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Horizontal Talent · 5 days ago
Design Manager
Minneapolis, MN
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
8+ years exp
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Hiring Manager
Kaitlin Enriquez
Insider Connection @Horizontal Talent
Responsibilities
Motivate, inspire, and organize a team of 5-8 designers and researchers to deliver goals for the portfolio of products.
Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Business owners to prioritize work and identify high-impact opportunities.
Make tradeoff and prioritization decisions on allocating team members to meet portfolio goals.
Build trust and establish long-term relationships through excellent communication and persuasion skills.
Focus and reprioritize design efforts based on impact and success metrics of products.
Drive change within the organization by collaborating with cross-functional peers.
Oversee talent management activities including recruiting, hiring, and professional development.
Develop processes and approaches for tackling design problems and work with design systems and agile practices.
Qualification
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Required
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Interaction Design, UI/UX Design, Web Product Design, Web Development or any combination of education and experience which would provide an equivalent background
8+ years of experience in a related field, with at least 5 years of experience in user experience, interaction design, product design and research in a product development team required and with at least 3 years with managerial experience.
Experience within financial services, specifically around Advisor experience
Proven experience in navigating and collaborating with different areas of the enterprise, including Engineering, Product and Business owners, to help prioritize work and identify high impact opportunities for the experience
Ability to motivate, inspire and organize a team of 5-8 designers and researcher to deliver goals outlined for the portfolio of products the manager oversees.
Manage a team like a business owner making tradeoff and prioritization decisions around how to allocate team members (skill sets and quantity) to meet the goals of the portfolio and products within.
Excellent communication and persuasion skills, with the ability to build trust and establish long-term relationships.
Understanding of impact and success metrics for any given product to focus and reprioritize design efforts to ensure the greatest impact possible.
Ability to collaborate with cross-functional peers and drive change within the organization.
Experience in talent management; including experience in recruiting, hiring, and professional development.
Strategic mindset with the ability to develop processes and approaches for tackling design problems.
Experience working with design systems and agile practices within a product team model.
Preferred
Strategic design thinking and the ability to contribute to the overall design strategy of the organization.
Knowledge and experience working in financial services, ideally wealth management.
Company
Horizontal Talent
Horizontal Talent provides staffing services for IT, digital marketing, and strategic markets.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
J
Jeremy Langevin
Co-Founder and CEO
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