What you'll be doing
As a Senior Manager, the UX Product Design Manager will lead, set design standards and best practice across your team and the digital business. The role will work confidently across platforms (eg. native mobile, web, mobile web) and take a keen interest in designing experiences enabled by emerging technologies. Reporting to the Head of Product & Experience, you will be instrumental to devising the design strategy and building the practice and culture of design across the digital business. You will be working in collaboration with the with other teams to help craft, refine and iterate on the look for all Catch platforms, with the goal of creating and shaping experiences our customers keep coming back for. You will have experience at designing for scale and help socialise the design ops initiatives across squads (eg. design system). You will help drive customer obsession and represent our customers in every conversation. You will also be a key player in reimagining the digital experience at Catch and ensuring brand continuity across all digital platforms.
**Requirements**:
The skills you'll have
- Minimum 5 years' experience designing across mobile and web interfaces
- Minimum 3 years managing design/CX/UX teams
- Proven experience designing across mobile apps, web, emerging digital experiences and marketing
- E-commerce experience
- Experience working closely with and influencing cross functional digital teams
- Experience with setting design direction and interpreting brand across all digital channels
- Experience working with defined personas and journey maps.
- Experience leading a team of designers
- Ability to make excellent design decisions with reference to research and data
- Familiar with both Apple's Human Interaction Guidelines & Android Material Design
- Some knowledge with HTML / CSS
- High level of understanding of the constraints and opportunities unique to each platform
- An excellent understanding of customer-centred design (Design thinking, HCD, Agile, Lean UX a must)
- High-level presentation skills
- Some knowledge of Usability Factors in Human Computer Interaction (desired)
- Ability to work cross-functionally with developers and Product Managers in an Agile environment
- Knowledge of design tools - design tools (e.g. Figma, Adobe CS)
- Skilled in rapid prototyping, and working knowledge of various testing methods (smokescreen, guerilla test, usability etc ) and can mentor team across this
A Bit About You
- Lateral thinker with passion for design and design strategy
- Inspire and lead your teammates through your passion for design
- Results-orientated and resilient
- Strong verbal/written communication, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams
- Passionate about building teams and product design culture
- Exceptional personal standards of honesty, integrity and professionalism
- Excellent team player
- Strong interpersonal skills, relationship building & stakeholder management skills
- A self starter, showing initiative & good people management skills
- Curiosity & a willingness to lean into a complex domain & problems alongside design team
- Comfort in a fast-paced, highly-dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders
**Benefits**
Join our team of Catchies
There has never been a more exciting time to join the Catch Team
Our people are at the heart of everything we do, and will go above and beyond for our customers "To be the trusted place where Australians start their shopping journey".
Working at Catch, you'll experience:
- Flexibility comes in all shapes and sizes at Catch, and as part of our commitment to flexibility, we offer all team members the opportunity to take control over when, where and how work is accomplished depending on your role.
- To help our team members juggle the demands of work and life, our health and wellbeing program aims to encourage positive morale and help employees reduce stress through the promotion of work/ life balance.
- To enable our team members to give back to our communities, we offer a day's paid volunteer leave
- My Catch Perks - up to 5% discount off selected retailers including Kmart, Target, Bunnings and Officeworks
- An organisation that is experiencing incredible growth
- Support and collaboration, not just with their immediate team, but with the broader organisation as well
- Other unbelievable benefits and perks like free One Pass membership, study support, in house learning and development, parental leave programs, plus loads more...
**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent