Digi Lantern - Director - Experience Design & Strategy

(Bachelor degree required, MBA preferred. Proven strategic planning leadership required. Must possess strong team orientation and have previous demonstrated successes leading/facilitating agency/team strategic thinking capabilities. Intuitive about people, brands and advertising/communication. Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication, presentation, and influence skills.

Experience

15+ years of work experience within an advertising environment; Healthcare background preferred

Job Description

Key Job Responsibilities

As a Director of Strategy and Visual Experience Design, you will be the driving force in the growth and direction of DigiLantern as a team. You will work closely with our team of designers & strategists as well as collaborating frequently with Digilantern creative, technology, and smart products teams.

The Job:

- Collaborate with clients and internal teams to understand their concepts, assets and components, the strategy, the user flow, navigation and user experience, and accordingly, design high-level interactions.

- Translate business requirements, end user needs and input from cross-functional teams into differentiated design solutions.

- Develop and mentor more junior members of the UX team.

- Leverage design thinking process across various project sizes and timelines.

- Stay updated on emerging industry trends and the competitive landscape to provide insight on ways to improve visual design, usability and website functionality and holistic experiences.

- Conduct user testing and qualitative sessions to improve engagement, usability and affinity.

- Passion for user experience, interaction design, service design and information architecture.

- Ability to wireframe or design user interfaces from existing wireframes.

- Capable of team building and mentorship.

- Capable of working on multiple projects simultaneously.

- Ability to analyze customer needs and define strategies for meeting them.

- Ability to present work and rationale for internal and external stakeholders.