UX Design Lead/Design Manager - DHL

Title: UX Design Lead/Design Manager - DHL
Company: Samsung Research America (SRA)
Lab: Digital Health Lab
Location: Mountain View, CA

Lab Summary

Samsung Research America is seeking an experienced, highly motivated individual to join our Digital Health team as a UX Design Lead/Design Manager and be a core part of a passionate team charged with developing, incubating, and launching product concepts that will transform the future of healthcare for everyone.

Digital Health is a multi-disciplinary agile team working on designing and developing innovative digital health services and solutions. The goal is to significantly empower consumers, patients, clinicians, and developers so they can leverage smartphones, wearables, medical devices, and IoTs in the health and wellness domain. Samsung’s unique advantage in the consumer electronics market and growing focus on Digital Health provides exciting technical challenges and rewarding career experience.

Position Summary

You will help define and drive the future of Digital Health by leading the talented design team of interaction designers, visual designers, and motion designers, as well as collaborating with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and clinical researchers in the team. You will be challenged to create innovative experiences by identifying and setting product strategies, envisioning complex UX ecosystems, guiding design processes, and mentoring multi-faceted designers in your team.

You are committed to creating elegantly simple user experiences from otherwise complex workflows esp. in the health & wellness domain.

Requirements

• 10-15 years of experience in UX Design, designing and shipping products to market.
• 2 years of experience in managing or leading design teams.
• A portfolio of relevant design work, executed either by yourself or a team that you led, that demonstrates systems thinking and high-quality design work.
• A user-centered and iterative approach to designing software for people.
• Experience working with researchers, engineers and product managers to drive strategy, vision, and execution.
• Comfortable juggling a wide range of responsibilities at the same time.
• Strong time-management, written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present a strong rationale for design decisions.
• A positive attitude, empathy, open mind, and a desire to collaborate.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, direction, and mentorship for a team of Interaction, Product, Visual and Motion Designers.
• Collaborate with the design team to translate complex problems into simple, elegant and minimal solutions.
• Give feedback in design critiques and coach your team through challenges.
• Lead the design process for your team—from problem definition to design implementation.
• Partner with product, engineering, and research to ensure projects are well-defined, high impact, and successfully executed.
• Consider target audience and design for accessibility and ease of use.
• Maintain cultural awareness of the design landscape with respect to current and future trends.
• Lead creative and holistic thinking across diverse product releases, platforms, and devices.
• Grow the design team by attracting and hiring new talent.