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Senior Manager - Product Design (UX/UI)
Fossil
Burlingame, CA, United States
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Your Role
The Role
Fossil Group is looking for a UX/UI Design Senior Manager to join our SF Bay Area-based design team. Fossil Group is making a huge impact in the Wearable industry by creating innovative Connected Devices at the intersection of Fashion and Technology. We are growing our Connected Devices team in Burlingame, CA and have exciting design career opportunities to work along a diverse set of professionals with backgrounds including user interaction, user interface and industrial design as well as software, electrical and mechanical engineering. We’re looking for an exceptional talent with experience in human centered design process and a track record in shipping outstanding mobile app designs.
As a Product Design Senior Manager, you will be responsible for guiding a small team from various disciplines of design. In addition to fostering a creative and excellence driven team, this role will will be responsible for extracting actionable insights from user sessions and creating best-in-class consumer experiences (concepts, user interface designs, interaction models, prototypes, etc.). Your passion for creating unique, elegant and highly functional experiences and ability to communicate a vision and inspire teams of product managers, engineers, designers and marketers will serve you in the fast paced yet respectful environment of Fossil Group.
Your Impact:
Manage content
• Lead creation of digital experiences, including UX flows and visual interfaces on wearables and mobile (iOS and Android) that are equally simple, effective, innovative and delightful.
• Lead multidisciplinary team of designers to brainstorm, prototype, test and execute on ideas
• Balance resources, according to creative and business requirements
• Promote best creative practices and encourage testing new methods and tools to create, prototype and evaluate innovative ideas
• Encourage most creative solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives
• Conduct or assist user research planning, recruiting and insights gathering
• Synthesize research insights into actionable ideas
• Drive documentation and communication to work with our global product development team
Team Development (the Product Design team)
• Lead with a vision and a relentless passion for excellence to the smallest of details
• Recruit, inspire and mentor a small team of experience and visual designers
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration with engineers, designers, marketers of the group
• Provide and solicit feedback from other designers in order to continually raise the bar for quality
• Encourage a culture of curiosity, tenacity, respect and optimism
• Promote collaboration and constructive critique
Your Skills
• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Design, Visual Communications or equivalent degree
• 7+ years relevant experience in the field of mobile and consumer products design, backed by a solid portfolio
• 2+ years leading teams, preferably in the consumer devices industry
• Experience and passion in the field of Consumer Electronics and mobile app development (iOS and Android)
• Mastery of navigating and balancing a design vision with technical constraints and marketing dynamics
• Expertise in user-centered design methods
• Experience driving continuous improvement through product testing, user research, and prototyping
• Ability to visualize, verbalize and promote a design vision to a diverse audience of engineers, designers, marketers and executives
• Fluency in Adobe creative suite, Sketch, Flinto and/or InVision
• Experience working with a design firm or consultancy highly preferred
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed (approx 15%)
Brand Highlights
Fossil is an American watch and lifestyle brand inspired by all things curious. Since 1984, we’ve been a creative collaborative focused on authentic design, craftsmanship, and storytelling. Fossil has grown to offer watches, bags, jewelry, eyewear, and most recently wearables. With more than 400 retail stores, 4,000 wholesale locations and 13,000 employees worldwide, passion drives our curiosity and inspires us to always ask, “what’s next?”
Get To Know Us
Fossil Group, Inc. is a global design, marketing and distribution company specializing in consumer lifestyle and fashion accessories. In a word, we’re innovators (and proud of it). In 1984, we were a small watch business with five employees. Today, under a diverse portfolio of proprietary and licensed brands, we offer watches, jewelry, handbags, small leather goods and, most recently, wearables. With our newest owned brand, Misfit, we are uniquely positioned to lead the convergence of style and technology in the high-growth connected space. Our strategic channels of distribution include department stores, specialty stores, eCommerce websites and more than 600 company-owned and operated retail stores. Find even more information, including press releases and SEC filings, at www.fossilgroup.com.
Accommodations Statement
Fossil is an Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We consider applicants without regard to race, sex, religion, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. Anyone requiring special accommodations to our normal application process please email applicationaccommodation@fossil.com and we will assist you.