Mutual Mobile is a world-leading user experience, mobile, and innovation solutions company. We are looking for an accomplished Design Lead to join our team.
Our growing Design Team believes in a strong design culture, including consistent collaboration, continued learning opportunities, and the application of proven design methodologies to deliver great products and experiences for our partners.
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The Role
As daily stewards of design within our projects, our Design Leads bring extensive expertise to continually define a problem space in order to deliver amazing experiences. Design Leads are communication champions, finding ways to clarify and humanize complex projects and partnerships.
We trust our Design Leads to shape the overall user experience and the appropriate application of user research, interaction, and visual design to produce highly-resonant experiences. Leading by designing, Leads guide the overall design approach with confidence–bringing out the best in their managers, peers, and junior team members.
The Responsibilities
- Promote design and design methodologies throughout partnerships, as well as internally with project teams
- Maintain an empathetic view of both users and business partners
- Manage partner experience and expectations related to design delivery
- Lead design project teams
- Lead and participate in various design research and user testing activities
- Collaboratively develop conceptual designs
- Present creative concept models, system views, and discreet design in partner presentations and reviews
- Create and maintain high-level views of the user
- Build prototypes and simulations to illustrate the impact of design recommendations
- Mentor junior designers
- Ensure design standards are upheld during development process
- Participate in regular design team workshops, critiques, and skill-building sessions
- Contribute to POV development and presentations for new business pitches
Your Background
Whether you have a background in visual or interaction design, research, or strategy, you have a history of successful leadership across multiple aspects of design delivery. You are capable, if not a master, of current design and design thinking methodologies and can operationalize teams to create great user-centric product experiences while meeting even the most challenging of business objectives. And, while you thrive on providing thought leadership, you also love getting your hands dirty, leading your craft through exemplary design.
You have...
- 6+ years of UX, interactive, visual, or service design
- 2+ years of leading strategic design offerings for various partners
- Expert-level communication skills
- Extreme comfort in delivering in the face of ambiguity and shifting partner needs
- Experience leading 3+ person design teams as part of broader delivery projects
- Experience working and leading in an agile environment
- Comfort working autonomously under tight deadlines
- Enough technical experience to effectively partner with Engineering Leads
- Knowledge of relevant industry tools and strong POV on when and how to best structure their use for team delivery
**Applicants must provide a web-based portfolio.
Why Mutual Mobile
We make great products. We craft beautiful interfaces and solve complex software challenges. Partners come to us for our decade of deep experience in mobile — from establishing a mobile strategy that provides impactful business value, to building solutions from the ground up. We bring together the brightest minds in design, engineering, and project management to deliver solutions that actually matter.
We have built our success through understanding partner problems, their users’ needs, and building successful experiences to solve for both. This approach has resulted in premier partnerships with Google, GM, Nestle, UnderArmour, and other top tier brands. We continue to evolve - it’s in our DNA - to stay at the forefront of innovation across Android, iOS, Wearables, IoT, and VR/AR.
We stand at the foot of a massive transition in emerging technology with the growth of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Voice, Bots, and more. We are ready to guide our partners through “the next mobile”, helping them lead digital movements of their own within their industries.