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Design Lead
Condé Nast
Austin, TX, United States
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Who We Are
About Condé Nast Co/Lab
The mission of Condé Nast Co/Lab is to empower our brands for business and creative success by creating new digital experiences. We are a group of designers, product managers, engineers, strategists, and researchers dedicated to building innovative, user-centric products.
About Our Design Team
We are team of digital designers with expertise in visual design, interaction design, and design research. We partner closely with product management and engineering to strategize, design, and launch digital products. We believe that a well-formed design culture is essential to delivering top-notch work.
Who You Are
As a master of your craft, you draw from a broad toolkit of processes spanning digital design and innovation. You look for opportunities to apply new approaches to age-old challenges, solving for business and user needs in the process.
• Proven expertise in visual design and/or interaction design
• Expert conceptual thinker; imagining, iterating, innovating, capturing and establishing design principles and moods that drive and enhance aesthetics and address the functional and emotional needs of users
• Ability to establish and articulate a design strategy that ties back to the overall business context
• Ability to maintain quality and rigor for end-to-end design initiatives while fulfilling business objectives and goals
• Established approach to framing and solving hard problems and a rich understanding of a range of design tools and methods
As a teammate, you drive clarity in undefined problem spaces. You yield interesting, effective results that honor brand ethos.
• Develops the process/approach for tackling a problem
• Confident and enthusiastic collaborator; works closely with cross-functional leads (strategy, product, research, engineering, brand) to define the problem and connect business strategy down to UX design activities
As a creative mentor, you are always looking for opportunities to impart your wisdom and expertise as the team grows.
• Forms and leads an IxD and/or visual design POV for the Design Team at large
• Provides thoughtful feedback, accepts and resolves critique gracefully
• Supports design leads in defining product roadmaps
• Actively recruits and hires, identifies talent and grows the team
• Sets the tone and shapes the culture of the Design Team
• A love of cultural brands and an interest in driving the future of storytelling which will help frame the larger context we are working within, including the nature of an advertising-driven business
• Involvement with the design community in NYC and at large as we increase the visibility of Condé Nast’s growing capabilities across digital strategy and experiences