Director Experience Design

Director Experience Design

Director Experience Design It s a powerful feeling to belong. It s inspiring people to do more than they thought they could. It s leading the way by rolling up your sleeves to accomplish a common goal. It s taking a passion and turning it into your vision. Belonging is what it feels like to work at Marriott. If this sounds like the place for you join us. The Marriott International HQ located at 10400 Fernwood Road Bethesda MD 20817 is currently hiring a Director Experience Design.Responsibilities include The Director of Experience Design drives a vision for how experiences should be designed for a product or products and management of a team committed to creating new product concepts and capabilities. They bring advanced skills in interaction design and mid-level skills in graphic design and prototyping in addition to exposure to other key user experience skills. They also are skilled at leading work and managing careers which will be key as they will manage a team of direct reports. They provide creative leadership and coaching to team members in an iterative process of concept development prototyping and gathering user and business feedback and make product user experience decisions based on this feedback and key metrics. They guide their team in producing creative and impactful solutions through ideation leadership and regular feedback and critique. They provide quality strategic thinking for a product and help ensure a shared vision across the enterprise to ensure a quality and cohesive user experience.EXPECTED CONTRIBUTIONS In the course of your work with Marriott s digital products including Marriott.com one of the top 10 revenue-generating web sites in the world you ll come in every day ready to tackle interesting challenging work. Here s what you ll be doing Working collaboratively with other UX leaders to develop the experience design practice and promoting best practices and user-centered design approaches that fit in well with the Marriott culture and needs Championing the creation and iteration of design strategies that help Marriott Digital Products leadership visualize a long-term organizational direction Aligning your decisions with high-level organizational strategies KPIs and business objectives working with other team leaders to translate these into team and personal goals Staying on top of the latest techniques being used by our direct competitors and other eCommerce sites and identify strategic opportunities for competitive advantages through benchmarking consumer insight market analysis and other techniques. You ll work primarily on a small Agile team where fast-paced iterative product discovery and execution are your daily bread and butter. Collaborating constantly trying new things and gaining quick user feedback you ll work with cross-functional team members to break solutions into small chunks implementable in individual sprints. Your experience vision is key to keeping the product on track and cohesive with the rest of the site.CANDIDATE PROFILE KEY TALENTS AND EXPERIENCE DESIRED Education and Experience Our ideal candidate has experience working on large transactional e-commerce and content-focused web sites. They have at least a Master s Degree in Experience or Interaction Design Graphic Design Information Architecture Library Sciences Human Factors Psychology Anthropology Branding or Marketing (or similar) or five or more years of equivalent experience in related field with proven track recordTo submit your application for this job please go to s marriott.taleo.net careersection 2 jobsearch.ftl lang en Marriott International is consistently recognized as an employer of choice around the globe by FORTUNE and Working Mother magazines DiversityInc Great Places to Work Institute and the CRF institute among others. Visit our newsroom to learn more news.marriott.comConnect and network online with us www.facebook.com marriottjobsandcareers www.twitter.com marriottcareers www.linkedin.com company marriott-international www.weibo.com marriottcareers Marriott International is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive culture. Marriott International does not discriminate on the basis of disability veteran status or any other basis protected under federal state or local laws.Application URL www.aplitrak.com adid c2FoaWwuZ3JvdmVyLjk2NDQwLjY0OTZAbWFycmlvdHQuY XBsaXRyYWsuY29t