design, and wireframing to prototype new experiences that will drive value for people, partners and/or businesses
- Oversee multidisciplinary teams to conceptualize, and champion high-quality user centered experience design by creating simple, consistent, contextual and culture relevant experiences
- Facilitate delivery of simultaneous highly visible and challenging projects, providing directional oversight of individual project team's work and assume overall accountability for it
- Lead/facilitate Design Thinking workshops working directly with end users & business partners, clients
- Be a hands-on design expert, shaping concepts and seeing it through to detailed design and implementation across a variety of devices and platforms
Qualifications:
- Several examples of successfully launched projects which demonstrate strategic, conceptual and creative thinking
- Several years of experience in an Experience Design, User Experience or IA role
- A solid understanding and demonstration of user centered design principles
- Demonstrated ability to lead the design of large + complex systems of interactions
- A good understanding of what types of experiences are made possible by current digital technologies
- Able to develop simple and elegant design approaches to complex design problems
- Able to collaborate actively as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- In possession of excellent interpersonal communication skills, analytical and leadership skills
- Must be organized, able to act independently, and able to switch rapidly between different projects in a fast-paced environment
- Can work with grace under pressure
- Demonstrated thought leadership in at least one of the following domains; product design, commerce, mobile, branding, retail, and social media a plus
Experience working in and understanding the Asian market is a big plus.