Senior Design Consultant / Design Lead

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides hands-on mentoring and leadership to User Researchers,BehavioralScience experts, Interaction Designers and Visual Designers through the entire design process from the best research / strategy methods, tools, approaches that are best suited for a client / project.
• Ensures the design teams are delivering world-class deliverables and outcomes to the internal and external stakeholders.
• Provides day-to-day leadership for projects, ensuring that all internal and external stakeholders are aligned to the HCD goals,activitiesand deliverables from the design team.
• Close collaboration with counterparts in other functions / teams, ensuring tight integration between Design and their respective workstreams in the best way that delivers on the client s / stakeholder s needs.
• Grow thedesign presenceacross practices and capabilities.
• Thought leadership internally within Fractal and in the external communities around the coming together of AI, Engineering and Design (and related topics).
• Attraction,engagementand retention of talented team of Design ResearchersStrategists,UX/ UIDesigners and Visual Designerswho can continuously improve and transform the way we apply design to AI in an enterprise world.
• Shape and refine the culture of theExperienceteam; its rituals, practices, personality,valuesand norms.

Werelooking for someone who:

• Has8-10years experienceas a design practitioner with at least2-3yearsin leading projects and design teams.
• Must have demonstrable portfolio of work that reflects the breadth depth of skills as a Design ResearcherOR as inInteraction / User Experience Design.
• Mayhave started their career in research strategy, or in interaction / information design, but have graduated to leading projects end to endfor the last 2-3 years at least.
• Has real-world experience in managing projects design teams and stakeholders (clients/customers)
• Exposure and experience working with international clients / geographies will be a plus
• Experience in consulting will be a big plus
• Excited about the challenge ofscalingaDesigncapability (within an established organization)
• Understanding of how design fits into the larger data and AI ecosystem that Fractal enables