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Job Family: Research & DevelopmentReq ID: 398600Who we areBrightly, a Siemens company, is the global leader in intelligent asset management solutions. Brightly enables organizations to transform the performance of their assets with a sophisticated cloud-based platform that leverages more than 20 years of data to deliver predictive insights that help users through the key phases of the entire asset lifecycle. More than 12,000 clients of every size worldwide depend on Brightly’s complete suite of intuitive software – including CMMS, EAM, Strategic Asset Management, IoT Remote Monitoring, Sustainability and Community Engagement. Paired with award-winning training, support and consulting services, Brightly helps light the way to a bright future with smarter assets and sustainable.About the jobBrightly Software continues to grow and needs amazing talents. Reporting to the Director/Head of Product Design, this role will lead, manage, and grow an effective global team of product designers that strive for focus, growth, and impact in a collaborative product organization. As the Product Design Manager, you will be working closely with Product and Engineering leaders, as well as your design team, to ensure the successful execution of design projects aligned with the company’s goals. You will be responsible for guiding and fostering a data-driven, user-centered, and collaborative design culture.The Product Design Manager is a key contributor to the product leadership. You’re expected to skillfully untangle large, complicated, sometimes inexplicable client problems, business problems and technology problems, and find simple and elegant solutions collaborating with cross-functional teams including product management, engineers, and business stakeholders. You will bring in the voice of users including user insights, data science, customer support and market insights throughout your team’s design processes, leverage user feedback to iterate designs and drive continuous improvement, as well as present design solution to stakeholders with deep user empathy.Furthermore, just as important as your background is who you are as a person. Do you have a lot of energy for life? Are you upbeat and fun to be around? Do you love helping people? If so, you’re one of us already. We can’t wait to talk to you.What you’ll be doing· As the Product Design Manager, you lead, coach, and manage a team of global product designers, providing effective guidance and fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.· Conduct regular performance evaluations within your team, set team goals, and identify opportunities for professional development for team members.· Work closely with the leadership to manage design resources and talent recruitment, as well as to foster nourishing design culture across the team.· Execute and contribute to the design strategy to bring all products together into a consistent and holistic experience for all our clients, and drive alignment across product management and engineering.· Develop compelling design roadmaps for one or more product areas, and clearly communicate the rationales and expected outcomes across the organization.· Lead and execute design projects on your own, raise the bar of design quality, and set good examples for the team to learn and follow.· Advocate design system and reusable visual and interaction design patterns that can translate easily across multiple products in Brightly’s portfolios.· Actively participate in key initiatives to help shape solutions, influence, and interpret the product vision, and drive strategic execution of design with your team.· Implement and refine design processes throughout product development lifecycle, market introduction as well as continuous improvement. Ensure the team follow the best practices in user-centered design, usability, accessibility, and inclusive design.· Understand the technologies behind the products to have meaningful conversations with engineers, and to negotiate product roadmaps based on technical feasibility.· Challenge the status quo on creativity and the quality of design work across the team.· Champion UX and design by participating in and contributing to UX/Design Thinking initiatives within the company.· Collaborate closely with UX leaders across Siemens’ businesses, and foster design collaborations based on projects, skills and professional interests.Qualifications & Experience Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in design, human-computer interaction, or a related field. More than 3 years of people management and proven leadership of hiring, coaching, and developing product designers and UX professionals ranging from junior talent to world-class top-tiers. More than 8 years of experience designing complex enterprise products in SaaS platform, marketplace, or other software-led fields in an agile B2B environment. Asset Management product design experience is a plus. Experience in managing a global product design team, inclusively and effectively addressing challenges related to time zones, cultural differences, and remote collaboration. Strong user and business acumen to align design decisions with business goals, in a data-driven user-centered approach. Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch. Able to select right tools based on design situations. Skillful to work with product development, engineering teams, and business stakeholders, with excellent communication and collaboration skills. A consistent track record of launching habit-forming products that delight, innovate and scale. Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% of the time.What does success look like?
You are User-focused: You understand our users and work to ensure the user needs are met. You visit our clients and immerse yourself in their problems and challenges. You understand their work environments and how our products help them achieve their goals.
Design for users: You communicate directly and regularly with internal and external stakeholders to fully understand our users’ workflows, mindsets, and experiences using our products. You serve as a voice of the user, incorporating user feedback into the designs. You work closely with other User Experience and Design counterparts to deliver a high-quality user experience. You validate your design assumptions by testing the designs with the users.
You are highly collaborative: You actively listen to the feedback from colleagues in Product Design, Product Managers, Client Services and other management roles. You initiate collaborative design sessions with product and engineering to ensure the design meets the business requirements and is technically feasible.
Work well with software engineers: You share your designs and the “Why” behind the designs with engineers. You partner with the engineering lead to understand the technical feasibility of the solutions before the final design is created. You lead interactive design sessions with your Engineering counterparts in order to ensure that short- and long-term design goals are achieved. You provide the long-term design vision for the feature and help break it down into incremental changes that can be worked on independently.
Behavioral Competencies
Self-confidence: Confident, without an ego, to have both the conviction and willingness to make design decisions as well as the confidence to seek collaborative solutions
Strong work ethic: Ability to overcome setbacks and enthusiastically persist until ambitious goals are achieved—must be resourceful, creative, and innovative. Works independently and is passionate about the work. Highly creative and uses creative thinking to solve user problems.
Accountable: Results-oriented team player who leads by example, takes ownership, champions efforts with enthusiasm and conviction.
Great attitude: Creative, resourceful, collaborative, adaptable, fun, solid sense of humor and able to influence others.
The Brightly cultureService. Ingenuity. Integrity. Together. These values are core to who we are and help us make the best decisions, manage change, and provide the foundations for our future. These guiding principles help us innovate, flourish, and make a real impact in the businesses and communities we help to thrive. We are committed to the great experiences that nurture our employees and the people we serve while protecting the environments in which we live.Together we are BrightlyEqual Employment Opportunity StatementSiemens is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or local law.EEO is the LawApplicants and employees are protected under Federal law from discrimination. To learn more, Click here (https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm) .Pay Transparency Non-Discrimination ProvisionSiemens follows Executive Order 11246, including the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision. To learn more, Click here (https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/pdf/pay-transp%20EnglishformattedESQA508c.pdf) .California Privacy NoticeCalifornia residents have the right to receive additional notices about their personal information. To learn more, click here (https://new.siemens.com/us/en/general/legal/us-internet-privacy-notice-state-rights.html) .
