Sr Director, UX Design

Job Description

About the role : As a Sr Director of Product Design, you will lead a team of Product Designers focused on delivering best user-centred experiences. While collaborating with key engineering and business partners, you will define and drive exceptional user-experience design deliverables across products and initiatives. The Sr Director will lead and manage all aspects of talent development, tactical, strategic design direction, and concepts. This role focuses on tactically providing the best user experience along with leading talents. What you will do : Lead a growing team of Product Designers across different products. Strong experience in user experience and leading those efforts. Instil a culture of learning, research, and Design Thinking across the full end-to-end customer journey. Drive ideas, solutions, and products execution Adopt a solutions-centric mindset and have a user-centric focus on experiences. Nurture a positive, creative, and inclusive atmosphere that encourages collaboration with constructive and respectful feedback. Inspire, motivate, and lead the UX team to create elegant solutions that are coveted by end-users. Evangelize user experience methodologies and best practices. Ability to speak to technical constraints, experimentation, product, brand, business, and strategy connecting across disciplines to cultivate collaboration between teams. What you will need: Overall 12+ years of work experience in a product/ distributed environment out of which 8+ years of experience in the design industry in and around various product design fields (user experience/interaction design, visual design, and research) and 4+ years of experience managing product designers. A bachelor s degree in design, UX/UI design, human-computer interaction, or related field Experience working with cross functional teams & overseas stakeholders. Experience of working relationship with inter-geographic areas. Experience of working on SAAS products & with product companies. Experience designing with accessibility in mind. Experience leading and directing cross-functional and multi-geographic teams. Who are we At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world. Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities. Since our founding in 1979, we ve grown to more than 21,000 associates globally who support ~14,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That s why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here. What makes Gartner a great place to work What do we offer Ready to grow your career with GartnerJoin us. The policy of Gartner is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status and to seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity.