UX Design Lead
Remote, Chicago or Seattle
Contract to full time placement at client
About the Role
We help our billion-dollar client explore, design, build and refine amazing products for their passionate customers. We offer a unique try-before-you-buy opportunity to start contract and then join our client full time. You get a chance to work with the team, ramp up on their business and customers and they get a chance to get to know you and see the impact you can have. We believe innovation happens when we focus on the customer first and make experiences simple. We’re looking for an experienced, thoughtful, and creative design leader to help us unlock the future of our customer experiences. As a Design Lead, you will inspire a team of creatives to deliver compelling art and designs (2D + 3D) that will enable our product and engineering team to do their best work.
Responsibilities:
Lead a team of artists and designers to build simple, compelling experiences
Mentor and grow creatives of varying career stages
Responsible for delivering creative solutions on schedule, at quality
Lead strategic and creative initiatives
Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to influence strategy and roadmap
Effectively manage a diverse and distributed team of full-time and contract creatives
Provide creative guidance and best practices for team
Design compelling customer experiences as an individual contributor
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned
Required: (please ensure you meet the listed requirements prior to applying)
Bachelor or Associate degree in Design or equivalent professional experience
5+ years of people management experience – building/leading diverse, inclusive, and high-functioning teams of varying career stages
5+ years shipping consumer mobile, desktop, console and/or web consumer experiences
Preferred:
Ability to concept, design & refine into a feasible customer experience
Experience making complex problems into simple customer solutions
Experience coaching early in career creatives
Experience leading creative work and overseeing creative teams and/or agencies
Experience presenting design explorations to all levels of an organization (individual contributors to execs)
Experience partnering well with Product Managers, Program Managers, or similar role
Ability to build consensus within a cross-functional team
Ability to give actionable UX feedback on product implementation
Experience designing video games or casino style games
Experience communicating product requirements verbally and through written documentation
Create prototypes to help pitch new concepts
Willing to travel and participate in training and meetings as needed
Please include resume and portfolio as appropriate
About the Company
Jackalope Productions is committed to our contribution to a better technology industry through diversity and inclusion and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and facilitator between our clients and applicants. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and contracts without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, parental responsibilities or veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or hiring process, please contact us.