VP of Design

1 month ago

New York, New York, United States Umbrage Full time

Umbrage delivers cutting-edge software solutions by leveraging advanced trends and designs in technology. We are not a consultancy nor a design agency; we are artisans in designing and developing software solutions for our clients. Our focus is crafting state of the art digital products with impeccable design coupled with source code engineering.

Open communication is the foundation of our culture. We share ideas freely and understand that our cumulative experience and continued development nurtures excellence in our software solutions.

Job Summary

Overall accountability of design craft for your studio including: consistent quality of project

delivery, culture, community engagement, cross-craft collaboration, continual skills

development, recruiting, mentoring, performance management, and compensation.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

At Umbrage, we think great designers originates from different professional backgrounds

and have diverse skill sets, but consistent with all Umbrage designers, is their ability to

facilitate creative thinking and to communicate technical details to a broad audience.

Umbrage Vice Presidents of Design, have experiences, attitudes, and aptitudes that

include:

Leadership

· Leading a culture of collaboration, constructive feedback, and transparency across crafts, your peers, and with leadership.

· You represent value, priorities and needs of our Design Craft both internally and externally.

· You ensure our Design Team is consistently adding value and contributing to firm growth goals.

· Overall accountability of design craft for your studio including craft delivery in projects, culture, community engagement, cross-craft collaboration, continual skills development, recruiting, mentoring, performance management, and compensation.

· Creating studio strategies that align to global growth strategies & objectives and accountability of initiatives to achieve set objectives.

· Deep understanding of the market and can speak to our clients and industry groups about our company, content, craft, emerging trends, etc.

· You may participate in defining the business strategy and financial plan for the Umbrage Design Craft.

· You may participate in defining the business strategy and financial plan for the Umbrage Design Craft.

· You tackle special projects assigned by studio leadership.

· Identify and participate in the development of new offerings.

· You understand, represent, and enhance the Umbrage brand.

· You model acceptable standards of behavior and support and enhance the culture of Umbrage.

· Leading in the community through speaking engagements and publishing of mediaon behalf of Umbrage.

Client Management

· Responsible for overall project governance on assigned key projects, ensuring project team and client feel supported.

· You are the go-to escalation point across project teams and clients as needed in your studio.

· You speak thoughtfully and confidently with the client, simultaneously representing both our studio's best interests and the client's best interests in our joint endeavors.

· You cultivate positive relationships of mutual respect with clients.

· Regularly monitor major project milestones, swiftly identifying and addressing any potential risks, roadblocks, or deviations from the plan.

· You identify new sales opportunities for the studio by listening attentively to client asks, carefully analyzing business and project goals.

· Leading design points of view, proposal creation, pitching proposals to clients, and relationship management & development across client accounts.

Qualifications

Education

You have a minimum of a bachelor's degree in interaction design, experience design or

related field (e.g., information design, graphic design or human factors) or the equivalent

experience.

Experience

· You have built successful design teams known for delivering high quality experiences.

· You have experience managing design projects that are on-time, on-spec, and on-budget.

· You are an expert at bringing digital products to life and delivering complex design projects.

· You have mastery of design principles, research methodologies, design processes, experience design foundations, and digital best practices.

· You have a strong visual design sense, command over typography, interaction design and usability.

Skill Requirements

· Ability to learn new software quickly; experience with Microsoft Office, Adobe

· Creative Suite, Figma, Miro, Confluence, and/or JIRA.

· Knowledge of and experience with applying user-centered design processes.

· Understanding of areas of specialization within the greater design landscape, including but not limited to Design Research, Visual Design, and Content Design.

· Understand of general business principles including pipeline forecasting and budget management.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

Design positions require the ability to routinely sit; stand; walk; talk and hear; use a

keyboard; stoop; twist; reach; lift; bend; and travel to clients' offices.

Umbrage is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All decisions regarding employment shall be made without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression and pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, disability status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other basis as protected by federal, state or local laws.

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