Experience Design Director

Experience Design Director

Join a new high tech fitness and wearable device venture devoted to delivering elegant fitness experiences. Our user-centered offerings incorporate a healthy balance of sophistication and approachability coupled with actionable insights that help real people make the most out of their fitness routines. Our mission is to inspire people to achieve the health and fitness goals that matter most to them.

Job Description

We are seeking an engaging, design-tested leader to become our Experience Design Director. You'll test, iterate, and refine our core offerings and feature set, starting first with the launch of our first product in Fall 2014. As the chief user advocate, you'll be responsible for cross-functional research, analysis, concept development, and execution. Over time you'll grow a team around you to add additional firepower for our efforts. You'll work with our Product Director to continue to build and evolve, but eventually creative control over the entire experience will rest with you and your team.

As with our other senior roles, this opportunity offers you a seat at the table of an exciting, rapidly growing company. You'll help not only set direction for the experience, but for our company as a whole. The role involves significant hands-on collaboration with other team leads to continue to evolve the go-to-market strategy and execution, as well as team recruiting, management, training and mentoring.

Your Responsibilities

• Guide the team to design and develop a best-in-class physical/digital experience
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product management, user research, content design, visual design, and engineering to ensure a smooth experience development process
• Manage the recruiting process for your multi-disciplinary team
• Formulate and execute user research & synthesis, exploration, storytelling, detailed design, user testing and prototyping
• Develop an work plan founded in agile principles to update and continuously improve the application and user experience
• Build a user-centered application and experience for mobile platforms that interacts seamlessly with products
• Develop and maintain effective specifications and design patterns
• Scope design initiatives and manage/prioritize work items

Qualifications

• Degree in interaction or graphic design. While a masters degree is preferred, depth of work experience will also be considered
• A depth of experience in Interface Design, Interaction Design, or Information Architecture for consumer products. We're looking for someone that has at least five years of experience with significant depth in at least one of these areas.
• Experience managing cross-disciplinary design teams
• A portfolio demonstrating past work experience and relevant, user-centered experiences
• Experience designing interfaces for hardware devices and familiarity with firmware development
• In-depth knowledge of designing both mobile and web-based applications
• A passion for (and hopefully some experience in!) improving health and wellness for real people
• Ability to comfortably dive into designing visual screens and/or prototyping with various tools/software of your choice
• As a team player with a can-do attitude, you know how to do a lot with a little in our dynamic, fast-paced and entrepreneurial culture