Find Work
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
— Steve Jobs
Principal Product Designer - CDI Design
The Walt Disney Company • Los Angeles, United States of America 🇺🇸
Lead the creation of user-centered design solutions for products used by millions of Disney customers. Drive the end-to-end design process and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to inform and validate designs.
Responsibilities
- Drive organizational progress as a trusted influencer among Design, Product, and Tech leadership.
- Set industry standards in interface design, constantly raising the bar and contributing to tools and techniques.
- Demonstrate expertise in guiding projects on design and product strategy.
- Drive competitive analysis, problem definition, and articulation of the product vision.
- Lead a large domain, fostering meaningful relationships across functions and codifying best practices.
- Orchestrate shipping strategy for complex projects, ensuring efficiency in design workflows.
- Inspire and elevate designers in interaction design and prototype use.
- Contribute to design systems with technical, business, and interaction design leadership.
- Expertly present to large audiences, focusing on platform design, cross-brand systems thinking, and brand expression.
- Advocate for design as a discipline and represent 'capital D' Design as a strategic function.
- Utilize qualitative and quantitative research to affect company strategy.
- Guide landscape analysis, hypothesis development, and user testing, fostering a culture of inquiry.
- Build and document value-driven behaviors, promoting a healthy, value-driven culture.
- Collaborate inclusively, stewarding complex collaborative events and fostering cross-functional culture initiatives.
- Deliver clarity in complex project descriptions, design critiques, and documentation.
- Keep teams informed, seek feedback, deliver bad news with empathy, and mentor communicators for effective communication.
- Advocate for the betterment of design practice and represent Design as a strategic function.
- Play a central role in defining and communicating the vision for the entire product experience.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, or experience in a related field.
- 10+ years of focused practice in product design or a related field.
- Proven experience as a design leader with a track record of driving organizational progress.
- Expertise in design fundamentals, content strategy, and interaction design.
- Strong leadership skills with a focus on delivery, collaboration, and inclusivity.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to advocate for design at various levels.
- Mastery in research, strategy impact, and fostering a culture of inquiry.
- Visionary thinking with the ability to define and communicate a cohesive vision for the product experience.
Key Skills
- Design leadership
- Design strategy expertise
- Delivery leadership
- Interaction design mastery
- Presentation and advocacy
- Research and strategy impact
- Team culture and inclusivity
- Communication clarity
- Advocacy and vision definition
Benefits
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
- Bonus and/or long-term incentive units
About The Walt Disney Company
Imagine a career at Disneyland Paris. From the moment you arrive, you’ll be immersed in a dynamic and multicultural team of talent that welcomes our Guests every day to create magical souvenirs they’ll cherish forever. Since 1992, we’ve opened our Park gates to 320 million visitors and made the dreams of millions come true! You too could be part of the magic! The success in delivering these projects and their stories is thanks to our team of 15,000 Cast Members who live Walt Disney’s vision: they bring imagination and wonder to our guests while seeing their own careers flourish. And this is where you can get involved. We have 500 different job profiles across our corporate and operations departments, so whether you’re interested in the operational roles within our Park, maybe to work part-time alongside your studies, or if you’re interested in Marketing, Finance, Engineering and our other corporate roles, we invite you to apply to us! Discover our many career opport
🔔 Never miss similar opportunities
Get notified when new design leadership jobs that match your preferences become available. Set up personalized job alerts to stay ahead of the competition.