Design Manager

Fuse Integration•San Diego, CA

4d•$120,000 - $175,000

About The Position

Who we are: Fuse builds innovative communications, networking, and computing solutions that improve the sharing of information, video, text, and voice among operators distributed throughout the airborne, maritime, and ground environments.  We are a technology firm creating in-house software, network and hardware solutions that support our noble cause of advancing warfighter capabilities with elegant, user-focused communications, networks, and software systems. About this role: As the Design Manager, you will own and mature the Design Language across products and programs. Leading a team of UX and Industrial designers, your ability to define, implement, and maintain a design system across the company as a whole will have a direct impact to our overall success. You will collaborate with leadership, strategy, marketing, domain experts, and engineers to provide value to the experience.

Requirements

8+ years of experience driving design for an organization
Experience in prototyping and turning prototypes into shipped products
Experience with Design Thinking processes and user-focused design principles
2+ years of experience in modern UI design software, such as Figma, Sketch, Principal, or Adobe
Must have a portfolio or repository indicating interaction and visual design skills with the ability to design quality graphical user interfaces
Experience in shipping and designing a web or mobile applications
Experience with visual authoring tools used by software developers, mechanical, electrical, industrial, and system engineers
Ability to self-motivate and consistently deliver results in a rapidly delivering and fast-moving organization
A firm grasp of the concept of servant leadership.
Positive attitude and optimistic outlook
US Citizen
Willingness and Ability to obtain US Secret Clearance. We can answer any questions regarding this process and walk you through the steps when obtaining it
Your own unique talents! If you meet some requirements of this position but not 100% of the qualifications outlined above, tell us why you’d be a great fit for this role based on your specific characteristics that align with our values and goals
Must be a nimble self-starter who is excited about technology and can think out of the box and suggest powerful new ideas.

Nice To Haves

Current understanding of technology such as web, mobile, and know the constraints, be willing to push the limits and apply creative solutions that result in great user experiences
A comfortable command of visual authoring tools used by software developers, mechanical, electrical, industrial or system engineers such as Visual Studio, Solidworks, or others
Experience with industrial design and shipping physical products
Familiarity with networking, network monitoring and networked systems
Experience with physical products for use in rugged environments (aircraft, vehicles, off-grid, camping, etc)
Experience with networked Linux systems is a plus
Experience working alongside an agile software development team, including use of project management software and integration with scrum, agile etc
Prior entrepreneurial experience is a plus

Responsibilities

Drive an end-to-end intuitive user experience across mediums (Web, Mobile, Industrial Design) and disciplines, with a focus on minimizing cognitive overhead of complex concepts
Discover and define interaction designs and UI patterns through engagement activities with our warfighter community
Lead a UI/UX team to define and deliver interaction design flows, scenarios, and structural layouts for both digital and physical product interactions
Lead an Industrial Design team to inform the manufactured design of our physical products
Partner with program management, hardware engineers, and industrial engineers to deliver thoughtful solutions for our tangible product lines
Bring a multidisciplinary point of view of product design to the conversation, bringing creativity and diversity of thought from a design point of view
Ability to self-motivate and consistently deliver results in a rapidly delivering and fast-moving organization

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Employee coverage is fully funded; a portion of dependents' coverage is funded as well
11 paid Federal Holidays
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Date of hire through second year: 10 days/year (accrued)
After two years: unlimited
40 hours of paid sick leave per year
401k with employer matching
Annual bonuses
Cell phone reimbursement: $100/month

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