UX Design Director
Job Description
Job title: UX Design Director
Company: Oracle
Job description: We Are:We’re a team of 50+ User Experience professionals at Oracle NetSuite working on the foundational elements of the NetSuite product experience. We’re part of a larger community of 250 Experience Designers, Content Designers, UI and Visual Designers, Researchers, Technical Writers, Videographers, Design Strategists and connected professionals across Oracle NetSuite. We collaborate closely with the central Oracle design group under Hillel Cooperman and Jenny Lam and are leading users and interpreters of – and contributors to – Oracle’s award-winning Redwood design system.What We’re Looking For:The ideal candidate will be a mixture of design system specialist, team builder and manager, and valued and influential partner to teams and senior stakeholders across the business.We’re especially keen to talk to candidates with strong front-end development awareness and plenty of experience working hand-in-hand with engineering on the rollout and ongoing management of design system elements. You will lead the connection between design and front-end development at NetSuite and you’ll be a key member of the leadership group liaising on longer-term design system strategy with the Oracle Redwood team.We look forward to hearing stories of your experiences in similar roles, the good, the bad and the ugly! You will have operational support from the Design Ops and Design Systems Enablement teams, but a strong operational mindset will come in handy alongside your design leadership skills.This is an exciting and challenging role. You’ll get the chance to share your ideas and work with an amazing group of product people across the globe. You’ll contribute to Oracle’s award-winning enterprise design system “Redwood” and help bring our vision to redefine the user experience for business applications at NetSuite to its 37,000 customers.Responsibilities:Who You Are:You love building strong teams and are happiest when you see the team excel…
- You are dedicated to supporting your team members as they navigate the work and their careers. You understand that your number one job is to create an environment where they can be successful.
- You’ve built and led teams, and you’re confident taking on teams you might not have built yourself.
- You’ve managed managers, helping develop their skills and mentoring them as they develop as leaders.
You get totally geeked out about design systems from the pixels to plans…
- You are constantly evolving your understanding of design systems and love being a thought-leader on the subject.
- You know about front-end frameworks, agile development, the art of helping designers and engineers work hand-in-hand, the importance of the developer experience in the successful impact of a design system, and many other things you’ve learned from your experiences working closely with engineering teams.
- You can advise teams on the micro-interactions of an atom and zoom out to see the patterns throughout the product.
- You are data driven and able to show metrics for the quality and uptake of the design system while always striving for improvement.
You lead and encourage teams towards creating robust, useful, usable and evergreen experiences…
- You are ready to take on the design leadership for ensuring we successfully design and deliver the NetSuite flavour of the Redwood design system.
- You think systemically because you know that creating a coherent experience requires it. But you have the judgement to know when the system needs to expand to accommodate the user and the flexibility to support teams who are reaching for an arresting and product-defining moment in the product that makes users ooh and aah.
- You oversee processes to understand needs from teams using the design system elements, across a variety of devices and areas, while weeding out unnecessary complexity.
- You have a balanced focus on both the discovery and delivery of the design system, on longer term strategy and short term tactical operations.
You jump at the chance to apply your passion and experience in human-centered design to solving any challenge…
- You help our team to integrate design thinking and human-centered design methods into our ways of working for extending and adapting a design system.
- You are able to collaborate with and influence your product and engineering partners and other leaders across the product group to become increasingly user-centered in everything we do from strategies to roadmaps and planning.
Finally, you are excited to be part of creating dramatic and impactful change at a company that is committed to becoming an inspiration to others when it comes to user experience design.
- You’re ready to work with the VP of Experience Design and the design leadership team in creating an environment at Oracle NetSuite where designers across the business are fulfilled in their work and powerful in their impact.
- You are passionate about helping organizations understand and leverage design and become ever more user/customer-focused.
- You are a role model for other designers with ambitions to have a seat at the table with other leaders and execs.
- You’re an exceptional collaborator, communicator and servant leader who is seen as a problem-solver.
Qualifications / Skills:
- 15+ years of experience as a design professional
- Experience leading teams of 15+ people
- Experience of managing managers
- Extensive experience working on design systems in close collaboration with engineering teams
- Senior (up to executive level) collaboration/communication skills
- Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in UX/UI Design, Digital Media Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or another design field
- Experience working with Agile development methodologies in a large enterprise setting
- B2B enterprise software spanning user-types, industries and devices will give you a good head start
- ERP software design experience is a (major) plus
- Flexibility to work with geographically distributed teams – we have product hubs in Brno (Czechia), Barcelona, Redwood Shores (California), Austin (Texas), Waterloo (Canada) and many more locations. You will report to the VP of Experience Design who is based in London
- Home-based work is an option but for this role we do ask that you are based within regular (weekly) office-visit range of our offices in either Barcelona or London.
Does this sound like you? If so, we hope to meet you.About Us:As a world leader in cloud solutions, Oracle uses tomorrow’s technology to tackle today’s problems. True innovation starts with diverse perspectives and various abilities and backgrounds.When everyone’s voice is heard, we’re inspired to go beyond what’s been done before. It’s why we’re committed to expanding our inclusive workforce that promotes diverse insights and perspectives.We’ve partnered with industry-leaders in almost every sector—and continue to thrive after 40+ years of change by operating with integrity.Oracle careers open the door to global opportunities where work-life balance flourishes. We offer a highly competitive suite of employee benefits designed on the principles of parity and consistency. We put our people first with flexible medical, life insurance and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by calling +1 888 404 2494, option one.Disclaimer:Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer*. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.
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Location: London
