Lead Product Designer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Digitas is where connected experiences bring brands to life.

Like the unicorn, Digitas is a rare beast, with strategy, technology, data, creativity and media under one roof. We believe in a different approach to designing experiences for brands.

The future lies in combining the memorability of brand thinking with the empathy of design thinking, as we believe brands should strive to create Total Brand Experience. We create connected experiences through our capabilities in - Experience Consulting, Platforms & Products, Precision Media and CRM, Comms & Content.

Digitas operates in 42 offices in 27 countries and is expanding rapidly with 3500+ employees and is part of the Publicis Groupe.

Job Description

The creative department is the heart of the agency. A place where our diverse crew of designers, makers, writers and doers come together to make great ideas happen. We are curious, collaborative and confident – delivering beautiful work that goes above and beyond our client’s expectations.

Data is at the core of what we do, and we use this to guide our thinking, and help transform our clients businesses.

Qualifications

We’re looking for someone who will help us create digital experiences that are functional, beautiful and inspirational. Someone who will take ownership of a range of projects from initial briefing, through to delivery. As a part of a team that includes Creatives, Strategists, Designers and Technologists, you will help create new experiences that inspire users and exceed client’s expectations.

Responsibilities

  • Show Digitas and our clients what good, modern product design processes and practices look like
  • Help our clients understand their customers by employing a wide range of qual, quant and data gathering techniques, in collaboration with our in-house strategists, researchers and data analysts 
  • Bring an entrepreneurial mindset to projects and products, continually looking ways to generate value for our clients and their customers
  • Tell compelling stories about possible futures to get our clients excited about what their business and products could potentially be
  • Facilitate workshops as part of discovery and early product definition – using your experience of lean UX approaches, design sprint and prototyping methods. 
  • Create user journey maps illustrating user needs, pain points, and business opportunities 

Skills & Experience

  • You will have a solid body of work demonstrating both strategic and craft skills
  • We don’t expect you to be amazing at everything – we want to see a set of core skills and the ability to collaborate and learn to enhance the skills that aren’t as strong.
  • Being commercially and entrepreneurially minded is key for this role.
  • You have worked in cross functional Agile teams to build and iterate a range of great products – websites, apps, B2B tools or services
  • You have experience facilitating workshops and leading meetings with a range of stakeholders – from extremely senior stakeholders to junior members of your team
  • You have the confidence and gravitas to explain and present your ideas convincingly
  • Your people skills are as important as your craft skills. You have lead individuals or teams and helped them be their best selves and deliver great work
  • You have developed key leadership skills. These include communication and presentation skills, growing and mentoring junior members of the team, dealing with conflict, etc
  • You are excited about pitching. This means employing your full range of skills to tell a story that gets clients excited about how their world could be and how they could connect with their customers. 

Additional Information

Please note that Digitas is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation or gender identity.

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