digital designer lead - ST

Starbucks • Nashville, TN

2d

About The Position

This critical role will be responsible for developing a system in collaboration with our design team, as well as establishing the framework for design system documentation. In addition, this role will serve as a subject matter expert to designers, engineers, and product managers for all things related to the design system.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience of UX design for digital products
• 3+ years experience designing products using a design system
• 1+ years experience overseeing the development or maintenance of a design system
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Self-starter able to work in an agile environment with other disciplines in quick design loops
• Experience mentoring other designers and giving actionable design feedback
• Experience leading cross-team efforts and collaborating with engineering, design and product management.
• Experience designing for iOS
• Familiarity with relevant front-end technologies (HTML/CSS/Javascript) and their affordances and limitations
• Solid communication skills, written and verbal
• Experience with design languages and human interface guidelines and are familiar with frameworks, components and patterns -- ideally as both a designer and system creator.
• Used to dealing with ambiguity and love solving ambitious problems in an agile, iterative manner.
• Strong knowledge of interaction and visual design as well as familiarity with information architecture.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and have experience aligning teams and stakeholders by persuasion and influence.

Responsibilities

• Define the core elements of the Starbucks Retail Design System, specifying UX, visual, interaction and motion elements as well as documenting behaviors and usage guidelines.
• Cultivate internal knowledge around the design system by serving as a subject matter expert to contributing teams who are building additions to the design system.
• Utilize collaborative leadership skills to facilitate the adoption of the design system and ensure the best outcome for stakeholders.
• Work within a product delivery team to understand the experience we are building for our partners. The result of this work will be used by every store partner in North America.
• Be comfortable thinking in terms of systems, connecting and making relationships across multiple teams and experiences.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed