Product Design Director manages and coordinates design, development, and enhancement of new and existing products/product lines. Evaluates and ensures design feasibility and design optimization. Being a Product Design Director assists in the determination of project milestones and timelines. Ensures team meets project milestones and completes projects within the established timeline. Additionally, Product Design Director evaluates issues, provides resolution, and communicates to management. Requires a bachelor's degree. Typically reports to top management. The Product Design Director typically manages through subordinate managers and professionals in larger groups of moderate complexity. Provides input to strategic decisions that affect the functional area of responsibility. May give input into developing the budget. To be a Product Design Director typically requires 3+ years of managerial experience. Capable of resolving escalated issues arising from operations and requiring coordination with other departments. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)
At IDEO, we use design to create new products, services, experiences, tangible strategies and creative capabilities (check out our work with Ethiqly, Ascencia & Kooth).
IDEO is in search of a Digital Product Design Director, who will scale their expertise in designing and delivering digital products by enabling others and directly enacting consulting services within our offer of building breakthrough products, services, and experiences. This individual will advance design-centric product leadership and champion the launch of innovative products into the market, commercial application of emerging technologies, and bring confidence to our clients through product-led prototyping and experimentation.
This hire will expand our portfolio of work in digital products through proactive business development with potential clients, scoping work collaboratively, building trusted client relationships, and establishing methods, approaches and consulting services for delivering digital products.
The successful candidate will bring experience with and knowledge of modern software design practice as both a practitioner and leader, as well as familiarity with or curiosity about the intersection of software design with human-centered design practice.
This role reports directly to our Chicago-based Partners.
An IDEO Digital Product Design Director's main priority is leading the design and development of innovative digital products that satisfy user desirability, technological feasibility, business viability, and social responsibility. This role includes product and client engagement ownership, leveraging foundational technical knowledge and a developer’s skillset to successfully deliver digital products to market, collaborating with development partners, as well as multidisciplinary teams. As part of the Software Design discipline, the Director will guide teams through the full digital product delivery lifecycle from blue-sky concepting to product launches, manage and mentor team members, provide expert advice and direction in digital product creation and make strategic decisions that influence product direction and performance, ensuring alignment with business goals.
We are especially excited to meet candidates with a strong consulting background. This role will work closely with the Chicago leadership team, local and hybrid project teams and business development teams, and other digital product leaders across North America.
This hire must be based within 2 hours of ground transportation to our Chicago Studio or willing to relocate.
IDEO proudly supports flexible work.
Please submit any relevant examples of work in portfolio/website format.
This application will remain open until Friday the 7th, 2024 at 12 am PST. Applications received after this date will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
IDEO is committed to paying its employees equitably, regardless of gender identity or race/ethnicity/cultural identity. We support the holistic well-being of our community by providing a thoughtfully designed benefits package.
The salary range for this role is $140 - 200k USD. This range is influenced by a wide range of factors considered in compensation decisions at IDEO. This includes, but is not limited to: skills, industry knowledge, and experience. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience & expertise, and other factors.
In addition to base compensation, IDEO offers a rich benefits package including the following:
Health Benefits: Vision, Dental, Healthcare
Financial Benefits: 401K matching
Family & Caregiving: Parental Leave, Adoption Assistance, Fertility Assistance, Transgender Medical Assistance, Breastmilk shipment, Back-up/Dependent Care, Pet Insurance
Other Benefits: Flexible Work (no mandated in-office days), Flexible Time Off, Paid Holidays, Annual Education Stipend
At IDEO, we are committed to the work of advancing diversity, equity and inclusion within our organization and in the world. Our purpose of having disproportionate, world-changing impact through design is directly connected to our ability to bring many different perspectives to the table. This applies to our candidates, the people we hire, the clients and customers we serve, and the communities we learn from in our research.
As a human-centered organization, we are committed to working with and designing for people of every race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socio-economic status, physical ability or attribute, religion, national origin, or political belief. We recognize that this commitment requires ongoing work and sustained attention, as well as adaptation to new insights and best practices. We keep our diversity data public for the sake of accountability and transparency. These commitments will also be part of your journey at IDEO, so please feel free to read more about them here.
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