Job Description
Who we are
We're a global team of over 35 User Experience professionals at Oracle NetSuite, dedicated to enhancing the NetSuite product experience in various areas. We're part of a larger community of 250 Experience Designers, Content Designers, UI and Visual Designers, Researchers, Technical Writers, Videographers, Design Strategists, and other connected professionals across Oracle NetSuite.
- We're continuously improving our experiences through customer research and testing.
- We work efficiently, but also allocate time for innovation, brainstorming, and exploration.
- We believe highly energetic teams often generate the best solutions.
- We integrate experience design with product management and engineering throughout the entire process.
- We aim to delight our customers by designing and executing next-generation solutions that focus on insight, control, automation, and agility.
- We strongly value diversity and actively seek opportunities to enhance our team's diversity.
The scope of our opportunity is endless!
We need thoughtful, multi-faceted design leaders who understand what makes great products and can guide teams towards this vision.
Your profile
We’re looking for a Manager of Experience Design to join our Product and Services Group. You should be experienced in leading design teams; someone who wants to continue to grow in the field of B2B enterprise software spanning different user-types, industries, and markets.
We're seeking a highly collaborative and experienced designer who can lead, inspire, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. Proven experience in creating designs, working with user researchers, and finalizing results with product managers, engineers, and multiple stakeholders is essential.
Your profile should include a fundamental trifecta: product design oversight, people management, and stakeholder impact. You should be highly adaptive and ready to facilitate, inspire, or lead, no matter the project or people. While not expected to produce design artifacts, you should be fluent in modern software design language.
In addition to being a hands-on collaborative leader, you should have the following attributes:
- A strong balance of design strategy and analysis.
- Understanding that great design includes delivery and the importance of shipping.
- Ability to lead and mentor team members while maintaining an equal and collaborative work environment.
- Ability to structure and scale teams against priorities and future expansion needs.
- Advocacy for and practice of Design Thinking.
- A keen eye for designing for simplicity and the ability to instill it.
- Low-ego relationship building skills.
- Excellent storytelling and communication skills.
- Passion for innovating products, processes, and technology with the goal of delivering an extraordinary user experience.
- Technical UX expertise to serve as the senior point of contact for UX implementation issues.
The Role
You will be a key member of the Products and Services team, an integral part of the Oracle NetSuite business solution. This group provides solutions to various aspects of our customers' businesses, including Defining, Producing, Managing and Delivering products and services. You will collaborate with all disciplines to achieve shared goals and optimize plans and strategies to design the best possible experience.
What You Will Be Doing:
- Lead a distributed team of designers, while being part of the larger global User Experience team.
- Provide guidance on design and research process, feedback and support, and career development.
- Manage the hiring process for sourcing, acquiring, and onboarding new employees.
- Propose, plan, execute, and deliver design and user research at various stages of the development lifecycle.
- Manage and prioritize multiple projects of varying timelines, degrees of complexity and scope, as well as help with projects and priorities for a team.
- Produce high-quality design deliverables that communicate design solutions and facilitate discussion.
- Presentation of design alternatives and effectively communicate rationale and trade-offs.
- Demonstrate a passion for iteration and eager to receive feedback.
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects of varying timelines, degrees of complexity and scope, as well as help with projects and priorities for a team.
Qualifications/Skills:
- Background in Product/Industrial Design, Human Factors, Human Computer Interaction or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Minimum 7-9 years working in the field of UX/UI design.
- Minimum 1 year experience in leading a design team.
- Experience in working on highly strategic and complex iniatives.
- Experience working with remote team members and employees.
- Experience planning and executing different types of research with customers.
- Strong leadership qualities that enable you to lead cross-functional teams and third-party partners when needed.
- Strong sense of independence, ownership, and initiative. Ability to self-direct and manage what to work on, how to get it done, and when to deliver
- Excellent organization skills and the ability to manage multiple high-profile projects in a fast-paced organization.
- Online portfolio demonstrating experience producing sketches, wireframes, mock-ups, prototypes, task-flows, and other design deliverables.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Strong analytical and presentation skills.
- Agile Development experience a plus.
Next Step?
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Career Level - M2
Responsibilities
As a manager of the software engineering division, you will apply your knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to provided design specifications. Build enhancements within an existing software architecture and occasionally suggest improvements to the architecture.
About Us
As a world leader in cloud solutions, Oracle uses tomorrow’s technology to tackle today’s problems. True innovation starts with diverse perspectives and various abilities and backgrounds.
When everyone’s voice is heard, we’re inspired to go beyond what’s been done before. It’s why we’re committed to expanding our inclusive workforce that promotes diverse insights and perspectives.
We’ve partnered with industry-leaders in almost every sector—and continue to thrive after 40+ years of change by operating with integrity.
Oracle careers open the door to global opportunities where work-life balance flourishes. We offer a highly competitive suite of employee benefits designed on the principles of parity and consistency. We put our people first with flexible medical, life insurance and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.
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Disclaimer:
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