As the Design Manager, I lead a team of product designers tackling enterprise challenges in the Student and Customer Experience space. My primary functions are 1) Design team development and 2) Design direction. Team development consists of hiring, coaching, mentoring, empowering and unblocking your team. Providing design direction involves giving feedback, contributing to product definition and creation, influencing and collaborating across teams, leadership and stakeholders and pushing teams to both think big and reduce complexity. Empowering designers to generate multiple concepts that solve customer problems and evolve them into complete, well-documented solutions that deliver results against team and business goals.

As a Senior Design Manager at Fitbit, I am responsible for leading and inspiring the premium and (social) network design team to create engaging experiences for our users across all of our mobile software platform. A thought leader in design at Fitbit and within the community, and drive innovation alongside product, research and engineering leaders.

Directly responsible for managing teams of designers on projects including creative direction, project planning and team management.

Guides interaction, visual design, motion design and user research to achieve project success.

Communicates design concepts and solutions, as well as rationale behind decisions, to colleagues and executives. Along with socializing with other key leaders in company to get buy-in and support. Also selling and defending design concepts.

Mentors team to produce great work and progress in their careers.

Guiding teams and shipping products with minimal support from directors.

Driving design forward but enough awareness of when to change direction.

Responsible for directing and leading the design team with the ability to resolve complex communication issues. Also responsible for artistic strategy, budgets and schedules for key project design. Mentoring and supervising design team while introducing new and innovative strategies for design execution across mobile and desktop. Help motivate and influence designers to always attain for excellence in performance by empowering designers to reach their professional goals and provide support to do their best possible work without needing micromanaging. Responsible for overseeing and evangelizing design guidelines, patterns and strategies. Accountable for fostering a culture and appreciation within the company to rely and trust these guidelines through education and practical application.

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