Director, UX Design
User Experience Design is at the heart of Audible's goal to be customer obsessed.
The UX team works ceaselessly to transform deep customer insights into delightful and innovative product experiences that drive business results and customer satisfaction.
We are searching for a passionate and experienced UX leader who can use their design expertise and strong leadership skills to ensure that Audible continues to lead through product innovation.
This position is a focused investment in Audible's Design System to deliver a distinctive and own-able experience across platforms.
You will lead a team to optimize existing components, partner on strategic initiatives to deliver new components, define the visual language and optimize the UX organizations workflow by leveraging the design system to enable teams to focus on solving the right problems and deliver higher fidelity concepts, faster.
ABOUT YOUBuild high-functioning UX teamsLeading design teams is your passion.
You bring the same curiosity and focus you have for understanding customers and building product to the craft of developing high-performance teams.
You create a learning environment where designers are encouraged to grow and expand their skills, techniques, and tools, and to embrace failure as fuel for creative problem-solving safely.
You continuously help teams become more capable of solving complex problems and delivering thoughtful solutions.
Deliver high-quality productsYou guide your teams through the process of transforming customer knowledge into compelling product features and services.
You thoughtfully define problem spaces enabling the team to solve critical customer and business challenges.
Your in-depth understanding of human-centered design methods, design thinking techniques, and tools allow you to coach teams through the process of planning, navigating tradeoffs, and creating meaningful customer experiences.
Deepen customer knowledgeYou hold a fundamental belief that understanding customer needs creates the opportunity for product innovation and drives business outcomes.
You do not assume that you understand customer needs; instead, you ensure that the team is continuously validating their assumptions with customers, staying connected to customer sentiment and satisfaction, and ensuring that the customer is present in every design choice.
Champion designYou advocate for the purpose and value of design thinking and user research in the product design process across the organization.
You help others understand how design delivers business results by creating innovative and meaningful product experiences for our customers.
You seek to demystify UX processes, methods, and activities to increase the impact of the UX practice.
You ensure your teams are well equipped and empowered to achieve their best results.
The trust you earn by helping others achieve their goals enables you to push the boundaries of design across the organization.
A day in the life of a Director, User Experience Design at Audible Manage multiple UX project teams that collaborate with cross-functional partners from product, insights & analytics, engineering, customer service, marketing, and QA.
Working with partners, you seek to understand and define the problem space, clarify goals, and refine requirements, from the perspective of the customer.
Working with your UX team, you shape and influence the UX approach and proposed solutions, maintaining alignment with UX and business strategies.
Transform project requirements, business goals, customer needs, and technical constraints into a crisp set of problems to solve and goals to achieve.
Enable managers and teams to craft clear, well-estimated plans; determining what activities, deliverables, and iterations are needed to produce the best quality design in the appropriate timeframe.
Monitor team progress, efficiency, velocity, and goals alignment.
Engage in regular project reviews and critiques to ensure that solutions are of high quality and aligned with UX strategy and standards.
Diagnose, triage, and solve issues quickly to reduce project risk.
Contribute and support service-wide User Experience Strategy and Design System standards driving product coherence and continuity.
Collaborate with UX leaders to design, develop, and iterate internal UX processes, toolsets, and methods that enable the UX practice to become more efficient and influential.
Develop and grow business relationships across the organization that increase transparency, understanding, and awareness of UX to promote collaboration, strong partnerships, advocacy, and support the UX practice has with external teams.
Build trust with design teams through clear, constructive, and consistent communication, as well as continued investment in their careers and success.
Continuously assess the skillsets and goals of individuals, to match them with the skills required for the work, creating the conditions for individual growth and project for success.
Participate in the hiring of peers and team members to enhance the UX practice's capabilities and continuing to raise the bar of talent.
Assess and screen candidates for skill and organizational fit.
Foster a team culture that is attractive to a diverse range of high-performing candidates.
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Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
The UX team works ceaselessly to transform deep customer insights into delightful and innovative product experiences that drive business results and customer satisfaction.
We are searching for a passionate and experienced UX leader who can use their design expertise and strong leadership skills to ensure that Audible continues to lead through product innovation.
This position is a focused investment in Audible's Design System to deliver a distinctive and own-able experience across platforms.
You will lead a team to optimize existing components, partner on strategic initiatives to deliver new components, define the visual language and optimize the UX organizations workflow by leveraging the design system to enable teams to focus on solving the right problems and deliver higher fidelity concepts, faster.
ABOUT YOUBuild high-functioning UX teamsLeading design teams is your passion.
You bring the same curiosity and focus you have for understanding customers and building product to the craft of developing high-performance teams.
You create a learning environment where designers are encouraged to grow and expand their skills, techniques, and tools, and to embrace failure as fuel for creative problem-solving safely.
You continuously help teams become more capable of solving complex problems and delivering thoughtful solutions.
Deliver high-quality productsYou guide your teams through the process of transforming customer knowledge into compelling product features and services.
You thoughtfully define problem spaces enabling the team to solve critical customer and business challenges.
Your in-depth understanding of human-centered design methods, design thinking techniques, and tools allow you to coach teams through the process of planning, navigating tradeoffs, and creating meaningful customer experiences.
Deepen customer knowledgeYou hold a fundamental belief that understanding customer needs creates the opportunity for product innovation and drives business outcomes.
You do not assume that you understand customer needs; instead, you ensure that the team is continuously validating their assumptions with customers, staying connected to customer sentiment and satisfaction, and ensuring that the customer is present in every design choice.
Champion designYou advocate for the purpose and value of design thinking and user research in the product design process across the organization.
You help others understand how design delivers business results by creating innovative and meaningful product experiences for our customers.
You seek to demystify UX processes, methods, and activities to increase the impact of the UX practice.
You ensure your teams are well equipped and empowered to achieve their best results.
The trust you earn by helping others achieve their goals enables you to push the boundaries of design across the organization.
A day in the life of a Director, User Experience Design at Audible Manage multiple UX project teams that collaborate with cross-functional partners from product, insights & analytics, engineering, customer service, marketing, and QA.
Working with partners, you seek to understand and define the problem space, clarify goals, and refine requirements, from the perspective of the customer.
Working with your UX team, you shape and influence the UX approach and proposed solutions, maintaining alignment with UX and business strategies.
Transform project requirements, business goals, customer needs, and technical constraints into a crisp set of problems to solve and goals to achieve.
Enable managers and teams to craft clear, well-estimated plans; determining what activities, deliverables, and iterations are needed to produce the best quality design in the appropriate timeframe.
Monitor team progress, efficiency, velocity, and goals alignment.
Engage in regular project reviews and critiques to ensure that solutions are of high quality and aligned with UX strategy and standards.
Diagnose, triage, and solve issues quickly to reduce project risk.
Contribute and support service-wide User Experience Strategy and Design System standards driving product coherence and continuity.
Collaborate with UX leaders to design, develop, and iterate internal UX processes, toolsets, and methods that enable the UX practice to become more efficient and influential.
Develop and grow business relationships across the organization that increase transparency, understanding, and awareness of UX to promote collaboration, strong partnerships, advocacy, and support the UX practice has with external teams.
Build trust with design teams through clear, constructive, and consistent communication, as well as continued investment in their careers and success.
Continuously assess the skillsets and goals of individuals, to match them with the skills required for the work, creating the conditions for individual growth and project for success.
Participate in the hiring of peers and team members to enhance the UX practice's capabilities and continuing to raise the bar of talent.
Assess and screen candidates for skill and organizational fit.
Foster a team culture that is attractive to a diverse range of high-performing candidates.
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Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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