Design Lead

Job Purpose

We are looking for a senior and self-driven individual who will help shape the future of design

The Job

As a design lead:

• Inspire product and design teams to deliver meaningful and user-centered experiences
• Infuse lean and agile mindset and practices in product teams
• Overcome the inertia and challenge existing business practices resulting from norms and habits to achieve impactful improvements
• Surface assumptions and address them quickly
• Communicate research insights and value of design to stakeholders
• Define research approaches and plans to obtain useful data and insights
• Synthesize issues and frame strategies to define meaningful product directions
• Design experiments to test assumptions
• Conceptualize products experiences to deliver key value proposition
• Run design critique sessions to provide directions for improvements
• Define metrics for measuring products success
• Monitor post-launch performance and lead improvement efforts

As a design leader

• Lead the change with insights and creative solutions
• Lead the growth of design and design ops practice
• Contribute to the content strategy and design practice
• Introduce toolkits, tools and processes to grow the design practice
• Reflect opportunities and improvements in rapid and iterative low-fi thinking
• Guide the development of hi-fidelity pixel-perfect and interactive experiences
• Pay attention to accessibility in designs
• Establish the motion design practice
• Stay abreast of design trends and inject new design ideas and practices
• Lead experiments to validate design concepts
• Communicate design principles, direction and specifications to engineers
• Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.
• Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.
• Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.

Our Requirements

• 6+ years of UX design experience
• Strong work portfolio that demonstrates systematic and creative design thinking as well as a deep understanding of UI design and UX formalities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Good understanding of information design, information architecture and user psychology- user interface
• Proficiency in graphic design, motion graphics, digital art, a sensitivity to typography, color, layout, and a general awareness of materials/textures
• High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.
• Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.

Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.

We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviors, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.

We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.