Senior Manager, UX Design

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  • London  
    London, United Kingdom
    perm  
  • Company
    Expedia Group  
    Start date
    ASAP  
    Duration
    n/a  
    Wage
    Undisclosed
  • Closing date
    18 January 2023  
    Posted on
    18 November 2022  

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Are you looking to be part of a world-class enterprise design team dedicated to crafting incredible user experiences? Would you like to drive impactful work that helps millions of people see and enjoy more of the world? Are you passionate about solving hard problems and creating order out of uncertainty?

At Expedia Group, our mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere. Within the Expedia Group, the Experience Design organization (XD) is our global, cross-disciplinary team uniting user experience design, content design, and research to enable innovative, relevant, and cohesive experiences that serve the needs of all our travelers, partners, and agents.

We’re looking for a motivated Senior Manager, User Experience & Design to help us envision and deliver delightful customer experiences. We work on a global scale for multiple brands, across devices and platforms, in a diverse and collaborative environment.

What you’ll do:

Problem Definition and Product Strategy:

  • An influencing voice in strategic roadmap discussions at program level.
  • Mentor teams on synthesizing insights in complex problem spaces.
  • Drive the creation of compelling customer experience vision, strategy and success metrics at program level, and connect related initiatives.

Design Practice:

  • Facilitate ongoing collaboration with stakeholders with varied perspectives to align goals and ideas.
  • Role model and mentor for exemplary visual and interaction design practice and hold yourself and others accountable to deliver high quality experiences.
  • Take a whole systems approach to analyzing and solving customer problems.
  • Champion appropriate usage and growth of design systems.

Customer Centricity:

  • Help your team apply and adapt design and research processes to manage large/complex problem areas.
  • Use both qualitative and quantitative insights of customer research and data and business analytics to drive design solutions.
  • Encourage team members to remain customer centric.

Communication:

  • Create communication materials using storytelling and persuasion techniques that build trust with partners and establish long-term relationships.
  • Coach your team to use feedback effectively.
  • Guide others on best practices and approaches for clear, concise and organized communication.

Develop Talent:

  • Recognize staff potential and guide employees in developing skills by recommending appropriate training and sources of information.
  • Create an environment for team effectiveness, where strengths are known and built upon and learning is shared to build capacity.
  • Share domain and industry knowledge between cross-functional teams.
  • Seek mentorship opportunities for direct reports.

Build Effective Teams:

  • Lead the shaping of an inclusive, innovative, candid and trusting culture in your team.
  • Obtain resources needed to reach individual and team goals.
  • Prioritize team morale and productivity, celebrating team accomplishments.
  • Promote collaboration among team members.
  • Encourage others to cooperate and coordinate efforts.
  • Attract and select diverse and high caliber talent.

Who you are:

  • Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience; Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience or related Design field or relevant experience is applicable.
  • Experience in formally line managing teams.
  • Understands user experience design, research, and content strategy processes and practices to a level that enables strong collaboration with peers.

About Expedia Group:

Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) powers travel for everyone, everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good, we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success, while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers.

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Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

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