Design Chapter Leader - Digital Buildings

DB Design Lead

Senior Design Leadership Position - Digital Buildings Design Manager

Position Overview

Join Schneider Electric as our Digital Buildings Design Engineering Leader - a pivotal leadership role at the intersection of industrial design excellence and digital transformation. Leading a distributed team of designers across multiple regions, you will report directly to the CTO of Digital Buildings with a dotted line to the global design leader for Digital Energy.
This strategic position bridges our mission of helping customers achieve decarbonization, resiliency, and efficiency through digitalization with our commitment to creating consistent, impactful user experiences.

Leadership & Management Responsibilities

Executive-Level Leadership: Drive strategic design direction for the Digital Buildings business unit while collaborating with senior leadership level stakeholders.

Team Development: Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing distributed design team across multiple time zones and cultures.

Career Advancement: Foster professional growth through structured goal setting, performance reviews, and personalized development plans, embrace Education/Exposure/Experience style growth for the team.

Cross-Functional Leadership: Establish productive partnerships with Offer Management, Engineering, and Business stakeholders.

Organizational Influence: Advocate for design excellence at the highest levels of the organization, drive cultural transformation.

Strategic Delegation: Balance personal involvement with appropriate delegation for team growth and production efficiency, hands on leadership.

Industrial Design & Technical Requirements

Industrial Product Experience: Demonstrated expertise in complex B2B industrial software design, preferably in building automation or energy management systems.

Technical Fluency: Deep understanding of building automation systems, industrial control interfaces, and energy management platforms

Global Design Systems: Lead adoption and evolution of Schneider's Quartz design system while contributing industrial specific patterns and components.

Technical Integration: Bridge design excellence with technical feasibility, working closely with development teams.

Data-Driven Design: Implement sophisticated measurement frameworks and analytics to drive continuous improvement in industrial applications.

Core Responsibilities

Translate complex industrial workflows into intuitive user experiences

Align Digital Building design patterns with Schneider Electric's brand and global design systems

Define experience strategies that balance technical complexity with usability

Ensure business objectives and design goals are mutually reinforcing

Provide strategic design input to product roadmaps

Lead design critiques and quality assurance processes

Balance discovery and delivery resources within development schedules

Advocate for user-centered approaches while understanding technical constraints

Qualifications

Leadership Experience: Minimum 5 years leading/managing design teams, with proven success growing and developing team members

Design Expertise: 15 years of comprehensive design experience, with significant focus on industrial software systems

Education: Bachelor's degree in design, HCI, or equivalent; Master's degree preferred

Portfolio: Demonstrable experience leading complex industrial software design projects

Industrial Domain Knowledge: Background in building automation, industrial controls, or related technical domains

Communication: Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts across all levels of the organization

Language: Fluent written and spoken English

Additional Valuable Experience

Master's degree in HCI, psychology, or design strategy

Experience implementing and evolving corporate design systems in industrial contexts

Track record of documenting best practices and building design playbooks

Active engagement in design communities with focus on industrial applications

French language proficiency (But not needed)

Position Details

Travel: 10-20% travel requirement

Location: North America (Montreal, Boston) or Europe (Lund)

Work Arrangement: Hybrid office/remote, coordinated with team needs, aligned with site attendance policy

Career Path: Management role with growth opportunities across Schneider businesses

This role offers the opportunity to lead transformative design work with meaningful impact on global sustainability and energy efficiency goals, join our dynamic and growing Digital Buildings team and make an IMPACT!

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.

Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?

When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our  IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us.

IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.

We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.

Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric – apply today!

€36 billion global revenue
13% organic growth
150 000 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.

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