Job Description

Our client is looking for a UX Design Creative Director who is driven by the desire to build and manage a group of user experience designers, and elevate the team and its work to the next level.

Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Direct all user experience design activity, and manage design staff
• Build and facilitate relationships with product, engineering, and brand and marketing teams globally to create innovative user experiences
• Oversee user and market research to understand the needs and desires of our target audience
• Work with our client's customers and partners to align design strategies
• Critique design concepts and review design documentation to provide creative direction to the UX team
• Direct the design, building, and testing of interactive prototypes to iterate and evolve design concepts
• Oversee collaboration with related teams and secure agreement on process, schedule, and deliverables for all team members
• Present and evangelize design vision, priorities, and strategy to engineering, planning, and marketing teams
• Present our client's design vision and strategy to customers and partners

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills And Abilities)

• Bachelor’s or Graduate degree in Interaction Design, Graphic Design, HCI, or relevant field (or comparable experience)
• 12-15 years of interaction design experience
• 5+ years of managing design teams
• Experience shipping multiple products from concept to creation
• Experience working with and influencing a multi-disciplinary team of UX designers/researchers, planners, engineers, business development, product planning, marketing, and sales
• Experience providing company design leadership (scope and vision)
• Experience in designing both hardware and software user experiences.
• Strong leadership skills; the ability to identify, hire, develop, and retain the most talented people while inspiring them to peak performance
• Ability to inspire confidence and trust with internal partners; strong collaborator
• A portfolio highlighting multiple projects and demonstrating an end-to-end design process
• Proficiency in Figma and Adobe CC suite of products

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills And Abilities)

• Experience designing for VR/AR/XR or other spatial experiences
• 3D software experience – Unity, C4D, Blender, Maya, or similar
• UX and Interaction Design experience beyond conventional 2D web and mobile applications

Who You Are

• You’re curious, driven, and passionate about innovating and pushing the limits of new and emerging technologies
• You are user-focused – you know how and when to ask the right questions to fully understand and empathize with users’ problems before diving into design solutions
• You can balance an appropriate mix of the ideal and pragmatic in your design work
• You’re excited to tackle ambiguity head-on and have the experience and toolset to deliver innovative solutions to unfamiliar challenges
• Your passion for UX and visual design inspires others and will contribute to shaping and growing the VIVE Creative Labs design studio culture
• You can internalize feedback and build on alternative perspectives to iterate on and improve your design solutions
• You can focus on near-term needs without losing sight of long-term goals
• You are comfortable and capable of contributing at every stage of the design process

Working Conditions

• Primary work location is indoors
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working at a computer
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and long periods of detailed work with VR equipment
• Ability to travel up to 15% of the time
• The employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Our client is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to thier employees and their families. The successful applicant for this role will be eligible for health, vision, dental insurance, 401k matching, and other employee benefits as the company implements.

Comp: $174,000 - $225,000 per year