
Sr. Manager, Product Design - Shopping Experience
- Alberta Nouvelle-Écosse
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
- You bring exceptional clarity and vision to identifying opportunities and framing problems.
- You are a leader who loves to engage directly in the design and craft work as much as you like developing and growing talent capabilities on your team.
- You have a remarkable ability to set and evolve the vision of a product experience through your strategic storytelling, problem driven frameworks, insight gathering, eye for visual design languages and interactive design craft.
- You have set new standards around design in your previous work and can demonstrate major shifts in quality, capabilities and perspective from your team.
- Deep understanding for how to motivate design work through explorations, concept development, and creative directions that draft off a core brand design system.
- Operationally effective at structuring and managing existing roadmaps and future horizon planning with comfort in adjusting to pivots or new opportunities that might influence a defined plan.
- You are an expert at setting up rituals and rhythms for a design team - ones that drive a nurturing culture for growth and for ensuring razor sharp clarity of focus and priority.
- You lead with clarity and vision, and you can motivate others to deliver excellent results while keeping them fulfilled and growing in their craft.
- Reliable self-starter who can provide direction to teams and designers at a 40,000 ft. level and at a pixel-level (whichever is most needed in the moment)
- Track record of influencing product and engineering functions to keep user problems top-of-mind and invest in holistic, future-friendly solutions
- 10+ years of experience in consumer facing digital product design work - ideally with brand-driven, retail or commerce products.
- 4+ years of managing multi-discipline teams of 5 or more.
- You foster collaboration, growth, and inclusivity within your team, empowering designers to contribute their best work toward a shared vision.
- You love to study and design for consumer behaviors with a specific interest in consumerism, retail, nutrition, food and evolving cultural norms.
- You believe in the power of brand, a well-articulated point of view, and the necessity of driving measurable business outcomes.
- A deep love and bias for designing products that blend interaction design with brand identity, visual design language and content design.
- All designers and leaders are as sensitive to visual design as they are to system and interaction functionality.