📈 Strategic Thinking & Vision
• Diagnose and present opportunities for business growth that are thoughtful, unique and complete.
• Influence product direction and create a vision of the area you are responsible for while helping designers execute.
• Understand and support our journey toward becoming a world-class design team.
📣 Alignment & Influence
• Use a variety of communication channels and approaches that drive strategic outcomes across your division.
• Deliver design across teams in support of product strategy.
• Bring missions together across your teams design work to ensure a cohesive user experience.
🥳Talent growth
• Give impactful opportunities to strong performers.
• Provide clear feedback, coaching, and career development guidance.
• Ensure designers perform well and have clear, ambitious, impactful goals for product work and career progression.
• Motivate designers to focus on delivering their best work and ambitious about raising the bar.
💪 Participation & Empowerment
• Lead/partner / support appropriately with your teammates to drive the best output possible for projects, planning and process.
• Step in when required to take on project work.
🚢 Delivery
• Actively involved and aid your team in determining how long a project should take based on its level of effort.
• Ensure design is not a blocker for projects shipping on time.
• Find ways to deliver work early when appropriate.
• Improve the standard of work shipped by your teams.
• Help teams ship high-quality designs in line with our quality standards.
• Give design feedback supported by a clear rationale, not opinion.
🏋️♀️ Design Operations
• Create systems and methods that enable your teams to do their best work with your limited involvement.
• Promote and are accountable to the design team's project process and foster effective teams.
• Improve the quality and speed of design work through process contribution.
• Think and plan cycles ahead.
