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"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
— Steve Jobs
Provide creative and strategic leadership for design and throughout product development while advocating for user-centered design best practices. Lead efforts across the entire product suite, collaborating with product and engineering leaders to drive the evolution of Dayforce's design approach.
Responsibilities
- Provide creative and strategic leadership for design and throughout product development
- Advocate for user-centered design best practices within product development
- Partner with product and engineering leaders across Dayforce, including at the senior and executive level
- Lead, guide, and mentor- collaborate with product designers in pushing the user experience forward. Challenging the boundaries of the new design system for web and mobile
- Spearhead the development of experience-led product vision across the Dayforce suite
- Provide vision and strategic direction for key 'horizontal' activities such as Design System, Mobile, and Consumer Applications
- Create strategic design deliverables such as strategy decks, customer journeys, visions of future experiences and evangelize these cross-product "blueprints" across teams
- Build and maintain a framework for establishing and assessing design quality
- Connect design with business value
- Work with design, research, program management, and product leaders on process for product development
Requirements
- Experience leading the design of complex products, services, and/or product suites (complex meaning: multiple platforms or channels; multiple audiences to address; complicated information and data to manage and make clear)
- Portfolio of work inspired by user research demonstrating a mastery of product design strategy, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, articulation of design rationale, strong communication and storytelling skills
- Proven success delivering large-scale, high-quality multichannel experiences across mobile, web, and beyond
- Experience leading a program of work across multiple teams through full product development cycles in discovery, concepting, prototypes, specifications, and enablement across design teams
- Experience working with executives on crucial, fuzzy, ambiguous, 'Big Picture' strategic challenges that touch many teams
- Strong facilitation skills and experience employing a variety of methods and techniques to run complex design-led workshops
- Experience in providing guidance and mentorship to designers
- Deep expertise in journey and service mapping, storytelling, product design, problem framing and solving design problems
- Strong presentation skills that showcase ability to articulate strong design rationale, connect design decisions to broader strategic and business decisions, and compel executive stakeholders to action
- Experience designing for inclusivity and for diverse audiences (international audiences, multi-language localization, accessibility for people with disabilities, etc.)
Key Skills
- Experience leading the design of complex products, services, and/or product suites (complex meaning: multiple platforms or channels; multiple audiences to address; complicated information and data to manage and make clear)
- Portfolio of work inspired by user research demonstrating a mastery of product design strategy, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, articulation of design rationale, strong communication and storytelling skills
- Proven success delivering large-scale, high-quality multichannel experiences across mobile, web, and beyond
- Experience leading a program of work across multiple teams through full product development cycles in discovery, concepting, prototypes, specifications, and enablement across design teams
- Experience working with executives on crucial, fuzzy, ambiguous, 'Big Picture' strategic challenges that touch many teams
- Strong facilitation skills and experience employing a variety of methods and techniques to run complex design-led workshops
- Experience in providing guidance and mentorship to designers
- Deep expertise in journey and service mapping, storytelling, product design, problem framing and solving design problems
- Strong presentation skills that showcase ability to articulate strong design rationale, connect design decisions to broader strategic and business decisions, and compel executive stakeholders to action
- Experience designing for inclusivity and for diverse audiences (international audiences, multi-language localization, accessibility for people with disabilities, etc.)
About Dayforce
Dayforce makes work life better. Everything we do as a global leader in HCM technology is focused on improving work for thousands of customers and millions of employees around the world. Our single, AI-powered people platform for HR, payroll, talent, workforce management, and benefits equips Dayforce customers to unlock their full workforce potential and operate with confidence. To learn how Dayforce helps create quantifiable value for organizations of all sizes and industries, visit dayforce.com.
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