User Experience Director , UX Director

Job Description

Do you want to advance your career with the world’s first cloud company? Since 1998, Oracle NetSuite has been on a mission to deliver an agile, unified application suite that gives leaders a complete view into their business. Our team is growing, and we’re looking for people like you to help us make a global impact.

As the leading cloud business system, NetSuite includes financials, inventory management, HR, professional services automation, commerce, and more. Tens of thousands of customers all over the world trust NetSuite to give their businesses the visibility, agility, and control needed to make data-informed decisions quickly.

NetSuite is a place where you can build your career and have fun while doing so! We’re invested in our people, our customers, and the community. As part of Oracle, our benefits are second to none. Joining our passionate team means that you’re ready to take your career to the next level. With priceless learning opportunities, strong support, incredible innovation, and volunteer opportunities, NetSuite is committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels empowered and set up for success.

We're a global team of over 35 User Experience professionals at Oracle NetSuite, dedicated to enhancing the NetSuite product experience in various areas. We're part of a larger community of 250 Experience Designers, Content Designers, UI and Visual Designers, Researchers, Technical Writers, Videographers, Design Strategists, and other connected professionals across Oracle NetSuite.

• We're continuously improving our experiences through customer research and testing.
• We work efficiently, but also allocate time for innovation, brainstorming, and exploration.
• We believe highly energetic teams often generate the best solutions.
• We integrate experience design with product management and engineering throughout the entire process.
• We aim to delight our customers by designing and driving next-generation solutions that focus on insight, control, automation, and agility.
• We strongly value diversity and actively seek opportunities to enhance our team's diversity.
  
  
  

The scope of our opportunity is endless!

We need thoughtful, multi-faceted design leaders who understand what makes great products and can guide teams towards this vision.

We’re looking for a Director of Experience Design to join our Hire & Empower Group. You should be a Director-level leader with solid experience managing multi-disciplinary design teams; someone who lives and breathes B2B enterprise software spanning different user-types, industries, and markets.

We're seeking a highly collaborative and experienced designer who can lead, inspire, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. Proven experience in creating designs, working with user researchers, and finalizing results with product managers, engineers, and multiple stakeholders is essential.

Your profile should include a fundamental trifecta: product design oversight, people management, and stakeholder impact. You should be highly adaptive and ready to facilitate, inspire, or lead, no matter the project or people. While not expected to produce design artifacts, you should be fluent in modern software design language.

In addition to being a hands-on collaborative leader and mentor, you should have the following attributes:

• A strong balance of design strategy and analysis.
• Understanding that great design includes delivery and the importance of shipping.
• Ability to lead and mentor team members while maintaining an equal and collaborative work environment.
• Ability to structure and scale teams against priorities and future expansion needs.
• Advocacy for and practice of Design Thinking.
• A keen eye for designing for simplicity and the ability to instill it.
• Low-ego relationship building skills.
• Excellent storytelling and communication skills.
• Passion for innovating products, processes, and technology with the goal of delivering an extraordinary user experience.
• Technical UX expertise to serve as the senior point of contact for UX implementation issues.
  
  
  

The Role

You will be a key member of the Hire & Empower Group, an integral part of the Oracle NetSuite business solution. This group provides solutions to various aspects of our customers' businesses, including staffing, retaining, engaging, and paying employees, as well as fulfilling payroll related funds, allocating total labor costs, and ensuring reporting obligations. You will collaborate with all subject areas to achieve shared goals and optimize plans and strategies to design the best possible experience.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Leading a team of around 15 people including design management.
• Understanding the product strategy and outlining a plan for your team's success.
• Managing and prioritizing multiple projects of varying timelines, degrees of complexity, and scope.
• Facilitating collaborative working through proactive communication and short feedback loops.
• Partnering with Business and Engineering for accurate planning and thoughtful execution.
• Providing updates of ongoing initiatives and making business-changing recommendations.
• Providing guidance on design process, design feedback, and support.
• Nurturing career development and promoting a healthy work environment.
• Leading the hiring process for sourcing, acquiring, and onboarding new employees.
• Leading, motivating, and challenging team members by defining objectives and providing frequent feedback.
  
  
  

Qualifications/Skills:

• At least 4 years of experience in a senior management and leadership role.
• Experience recruiting, hiring, and training great talent.
• Highly organized, self-starter who works well with ambiguity, and can manage multiple complex projects in a fast-paced environment.
• A portfolio of design work - driven by yourself or a team that you led - that demonstrates the ability to design and ship successful products that solve real needs.
• Experience with lean UX, agile methodologies, and helping teams effectively apply them.
• Sound understanding of spread-out product ecosystems and commitment to organizational best practices.
• Experience partnering with Product Management and Engineering to work and implement trifecta models.
• Flexibility to work with geographically distributed teams.
• Experience working in Agile Development methodology.
• Payroll / ERP / Enterprise software design experience is a plus.
  
  
  

Next Step?

Oracle NetSuite is revolutionizing the way its customers conduct business.

If you're looking to make a transformative change in your career, apply now. Just click the apply button below and attach your CV/Profile and Portfolio references.

Career Level - M4

Responsibilities

As a director of the software engineering division, you will apply your extensive knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to provided design specifications. Build enhancements within an existing software architecture and envision future improvements to the architecture.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range: from $120,300 - $291,900 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
  
  
  

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

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