Design Manager
Schneider Electric 's purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. At Schneider, we call this Life Is On .
We are driving digital transformation by integrating the most advanced energy and automation technologies. We connect products, control platforms, software, and services throughout the lifecycle of our customers' activities to the cloud for integrated management of residential housing, commercial buildings, data centres, infrastructures, and industry.
Schneider Electric is seeking a design leader to help grow, motivate, and manage a small team of design professionals. This individual will report to the digital design director for industrial products within the global design organization. The team is fast growing and want to do so healthily. Our mission to oversee digital design across Schneider Electric, infuse design culture into the company, and scale these efforts through systems and collaboration. We create consistent, enjoyable, and memorable experiences with meaningful outcomes around sustainability, decarbonization, and optimizing the switch renewable energy. This is design work with a purpose.
This role is expected to lead by example across the UX design process. You and your team will help translate design research direction into compelling concepts, build experience prototypes and mock-ups, refine and focus with feedback, and define details for development. Successful candidates will understand the value and application of a design system and how to successfully consume, extend, and contribute as stewards of the Schneider Electric brand. As a design leader, this role is expected to grow and maintain the quality of their team's work through design critiques, inspiring curiosity & creativity, and ensuring collaboration with other functions. As a people leader, you are also responsible for nurturing your team member's careers through goal setting, performance and development reviews, and generally being a great human that people love to work with. We value your experience and expect this role to craft great design work if called upon. You will need to identify appropriate times to delegate for the purpose of production or developmental opportunities and when to personally drive and set a standard.
Your mission:
User-centered design. Apply different tools and methodologies required for the problem, timing, and context. Be transparent and guide colleagues in product management and engineering across stages of the design process.
Facilitation and co-design. Prepare and lead workshops to align teams and converge on a common product and service vision. Include others and motivate with curiosity, a constant interest to learn, and default to doing.
Culture and advocacy. Be a representative of design and user advocate within Schneider Electric. Promote our digital ecosystem, strengthen the brand, and form a unified experience.
Systems thinking. Expand and adjust perspectives to understand the problem space. Empathize with users and colleagues and appreciate a diversity of inputs.
Data driven. Know how to use and analyze qualitative and quantitative data in decision making. Design interactions that empower users with information and collect data as a natural part of the experience.
This job is for you:

• >12 years of design experience plus >2 years as a design manager
• Bachelor's degree in a design field, human-computer interaction, fine arts, or equivalent experience.
• Examples of regular collaboration across business functions.
• Empathetic to external users and internal team members across functions.
• Equates team member growth, learning, and success as your own.
• Strong portfolio that demonstrates user-centered design approach & process, systems thinking, emphatic storytelling, and definition of design work through development.
• Experience collaborating on research synthesis and translating findings into concepts.
• Exceptional abilities to communicate complex information in written, visual, and verbal forms.
• Use of Figma/Figjam, Dovetail, Maze design tools.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

...and even better:

• Master's degree in human-computer interaction, psychology, design strategy.
• Experience working with enterprise or industrial software products.
• Experience working with and applying enterprise design systems.
• Documenting best practices, building design playbooks, and mentoring others.
• Engagement in design communities and building design culture.
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What to expect

• Full time position.
• 10-15% travel opportunity.
• Location: North America, remote-possible if PST or MST, preferably Victoria, BC or Boulder, CO.

Let us learn about you! Apply today.
You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.

Why us?
At Schneider Electric we're committed to creating a workplace that gives you not just a job but a meaningful purpose in joining our mission to bring energy and efficiency to enable life, progress and sustainability for all.
We believe in e mpowering our team members to reach their full potential, fostering a sense of ownership in their work.
We embrace inclusion as a fundamental value, ensuring that every voice is heard and valued. We value differences, and welcome people from all walks of life. We believe in equal opportunities for everyone, everywhere.
If you want to be part of a company where your contributions truly matter, where you are empowered to make a difference and where inclusivity is valued, we would love to hear from you.
Discover your M eaningful, Inclusive and Empowered career at Schneider Electric.
€34.2bn global revenue
12% organic growth
135 000 employees in 100 countries
#1 on the Global 100 World's most sustainable corporations
You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled
Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best.
We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate and we 'embrace different' as one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do. This extends to our Candidates and is embedded in our Hiring Practices.
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