• Manager, Product Design (Remote)

    Kohl's (Menomonee Falls, WI)


    About the Role

     

    As Manager, Product Design, you will oversee your team's daily operations, provide guidance, foster a collaborative environment, and ensure alignment with business and prioritization goals. Your design and thought leadership will drive your team members' performance, innovation, and professional developmen t.

    What You’ll Do

    + Drive a customer-first approach for the User Centered Design (UCD) process and bring design thinking to balanced teams

    + Demonstrate creative leadership helping the team and key stakeholders with product vision, business priorities and aligned outcomes of the Balance Team (BT)

    + Develop and implement design strategies through key insights and data that enhance user experience, align with business goals and foster innovative solutions for the BTs

    + Educate and promote research methods and educate BTs on how to choose optimal learning plans for every project

    + Create intuitive and impactful holistic Merchandizing experiences that enhances users workflow

    + Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to ensure projects align with overall business objectives

    + Employ and build holistic design system to meet ambiguous and complex challenges, ensuring interconnectedness and efficiencies across system components

    + Additional tasks may be assigned

     

    What Skills You Have

    Required

    + 6-10 years experience as a designer creating software products and owning an experience

    + Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field of study, or equivalent work experience

    + Relevant experiencin enterprise systems design

    + Management experience

    Preferred

    + Experience in User-Centered Design, closely collaborating with agile Software Developers/Product managers and contributing to successful products using Lean Startup and Agile methodologies

    + Deep experience in: Experience Design, User Research, Interaction Design, Visual Design or Service Design

    + Prior experience in merchandizing and familiarity with industry standards in Merchandise higharchy and process.

    + Comfort with ambiguous problems, legacy technology and net new solutions