Director Digital Product Design

Dallas, TX, United States

What You Need To Know Open your future to incredible career potential. Work for an industry-leader who invests in their people. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. We were named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and are included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

At Southern Glazer’s, you’ll enjoy an environment where continuous learning and growth are supported and experience a culture where you are respected, and your voice is heard. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview The Director Digital Product Design will work with one or more product portfolios and report to the VP, Digital Product Design. Within a portfolio, the director has the responsibility to develop design strategies, manage a digital design team, assess design qualify and performance, and lead in the development and presentation of design ideas.

Primary Responsibilities Lead problem-framing & ideation sessions

Lead design thinking workshops

Create design hypotheses, explore & test

Contribute point-of-view into service blueprints

Lead rapid prototyping efforts for exploratory interactions

Effectively lead a team of digital designers, giving clear and actionable feedback to team members

Provide motivation and recognition for job performance

Hire and mentor ‘full stack’ digital product designers

Ally and support culture and diversity initiatives within the team, and at the company

Lead design reviews with executive-level colleagues

Provide solid rationale for design decisions

Make compelling and persuasive presentation of ideas, concepts, and in-progress design work

Review design work created by direct reports, agencies, and collaborators

Perform generative and evaluative design research

Additional Primary Responsibilities Collaborate with design researchers to continuously learn & iterate design work

Appropriately inclusive of software development in the design process

Collaborate with software engineering, analytics, and QA teammates to bring ideas to life and products to market

Support the OKRs of product portfolios as the design subject matter expert (SME)

Contribute and develop ideas to help the portfolio achieve its business outcomes

Help the portfolio director understand the customer needs through research, interviews, workshops, story mapping, and similar techniques

Minimum Qualifications 8+ years of digital product design experience, inclusive of mobile app design, web design, and design systems

4+ years of design management experience

Experience leading design in an agile business environment, with portfolio examples

Familiarity with the full digital product lifecycle, using product roadmaps, story mapping, writing design stories, designing features, direct collaboration with development teams

Experience developing & implementing global design systems, with portfolio examples

Portfolio inclusive of digital project work showing end-to-end experience: from ideation to launch

Functional knowledge of: Design & prototyping tools (Figma, Protopie, Framer, Canvaa), Design research methods & tools (Ethnography, User Testing, Accessibility Compliance, Moderation), Collaboration tools (Miro, Confluence, Jira), Common UI technology (HTML, CSS, Material Design), Common mobile app frameworks (Flutter, FlutterFlow, React Native, PWA) and Microsoft Office Suite

UCD certifications

Agile training or certifications, like SAFe Agilist

Physical Demands Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine

Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping

May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.

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