Design Director

Profile

Full Time Job
Design Director, Core News
Responsibilities
At the NBC News Group, we're responsible for the best, most impactful news brands in the industry, including NBC News, MSNBC, Today, and E!. We care passionately about news and our ability to help our customers to get informed and inspired about what's important to them (and us.)
The NBC News Group Product Design team is a diverse group of passionate, hard-working and highly collaborative people. We are looking for a detail-oriented, innovative, thought leader to join our team as our new Design Director, NBC News and we are hoping it might be you.
The Job:
• Lead, coach and mentor a talented team of data-driven, customer-centered product designers to design for interconnected screens, user flows, and prototypes.
• Shape design strategy and vision for NBC News Group Digital partner experiences, multi-tenant design systems and cross-platform UX
• Channel broader NBC News Group design vision, strategy and principles across the portfolio of news brands and products.
• Set cohesive strategy and vision to elevate our digital products and work with cross-functional teams to deliver value for customers and business.
• Innovate and ideate on how to get the work done as well as on the work itself.
• Sets the tone for team communication, managing peer and stakeholder expectations.
• Strong grasp of theories, concepts, and methods of UX research and user-centered design
• Partner with Customer Research and UX Research as necessary, ensure team conducts experiments to discover consumer needs and opportunities. Align resources to execute.
• Model and share frameworks to do design research, synthesis, ideation and facilitation.
• Ensures team's hard skills in design, discovery, and domain expertise are at level.
• Coach and advocate for your team, inspiring and elevating them to their best potential.
• Actively manages direct reports, setting goals and gives follow-up feedback.
• Develops team career planning and growth with individual career plans, reviews, training, 1:1 feedback and assignments.
Qualifications
/Requirements
- 10 years of experience as a product designer with
successful outcomes for digital products, reaching
millions of users, preferably in a media context.
- 7 years of experience as a hiring, managing, and
mentoring successful multiple designers.
- 3 years of design system experience
- Must submit an attestation disclosing your COVID-19 vaccination status and, if partially or fully vaccinated, submitting your vaccination record no later than 7 days following commencement of employment.
- Must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 at the
commencement of employment or adhere to enhanced
protocols if Company determines your job position
requires accessing an NBCUniversal worksite.
- Must be willing to adhere to all Company COVID-19
workplace safety policies and protocols.
Desired Characteristics
- Managed high performing team of in-house designers
who were embedded in Pods, Agile or Scrum teams
- Advocate for design best practices, integrating UX
Research and building meaningful customer
experiences.
- Expert in design research with a dedicated human-
centered approach to problem solving.
- Highly experienced in design thinking and product
discovery.
- Excellent communication and presentation capabilities,
articulating ideas effectively and without bias.
- High energy level and a strong work ethic, someone who
is self-driven.
- Systems-thinker with deep knowledge of cross-platform
design & visual system creation and effective
implementation.
- Digital platform, design system, domain spaces (video,
authentication, e-commerce) and news industry subject
matter expertise.
- Takes an active, participatory role in defining how, what
and why the work we do is approached and executed
(explain the “why”).
- Prioritization and multi-tasking skills
- Comfortable managing design operations.
- Holds the team accountable for high quality product
design and timely cross-functional communication.
- A passion for news.
- Strong opinions, loosely held.
- A sense of humor and gratitude for others.
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