Manager User Experience Design

Honeywell Honeywell · Industrial · Pittsford, NY +1

Manager of User Experience Design for Honeywell security products, focusing on leading a design team, driving user-centered principles, and collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver enterprise-level applications.

What you'd actually do

  1. Set the standards and drive efforts concerning the usability, accessibility and interactions of our enterprise applications. This includes managing the day-to-day design processes, including wireframes, user journey diagrams, and UI specifications, measuring and assessing the usability of deployed applications, and applying effective design processes. These processes include regular customer engagement, user testing and validation, and adopting user-centered design philosophy across all levels of the product teams.
  2. Ownership of the product experience. Along with conventional design activities, the UX Manager is responsible for holistically unifying design, engineering and offering management. Through facilitation and collaboration, the UX Manager will unite entire delivery teams with common values and goals that balance expectations of all stakeholders. Day-to-day work includes product discovery and feature grooming activities where leadership through influence is required.
  3. Grow and sustain the UX discipline by actively leading and shaping the UX design team. This role must manage team members’ career growth, ensure job satisfaction, challenge and grow skillsets, adopt best practices, and balance timelines and priorities across all resources.

Skills

Required

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Science
  • Software Engineering
  • Computer Engineering
  • Usability
  • Interaction Design
  • Accessibility
  • WCAG conformance
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree
  • Product ownership experience

What the JD emphasized

  • Bachelor of Science or higher in Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering
  • Solid understanding of human-computer interaction principles
  • 5+ years contributing to large-scale enterprise-level applications
  • 2+ years designing for modern web and native mobile applications
  • Leading, mentoring, and coaching team members, from entry-level to senior roles
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence key stakeholders and create consensus