VP Product Design (f/m/x)
Description
- Reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer, and working closely with Engineering and Marketing, you will be accountable for the overall experience of the NI user journey from the first touch point on the web across our entire product ecosystem.
- You will lead design across the NI product ecosystem of award-winning music software and hardware as well as the customer & community experience on native-instruments.com
- You are accountable for the design mission & strategy and will help us to implement processes and systems to come up with world class design at scale
- You will help to establish a seamless user journey between all products & services and make our ecosystem accessible to the next generation of music creators
- You will inspire, lead & develop the design team at NI consisting of more than 20 user interface, interaction & industrial designers and UX researchers working inside cross functional product development teams
- As a part of the senior leadership team in product, engineering & marketing you will make sure design and its requirements and impact on the customer and business are represented and balanced appropriately
Requirements
- Your extensive experience in leading and mentoring digital design teams within complex or matrix style organizations will be critical for this role
- A broad knowledge relating to user centered design methodologies and how they can be applied in agile development setups for software and hardware products
- Guided by your motivation for design innovation, your proven track record of modernizing and developing design across an entire user journey and ecosystem
- Your demonstrated ability to influence others through thought leadership, your collaborative approach and your commitment to champion our journey to become a more diverse and inclusive work space
- As a key leader within our business, your ability to motivate and inspire design specialists across various design disciplines will be a key success factor and support your success in building and developing your team
- Extensive experience setting up design strategy & processes
- Strong and persuasive communication skills, adaptable to various audiences – from executives to product owners and designers
- Passion for music and deep desire to help creators succeed - an understanding of music creation and the music creator space is a plus.
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For over 20 years, Native Instruments has been the backbeat to the music industry. As leaders in digital music creation and performance, we’re right there on stage and in the studio with global stars and legends in the making. Driven by our mission to make music creation more inclusive and accessible, our hardware, software and digital services provide innovative, fully-integrated solutions for music producers of all styles and genres. We are based in the heart of the German capital’s creative hub employing more than 400 people across our seven offices in Berlin, Los Angeles, Tokyo, London, Toronto, Paris, and Shenzhen.