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Senior Director, User Experience
Internet Industry Company
New York, NY, United States
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About Audible:
Audible, Inc. is the world’s largest seller and producer of spoken audio entertainment, information and educational programming. Since inventing and commercializing the first portable digital audio player in 1997, our focus on technological innovation and superior programming has earned us millions of subscribers around the world. We’re an Company subsidiary with a presence on three different continents, yet we maintain a startup vibe and small company feel. We offer more than 300,000 downloadable audiobooks, audio editions of periodicals, and other programs, and an escalating array of listening products that enrich daily life for a growing population of people who want to be more productive, well-informed, and thoughtfully entertained.
Audible is actively seeking a Sr Director of User Experience to assist in our efforts to fill the minds, the hearts and the souls of a global consumer base with premium audio content that enables learning, entertainment and education through a great variety of devices leveraging Company’s global platforms.
This is a complex multi-product/device/market/platform challenge that is ideal for a UX thought leader that has the functional depth and breadth, the desire to build the best UX and the ambition to change people’s lives and provide the best possible content discovery, subscription and consumption experience.
About the Role:
• Build an awesome cross-disciplinary UX team that embraces creativity, rigor and data.
• Lead the definition and implementation of our UX approach and best practices.
• Drive a responsive design agenda, ensuring product experiences render seamlessly
• Appropriately balance need for efficiency and speed
• Be a key leader in driving, defining and executing the company’s innovation agenda
• Monitor relevant emerging trends and technologies,
• Ensure product experiences behave according to our brand values and promise.
• Establish design standards that reflect brand standards across the organization/territories.
• Drive UX quality across product/devices/territories.
• Build UX team delivery and collaborative processes. Deliver on-time and on-budget.
• Always care to build and maintain strong talent foundation across UX function
• Be a champion and evangelist for the UX discipline.
• Measure, iterate, and deliver delightful experiences.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• 7+ years in UX leadership position for a consumer brand.
• Team building, mentoring, and leadership skills is essential
• Strong management and project management skills
• Excellent creative, communication and analytical skills
• Strong intellectual and emotional capacities
• Passion for design and an eye for quality, taste, style, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to delight users at scale across platforms
• Deep knowledge of the global digital device landscape
• Deep knowledge of responsive design techniques
• Deep knowledge and experience of user-research
Benefits:
We have a comprehensive benefits package but here are some of the fun perks:
• Free catered lunch daily, breakfast on Mondays, all the snacks you can eat and Happy Hour on a Friday
• Free onsite gym and 25% fitness reimbursement
• Ruthless ping-pong tournaments and seasonal sports clubs - volleyball, basketball, soccer, etc.
• Endless company sponsored events
• Transit reimbursement, paid parking and shuttle service
• Tuition assistance
• Annual Company discount
• Access to Company Web Services and much more...
Audible is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer-Minority/ Female/ Disability/ Vet