Director Digital Product Design

Job ID: 41760

Location:

Dallas, TX, US, 75254 Atlanta, GA, US Minneapolis, MN, US Miramar, FL, US, 33027

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What You Need To Know

Shape a remarkable future with us. Build a career working for an industry leader that truly invests in their people – and equips them with leading technology, continuous learning, and the ability to bring their best selves to work. As the preeminent wine and spirits distributor, Southern Glazer’s isn't just one of Forbes’ Top Private Companies; it's a family-owned business with deep roots dating back to 1933.

Southern Glazer’s is proud of its well-earned positive reputation, continually achieving accolades for our outstanding workplace culture. We take pride in creating a culture where our people are valued, supported, and provided opportunities for growth and belonging.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a wide-ranging menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition assistance, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

By joining Southern Glazer’s, you would be part of a team that values excellence, innovation, and community. This is more than just a job – it's an opportunity to build the future of beverage distribution and grow with a company that truly cares about its people.

Overview

The Director Digital Product Design will work with one or more product portfolios and report to the VP, Digital Product Design. Within a portfolio, the director has the responsibility to develop design strategies, manage a digital design team, assess design qualify and performance, and lead in the development and presentation of design ideas.

Primary Responsibilities

Develop design strategies:

Lead problem-framing & ideation sessions

Lead design thinking workshops

Create design hypotheses, explore & test

Contribute point-of-view into service blueprints

Lead rapid prototyping efforts for exploratory interactions

Manage a digital design team:

Effectively lead a team of digital designers, giving clear and actionable feedback to team members

Provide motivation and recognition for job performance

Hire and mentor ‘full stack’ digital product designers

Ally and support culture and diversity initiatives within the team, and at the company

Present design ideas:

Lead design reviews with executive-level colleagues

Provide solid rationale for design decisions

Make compelling and persuasive presentation of ideas, concepts, and in-progress design work

Additional Primary Responsibilities

Assess design quality and performance:

Review design work created by direct reports, agencies, and collaborators

Perform generative and evaluative design research

Collaborate with design researchers to continuously learn & iterate design work

Collaborate with product development:

Appropriately inclusive of software development in the design process

Collaborate with software engineering, analytics, and QA teammates to bring ideas to life and products to market

Partner with product management:

Support the OKRs of product portfolios as the design subject matter expert (SME)

Contribute and develop ideas to help the portfolio achieve its business outcomes

Help the portfolio director understand the customer needs through research, interviews, workshops, story mapping, and similar techniques

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years of digital product design experience, inclusive of mobile app design, web design, and design systems

4+ years of design management experience

Familiarity with the full digital product lifecycle, using product roadmaps, story mapping, writing design stories, designing features, direct collaboration with development teams

Experience developing & implementing global design systems, with portfolio examples

Functional knowledge of: Design & prototyping tools (Figma, Protopie, Framer, Canvaa), Design research methods & tools (Ethnography, User Testing, Accessibility Compliance, Moderation), Collaboration tools (Miro, Confluence, Jira), Common UI technology (HTML, CSS, Material Design), Common mobile app frameworks (Flutter, FlutterFlow, React Native, PWA) and Microsoft Office Suite

Preferred Qualifications

Portfolio inclusive of digital project work showing end-to-end experience: from ideation to launch

Articulate about digital product design as a practice, and supportive of agility in design processes

Ability to generate, visualize and prototype new concepts to demonstrate and test with users and stakeholders

UCD certifications

Design Thinking training, workshop facilitation experience

Agile training or certifications, like SAFe Agilist

Industry involvement, active in the local design community

Physical Demands

Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine

Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping

May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

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Nearest Secondary Market: Fort Worth

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