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Job Description - Director Design Experience, Software & Services (680693)

Job Description

Director Design Experience, Software & Services-680693

Description

Reporting to the Vice President, Connectivity Solutions, the Director Software and Services experience design leader will make our products simple and delightful to use through thoughtful interaction design and exceptional visual design. We are looking for an individual who can represent the profound importance of well-designed products with our engineering and product management teams. Our team objective is to fundamentally change the way people interact with their PC through simple and intuitive applications and seamless connectivity across all of their devices. Your contribution will be central to meeting this goal.

Our preferred candidate will have a background in user experience design with a deep understanding of interaction design, user experience, visual design and web front-end development processes. We seek a talented individual with expertise in defining and leading web-centric programs, as well as a proven ability to drive an experience design methodology with the conviction and rigor to ensure on-time delivery. You will grow a team of experience designers and lead the interaction with our design agencies. In parallel, the team will be expected to innovate and prototype future experiences to ensure the progression of the vision. This leader will seek out customer insights and determine creative ways to evaluate and test their hypotheses. They will also build awareness through regular demonstrations and communications to executives and critical partners.

Role Characteristics

Key deliverables:

·         Lead the overall philosophy and execution of ASGs design team

·         Deep consumer insight to understand how experiences and products fit with customer lifestyles and their interaction models

·         An understanding of the interaction and visual design models that will appeal tpo our target segments (kids / teens /students /parents / seniors etc)

·         Interaction with engineering to define the technology architecture for a common interaction model with standard web mark-up languages

·         User-experience driven view of our products and services

·         Exceptional aesthetic sense and the confidence to back it up

Critical tasks:

·         Deliver the right vision, strategy and experience definitions

·         Deliver solid segmentation and a compelling value proposition

·         Recommend the right new product and technology investments

Primary internal and external interfaces:

·     Internal

·         Personal Computer global business unit

·         Regional Marketing & Business Owners

·         Pan-HP Functional Leaders (Marketing, etc.)

·         Marketing & Business Owners in adjacent business

·         Legal

·         Executives

·         HP Press Relations & Analyst Relations

·     External: Customers, Suppliers, Partners

Most challenging aspects of the role:

·         Creation and delivery of compelling vision for software experience

·         Driving a consumer centric culture across the organization

·         Consensus building with GBU, across Regions, and adjacent business

·         Managing conflicting priorities between businesses

·         Making investment and resource tradeoffs of limited staff and funding

Qualifications

Experience

·         Bachelor''s (undergraduate) degree or Master''s (graduate) degree in, Marketing, Design or non-business/technical field of study.

·         Five or more years experience as senior Marketing manager within a consumer products company.

·         Demonstrated leadership, team building, drive, confidence and risk taking.

·         Demonstrated ability to influence, negotiate and persuade, both internally and with external partners.

·         Skills include: teamwork, strategy development, interpersonal, creativity, leadership, communication, and excellent presentation skills

·         Knowledge and experience in: consumer market, consumer needs

·         Fluency in English

Key skills, behaviors and unique knowledge needed:

·     Skills & Behaviors

·         Creative design

·         Communication (Internal & External)

·         Talent management (hiring, growth, etc.)

·         Multi-tasking

·         Negotiation

·         Influencing

·         Strategy

·         Analytical

·     Unique Knowledge

·         Experience Design

·         Consumer Market

·         Consumer Needs

·         Business Strategy: goal to develop a strategy that will be tuned to lifestyle - lifestyle computing

·         Region knowledge & understanding

·         Passionate and knowledgeable about the consumer with an ability to excite

·         Retail channel knowledge and experience

Job
- Engineering

Primary Location
- United States-California - Cupertino

Other Locations
- United States-Colorado - Fort Collins, United States-Washington - Seattle

Schedule
- Full-time

Job Type
- Experienced

Shift
- Day Job

Travel
- Yes, 25% of the time

Details:

Job Id: 31433931

Posted / Updated: 4/13/2012 3:55:47 AM

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