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Associate Director of Design Systems

Lisle, IL 60532

Posted: 10/15/2024 Employment Type: Direct Hire/Perm Job Category: Experience Design Job Number: 621045 Is job remote?: No Country: United States

Job Description

Planet Interactive is seeking an Associate Director of Design Systems to join one of our clients, who is a key player in the commercial vehicle industry. 

Salary: $190,000-$210,000 depending on experience 
Location: 3 days on-site in Lisle, IL 

Associate Director of Design Systems Responsibilities: 
  • Lead and develop UI/UX team of employees and contracted resources, assuring high technical competence and team orientation.
  • Evolve the UI/UX team capabilities to meet enterprise needs as they change over time.
  • Assure the UI/UX design system simplifies user experiences through intuitive and enterprise-consistent components and patterns.
  • Work closely with the Design Ops Lead to create and extend Navistar’s UI/UX design system, its UI components and its reusable UX patterns.
  • Assure the UI/UX design system aligns to the emerging design system wherever possible and practical.
  • Roster an experience design culture and enable user-centered design.
  • Assure that IT and business colleagues effectively apply UI/UX standards, methods and practices with efficiency in their creation and improvement of software.
  • Administratively manage the UI/UX capability within IT, including budgets, capability roadmap, design tools/software, UI/UX repositories, procedures, work instructions, etc.
  • Develop, communicate and implement key Design Ops metrics.
  • Prove and show business outcomes against standard Design Ops KPIs and OKRs.
  • In collaboration with Technology Team Product Owners, staff highly-skilled and competent UI/UX design resources within software development and support teams.
  • Contribute to the company's innovation and growth by driving operational excellence within the design capability.
  • Work with the parent companies IT colleagues unify and align experience design across all parent companies brands.
Associate Director of Design Systems Qualifications: 
  • Deep technical skills and experience in User Experience and User Interface design, including extensive use of modular UI component libraries and UX/UI pattern libraries.
  • Personal experience as a custom and/or mobile software developer that leveraged microservices architectures, CI/CD and other modern software engineering and delivery practices.
  • Experience with several development languages, tools, technology stacks and frameworks, such as React, Java, Javascript, HTML, JQuery, Bootstrap, Apache Struts, Hibernate, C#, .NET, Microsoft IIS, IBM WebSphere, etc.
  • Experience improving user experience of COTS (commercial off the shelf) products via embedded platform configuration capabilities as well as UI overlays that utilize UI design system components.
  • Expert-level understanding of “what good looks like” for UI/UX design processes, standards and procedures.
  • Deep experience in user-centered design practices and methodologies.
  • History of success creating and operationalizing design excellence at scale with a hub-and-spoke guidance and execution model.
  • Highly skilled team leadership with demonstration of professionalism, diplomacy, authenticity and a drive for results. 
  • Strong relationship building and relationship management with all colleagues, where positive and productive interactions are the norm and where the interactions engender trust and goodwill. 
  • Excellent persuasion and collaboration skills, partnering with cross-functional teams and stakeholders such that those stakeholders view him/her as a pleasure to work with. 
  • Ability to envision, describe and gain buy-in from others toward enterprise-level solutions. 
  • Excellent technical writing skills, leading to the efficient authorship and maintenance of companies UI/UX processes, standards and procedures. 
  • Demonstrated success at balancing ideal versus pragmatic design system features. 
  • Proven ability to balance business needs and objectives against UI/UX design best practices.
  • Experience working in a matrixed environment, preferably on an international level.
Associate Director of Design Systems Education and Background Experience (one of the 3):
  • No degree with at least 14 years of information systems/information technology experience and at least 6 years of management experience. 
  • Bachelor’s degree with at least 12 years of information systems/information technology experience and at least 6 years of management experience
  • Master's degree with at least 10 years of information systems/information technology experience and at least 6 years management experience. 
Associate Director of Design Systems Preferred Skills: 
  • Foundational understanding of public cloud services (i.e., technical capabilities applicable to AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP) and how UI components and UX/UI patterns are best leveraged in each cloud ecosystem.

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Planet Interactive and The Planet Group of Companies are equal opportunity employers. It is our practice not to discriminate against any employee or applicant based on any criteria, condition or basis protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect. We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion enable us to better meet our mission and values while serving our clients across the globe. If you have a disability or handicap and would like us to accommodate you in any reasonable way, please inform your recruiter, or contact us, so that we can discuss the appropriate alternatives available.

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