Position: Head of Design Department
Company: RubyGarage
Category: Design
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

RubyGarage is looking for a talented, experienced Head of Design Department who wants to take charge of the development of our exciting projects in web-conferencing, e-commerce, fintech industries around the globe. As the Department Lead, you’ll utilize both leadership skills and technical expertise to enable UX/UI Design Team to deliver great work.

**Responsibilities:**
    • Manage UX/UI Design Team strategy development and implementation 
    • Work closely with CEO for design UX/UI Design Team strategy and set goals for growth 
    • Manage and design UX/UI Design Team operational process, organize and coordinate operations in ways that ensure maximum productivity of the UX/UI Design Team in vectors: people, processes, and procedures
    • Manage the UX/UI Design Team customer services development, implementation, and provision
    • Access market conditions related to the services provision, promotion, and development 
    • Find ways to increase the quality and reduce the cost of customer services   
    • Manage the UX/UI Design Team’s resources utilization, engagement, and workload
    • Plan and monitor the UX/UI Design Team resources allocation on the company’s projects. Makes a decision about whom to allocate to project or service based on skills and workload
    • Work closely with the Recruitment Team for recruitment of the UX/UI Design Team staff 
    • Work closely with the HR Team for the UX/UI Design Team human resources management 
    • Manage the UX/UI Design Team internship program: develop an internship program, assign mentors to monitor and coordinate the internship period, make a decision about the closing of the internship
    • Manage the UX/UI Design Team budgets and profit allocations, evaluate and improve the UX/UI Design Team financial performance through establishing of effective UX/UI Design Team resources utilization system 
    • Represent the UX/UI Design Team in public, promote services among the company clients, the UX/UI Design Team staff, and in the market through external communication

**Qualifications:**
    • Strong management and operational skills 
    • Understanding all design process stages, using familiar designers techniques based on business and user-centered approaches: personas, interviews, competitors analysis, UX audit, wireframing & prototyping, user testing
    • Ability to build and implement the operational process, share and set-up strategy-oriented mindset among the subordinates  
    • Ability to organize the work across the Design team, defined goals and KPI’s for the team
    • Excellent people management skills, ability to manage and plan the Design team staff workload, and involvement in the company’s projects 
    • Good organization and time management skills 
    • Coaching skills: ability to continuously monitor the technical work done by Team staff, develop and implement educational programs and activities 
    • Strong decision-making skills, ability to perform effective decisions (to hire a candidate, allocate the right person to the project, etc.)
    • Strategic mindset, ability to define, set up, and implement operational strategies 
    • Ability to develop and achieve strategic plans 
    • Experience in planning and budgeting
    • Excellent communication, public speaking, and presentation skills
    • Ability to work with clients to understand requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision
    • Expertise in design tools such as Sketch/Figma, InVision, basic knowledge of HTML/CSS 
    • Knowledge of design guidelines for web and mobile platforms
    • Understanding the opportunities and limitations of the technology that the design solution will be expressed in and working with developers to determine its implementation 
    • Awareness of current trends in web/mobile design and web/mobile technologies

**We offer: ** 
    • Opportunity to work in a large, professional design team with the support of a mentor
    • Clearly defined role and area of responsibility 
    • Motivation and support from the company to raise the qualification level and study new design practices
    • Opportunity to work on interesting, constantly evolving projects
    • Use of advanced tools, techniques, and methods during the design creation
    • Opportunity to implement your initiatives to optimize the design process in the company
    • Vertical and horizontal career growth, opportunity to grow to the level of senior designer
    • Review of compensation every six months 
    • Compensation for training activities and educational resources
    • Reimbursement of expenses for visiting health and sports centers
    • Paid vacation and sick days
    • The choice to work in the office or remotely