UX & Design Lead - Associate Director

Key Responsibilities

• Acts as an advocate for Global Digital Experience across the business and maintain strong relationships to help educate and identify/shape future project demand
• Act as the UX&D lead of the Digital Experience Studios
• Work closely with the GDS team and be an advocate in-country to ensure correct and latest standards used
• Addressing UXD issues collaboratively and work to resolve in an agile way of working
• Champion the standards and help educate the business of their benefits in your region
• Overall responsibility for the design and UX output in Dalian
• Develop key relationships with technology to ensure the correct implementation of our work into code.
• Help build and develop the Digital Experience team in Dalian and their perception in the business
• Act as line manager for Digital Experience Team
• Work with key stakeholders to help Head of Digital Experience Studio evidence value and benefit of the Studio and evidence the efficiency delivered by the team.
• Work closely to support the SimDigital efficiency programme

Experience and Qualifications Required

• 8+ years in a Design or UX role where you have had team management responsivities
• Experience of working harmoniously with technology, marketing, and business teams to align around creating and implementing digital standards.
• Strong prototyping and design skills using industry-standard tools, Le
• Experience in working with design systems at a global level and scalable by example.
• Be fluent in the native language of the job location
• Established track record in similar capacity / industry / coverage with demonstrable experience
• Significant experience in deploying digital best practices for digital-based solutions, continuous optimization within a mid-large organization
• Proven experience of building team dynamics to deliver outcomes through a structured approach. Capable of coaching and mentoring team members to shape performance improvement outcomes while building individual and team capability
• Experience of delivering capability building and training to business stakeholders at all levels: awareness, tools & techniques, technical subject matter, leader, case studies, etc.
• Excellent stakeholder and influencing skills, including communication, negotiation of deadlines and requirements, management of expectation, recommendations, quality of outputs, etc.
• Demonstrable experience of working to conceptual briefs provided by internal or external stakeholders and clients
• Relationship management experience, particularly regarding the performance of outsourcing (as a customer or provider)