As a Lead Experience Designer, you will use your skills to:

• Inspire DV leadership and multi-disciplinary team members with clear communication, hands-on contribution, and strong advocacy for best practices in Experience Design throughout all venture phases

• Leverage ethnographic insights and robust testing techniques to drive design decisions

• Convey team intent with compelling usage of Personas, User-Journeys, and other storytelling frameworks into high-value solutions

• Prototype and test low-to-high fidelity design work

• Lead presentations in highly compelling and engaging manner

• Mentor younger design team members to elevate their craft and professional presence  

• Create style guides, templates, and other accelerant frameworks for the design team members

• Create unique products and culturally-relevant solutions to engage users with valuable experiences

• Consider the moments of engagement, or touch-points, between people and brands, as well as the ideas, emotions and memories these moments create

• Implement a cross-discipline perspective that considers multiple aspects of the brand/business/experience and creates a way for businesses to align with design to solve problems

• Translate strategic design into controls, mechanisms and processes that users require to meet goals

• Communicate the product’s vision to partners and customers to test and explore venture opportunities

• Develop artifacts or images to make opportunities tangible for multiple audiences

• Identify and collect exemplars and articulate their design logic, benefits and tradeoffs

• Participate in visual problem-solving with the Strategic Designers, Venture Architects and Product Managers

• Develop lists of prioritized concepts, wireframes, annotations and UX mapping

• Create design briefs that outline design iterations, prioritized concepts and timelines

• Develop choices around design and user interfaces that allow cross-discipline teams to solve customer pain points and challenges

• Develop initial, low fidelity visual designs for prototypes, as well as information and content strategy that includes graphical representations of quantitative data or other information elements

• Perform wireframe iterations based on feedback from internal reviews and user testing

• Construct quick interactive prototypes that illustrate your UX/UI design: functional with modern effects, animations, and transitions as appropriate, that present a realistic feel of the intended experience

As a Lead Experience Designer, you will need:

• A bachelor’s degree, preferably in interaction design, HCI, or another relevant design field

• Mastery of Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and emergent UX tools

• Expertise in building interactive prototypes to illustrate your own UX & UI design for web sites and mobile apps using modern technologies: from quick prototyping tools such as InVision/Flinto to more detailed prototyping with Origami/Quartz, Xcode, or tools with similar depth

• For Lead Designer: 5+ years of experience in a start-up environment and exposure to cross-discipline teams, preferably having been a startup founder or in a lead/senior hands-on position designing user experience from conception to minimum viable products to large scale launch & adoption

• A background working directly with developers for the implementation of designs

Education Requirements:

• BS or MS in Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Information Science

• BS in Computer Science with emphasis on UX development

• BA in Graphic Design with emphasis on UX design