Product Design Manager jobs in Somerset, NJ

When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing...

As part of Verizon’s Experience Design team, you’ll have the chance to impact one of the largest consumer presences in America, supporting millions of daily customer interactions across an omnichannel ecosystem and a growing consumer product portfolio. With global offices and hybrid work environments, the team is assembling the brightest designers, design strategists, and product managers to collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams, shaping the future of the customer experience. 

As a member of the Verizon Design Systems team, you will drive the continued evolution and adoption of a world-class, multi-channel Design System comprising a visual language, an interaction language, a verbal and audio language, patterns for use, and coded templates and components for implementation. The Design System team provides creative direction, interfaces with teams across our B2C, B2B, Media, Technology, and Marketing divisions, and is accountable for the successful development and integration of the Design System into hundreds of millions of dollars of development work that enables billions of customer touchpoints. 

As Design System Product Management Senior Manager, you will play a key role in building the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a portfolio of products/services with an end goal of creating a scalable and sustainable business line and meeting Verizon’s strategic objectives.

Your day-to-day responsibilities may include: 

• Driving product strategy, stakeholder alignment, and business case development.

• Leading the development, prioritization and management of product roadmaps with key stakeholders.

• Providing direction, guidance and translates business needs into functional and technical requirements for designers, engineers and other key stakeholders. This might include performing analyses, defining user stories/acceptance criteria, working with teams to develop solutions to meet these requirements and to test and deliver experiences with the customer in mind

• Actively exploring user context, and engaging in target user activities when possible.

• Participating in insight-gathering activities (informal or formal, primary or secondary) and creating design solutions that leverage user insights.

• Actively researching competitive products, industry trends, and topics. 

• Staying updated on Verizon's business, strategy, and organizational structure. 

• Effectively designing solutions within Verizon's business context and revenue model. 

• Maintaining a working knowledge of UI standards for common platforms (iOS, Android, Web). 

• Working within Verizon's front-end and back-end technology constraints and capabilities. 

• Communicating the current project plan, goals, and expected outcomes.

• Articulating user, business, and/or technical reasoning for detailed design decisions in critiques or presentations.

• Providing mentorship in areas of expertise and ramp up new team members, with a focus on craft and process.

• Identifying project needs and engaging stakeholders in conversation to fully understand needs.

• Presenting work and engaging in constructive dialogue with stakeholders to understand the context of tasks and ensure strong design rationale. 

• Understanding the motivations and drivers of partners and stakeholders.

• Leading a cross-disciplinary team including agency partners in problem-solving through the facilitation of design activities combined with hands-on work while planning an overall approach in partnership with leaders.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience. 

• Six or more years of relevant work experience.

• Experience managing a product.

• Experience driving a product strategy.

• Experience with Agile software delivery environments.

• Experience with common design software (Figma, Adobe, etc.).

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Design.

• Portfolio of professional work.

• Experience with design systems.

• Contributed to multiple design programs or shipped products with a large user base.

• Contributed to overall product success.

• Experience with Fortune 500 organizational environments.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

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Equal Employment Opportunity 

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