Position: Head of Design Department
Company: RubyGarage
Category: Design
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

**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
- 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