Position: Design Manager/Head of design department
Company: Avenga
Category: Design
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2021-08-01T00:00:00+03:00

About the Role:
Avenga Ukraine is searching for a proven senior leader to oversee, lead, and grow our Design Team which ecompasses both consumer as well as enterprise spaces. You should be passionate about delivering quality at scale, and able to bring organization vision, structure, and leadership to help teams succeed.

Accountable for:
Responsible for aligning design strategy and growth for the Design.
Department and holistic vision of Design Direction.
Responsible for hiring and growing the design team, contributing to development of design culture at Avenga Ukraine along with other Designers.
Provide Mentorship and Career Development of your Team.
Foster an environment of diversity and trust, where designers can accomplish their best work.
Driving the overall Departament Development Roadmap: helping teams define scope, milestones, and schedules. 
Managing and tracking OKRs to monitor the success of the program and find creative ways to help the team connect with their objectives.
Continuously evolving processes and tools required changes to make sure our product teams can deliver measurable value unimpeded by unnecessary complexity in their workflow.
Supporting the team with effective team communication, proactive problem solving, information distribution.
Facilitate Design Workshops - as for internal and external projects.
Help Team on Researches and Managing Projects where needed
Partner closely with other Department Managers, Product Owners, and Sales teams to understand what each of our diverse segments needs. 

Who you are:
 6+ years of relevant design experience in digital products, 2+ years in people management.
Experience managing  designers, and the ability to build, mentor and motivate teams.
Has a portfolio with work you personally designed and shipped, but also with examples of work of your team and their achievements.
Comfortable communicating and speaking about product strategy, design goals and execution.
Fluent in translating UX and product strategy, user and market research into complex User Flows, and simple and minimalistic User Interface.
Excellent communication skills, and the ability to effectively communicate design decisions as presenting skills.
Addicted to learning and sharing your knowledge inside the team.

Bonus Points:
Even if you are less than 80% experienced in the points described above still have a desire to learn and grow.
Being a problem-solver. You accept finding out you're wrong.
You bring unique strengths and perspectives to the team. We're looking to build a diverse team where our skills and experience can complement each other.
You have an eagerness go deeper in Customer Experience, UX best practices and enlarging Design Thinking approach.