Position: UI/UX Design Team Lead
Company: League Design Agency
Experience required: 5y
Category: Design
English level: upper
Published: 2021-11-01T00:00:00+02:00

By the rational power of design processes, using the best practices, testing & innovating them. But to make it happen, we need Leaders with a Vision. We need You.

**How to realize that you are ready to be a Team Leader?**
1. You’ve successfully supervised 1-2 designers.
2. You mentor or teach courses.
3. Quickly generate ideas, but want to delegate implementation.
4. Thinking about going into teaching or management.
5. Have a desire to create your own studio and „do things right”.
6. You run into a „glass ceiling” in your current company.
7. There is no way to experiment and explore.
8. You’re starting to lose faith in your design.

**Our Team Leaders manage a design team of 5-7 people, and here are their personal qualities:**
— Mentoring. The ability to select promising team members and nurture them by filling knowledge gaps and drawing up growth plans.
— Leadership. The ability to achieve your own and the client’s aims by meeting the goals of your team members.
— Goodwill. Whatever happens, you remain a reasonable person and maintain awareness in relationships with your colleagues.
— Proactivity. Ability to identify problems and find solutions, take responsibility not only for design but for the whole project.

**The Team Leader helps the project to start and checks if its core ideas were implemented. There are skills which enable to manage this:**
— Analytical mindset. Ability to realize the client’s business problem, offer the optimal solution and understand the principles of MVP formation.
— Conversational English. The B2/Upper-Intermediate level and good communication skills will be enough, but literate writing is a must.
— Technical savvy. You need to understand the technological cycle of creating digital products and the basic principles of their functioning.
— Communication skills. Ability to hear the Talker and convey your thoughts to Clients and the Team in a reasoned and convincing way.

**Team Leaders are the Guardians of Design Quality, and they do it thanks to:**
— Excellent experience in 5+ years. We follow Gladwell’s theory and believe that the path to Professionalism takes no less than ten thousand hours to go.
— Knowledge of standards. Experience in creating and using design systems; understanding the modern OS standards.
— Good Portfolio. Examples of projects with strong visual and logical concepts, victories in competitions and awards of any size.
— Experience of cooperation (will be a plus). Working with the development team and business analysts.

**What do we offer:**
— Affiliate salary (depends on your skills and experience)
— Opportunity to upgrade into a Design-Director and a Partner
— 50% compensation for educational activities
— Internal lectures and workshops
— Corporate English
— Corporate Library instead of a PlayStation
— Subscription to the Bang Bang Education
— Subscription to the Projector.Library
— Opportunity to consult with industry leaders
— Help to draw up and implement personal growth plans
— Work in a smooth rhythm without crunches
— Ability to choose projects for a Team
— The opportunity to participate in the selection of team members
— We do not work with projects from industries: gambling, microloans, tobacco and other suspicious activities
— Convenient and fashionable office on Vozdvyzhenka
— Systemаtic management and orderly processes within the company
— Possibility to influence processes
— Help in building a personal brand.
— Help with relocating to Kyiv

**How to apply:**
— write a cover letter with an essay „Why I Want to become a Team Leader”;
— attach a link to your portfolio;
— attach links to your social networks.