Manager, Experience Design Job in Hannover, Germany

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Manager, Experience Design Job Description

The Experience Design Manager is part of the Automotive leadership team and will collaborate with leaders from Engineering and Product Management to create user-centred designs that meet business needs and customer goals.  In this position, you will be expected to work collaboratively and independently, locally and globally, to complete business tasks and manage project assignments.  The Experience Design Manager has a strong background in user experience design, leadership, and contributing to product strategy.  This is a great opportunity to lead and grow a talented team in our Hannover, Germany office.
 
Job Title: Manager, Experience Design
Location: Hannover, Germany
 
Responsibilities

• Manages a team of UX Designers and creates a vision for the team
• Collaborates with other functional team leaders on process, prioritization, and goals
• Drives research, design and analytics as core components of the product development process
• Includes user-centred design methods in all phases of the product development process
• Evaluates the technical feasibility of alternate design approaches, considering the cost of implementation and the anticipated value to customers
• Analyses customer feedback from multiple data sources to discover opportunities to improve the overall user experience
• Organizes and facilitates meetings with external customers and internal stakeholders to investigate and identify customer needs, preferences and priorities
• Drives customer feedback throughout the design process and product lifecycle
• Works collaboratively with visual design and research team leads to plan and execute on projects
• Prepares and effectively communicates product and experience visions to product and experience leadership teams

Manager, Experience Design Job Requirements

Key Competencies
 
Leadership.  Creates and translates vision into specific functional or departmental initiatives and tasks.  Inspires commitment, high energy and a positive attitude from the team.  Sets and communicates challenging team goals. Delegates, coordinates, and creates a motivational environment for the team to effectively meet their deliverables and achieve results.  Partners with cross-functional team to understand matrixed dependencies in schedules and deliverable expectations.
 
Organizational Savvy.   Able to predict impacts, avoid derailments and pursue actions that are likely to succeed.  Share information to gain common commitment and understanding in achieving objectives.  Can compare and contrast own company's 'how to get things done' to other organizations.  Can identify key players and potential actions for high-impact, sensitive situations or issues.
 
Meeting Facilitation.  Set the agenda and communicate expected outcomes for team meetings.  Drive meetings to action and follow up on closure.  Leverage design thinking as a form of facilitation as appropriate.
 
Team Management and Team Building.  Experienced with leading and managing a variety of teams.  Discusses alternative techniques for maintaining enthusiasm, energy and focus.  Communicates verbally and in writing within team and across and up the organization to appropriate stakeholders.  Ensures that team is energized, unified, and moving towards a common goal.
 
Communication.   Effectively communicates with staff, with peers across the department, with peers outside of product group and to senior leadership.  Is able to break down complex concepts into easy, understandable terms and effectively communicate appropriate to audience.
Staff and Career Development.  Develop people in line with strategic organizational and departmental objectives.  Nurture your team members in a way that enriches their professional priorities.  Anticipate the changing demands for skills; selects the best people for the future.  Design processes for development of critical skill areas.  Hire new talent as required.
Global Engineering Team.  Work with engineering teams throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia.  Work effectively in communicating across time zones.
Requirements

• Experience driving and articulating a design vision
• Good experience mentoring team members or managing a team
• Strong experience in user experience design or related field
• Experience presenting design goals, process, and vision to executive stakeholders
• Bachelors or equivalent work experience; Masters preferred
• Experience implementing personalization and dynamic user experiences
• Experience driving projects end to end as a project manager or program manager a plus
• Ability to work in agile and fast-moving design environment
• Experienced in using user-centred design practices
• Experience creating high-level user experience flows as well as detailed wireframes
• Strong written, presentation and verbal communication skills.  Must have the professional polish and poise to communicate at a level appropriate to the audience (customers, staff, peers and senior management)
• Excellent facilitation, negotiation and consensus building abilities

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