The Economist Group - Lead Product Designer - eCommerce
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Requirements
• You have a strong portfolio that demonstrates your most significant team and personal accomplishments. It will highlight your design process and core craft skills including interaction and visual design across a breadth of platforms and project types. • Experience leading teams to deliver many launched products by working collaboratively with product managers, engineers, stakeholders and users in an agile way. • You can move between focusing on the minute details of a project to the overarching strategic vision, communicating and reacting to required trade-offs and helping your team plan accordingly. • An understanding of technologies used to build world-class digital product experiences. You have experience in agile working and sprints, will be hands-on with user-acceptance testing (UAT) and have a familiarity with the fundamentals of accessibility and usability. • Experience in responsive design across multiple screen sizes and devices; with a well-trained eye for design quality, usability and consistency. • Experience with prototyping and design tools like Miro, Figma or Protopie and can prioritise choosing the right tool at the right time. Experience in AI enabled prototyping tools would be a plus. • Experience working with subscription business models. • Experience in managing and leading a small team of product designers. • You have great communication skills and fluency in English. • If you think you are qualified for this role but don’t necessarily tick every box, please submit an application. The ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. • Working Arrangements • The majority of our roles operate on a hybrid working pattern, with 3+ days office attendance required. • AI usage for your application • We are an innovative organisation that encourages the use of technology. We recognise that candidates may utilise AI tools to support with their job application process. However, it is essential that all information you provide truthfully and accurately reflects your own experience, skills, and qualifications.
Responsibilities
• Work with key partners across the business (from product, engineering, editorial, marketing and data) to achieve shared goals. • Champion research across teams; planning, managing and running user research alongside your team to understand user behaviour and identify needs. • Build a vision for your product area, be an important part of roadmap planning and help to set the strategy for how your designers deliver it. • Create artefacts like sketches, user flows or interactive prototypes to test assumptions and ideas. You will create production ready design assets and work with engineers to ensure a high quality experience is shipped. • Facilitate workshops and/or design sprints that bring stakeholders and others along the product development journey. • Communicate progress and product rationale to key partners including the C-suite, by designing and delivering presentations; or through dialogue on an ad-hoc basis. • Grow and mentor your reports - helping to shape their career paths and raise the bar of design, experience and product thinking. • Contribute and evolve the design culture within the design team.
Benefits
• Our benefits package is designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and work-life balance. It includes a highly competitive pension or 401(k) plan, private health insurance, and 24/7 access to counselling and wellbeing resources through our Employee Assistance Program. • We also offer a range of lifestyle benefits, including our Work From Anywhere program, which allows you to work from any location where you have the legal right to do so for up to 25 days per year. In addition, we provide generous annual and parental leave, as well as dedicated days off for volunteering and even for moving home. • You will also be given free access to all The Economist content, including an online subscription, our range of apps, podcasts and more.
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