UI Design Manager

Position Summary

AutoZone's Digital Experience team works to create extraordinary journeys for our customers across a variety of digital products including websites, applications and enterprise software.

As a UI Manager you will lead a cross-functional team by being a strong advocate, a collaborative partner, and someone that can help your team grow, develop and master their craft.

Key Responsibilities

-Provide constructive feedback to team members.

-Work with product teams and stakeholders to balance user needs with business goals and objectives.

-Facilitate creative brainstorming sessions and workshops to enhance the quality and value of designs.

-Know the latest emerging trends in design and technologies and push the team to drive innovation.

-Coach and mentor team members through regular 1:1's, annual reviews and individual development plans.

-Conduct regular assessments and recommend improvements to designs, organization, and processes.

-Develop schedules, forecast designer's workloads, and approve timesheets.

-Meet with leadership to discuss staffing needs.

-Advocate for customer first.

-Develop an environment that encourages collaboration, efficiency, and consistency.

-Strong Communication skills

-Ability to define and refine processes to ensure teams execute efficiently.

-Working knowledge of Adobe CS, Sketch, Zeplin, Abstract

-Experience designing mobile app and responsive websites with current portfolio showcasing strong layout, typography, color theory, and strong problem-solving skills.

-Solid understanding of user-centered / human-centered design, UX / UI design, industry standards and trends, usability standards and platform capabilities

-Experience working in an Agile environment.

-Enjoys working in a fast-paced environment

-Previous experience implementing design systems, patterns and guidelines.

-Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

-The ability to educate business stakeholders on the overall design process.

-Ability to thrive in a highly collaborative environment.

-Experience designing mobile apps and responsive websites.

Education and/or Experience

-Minimum of eight (8) years of experience in design, UX, UI, interaction design or similar field

-Minimum of two (2) years of experience leading design teams or design projects

-Bachelor's degree in related field or 5 + years relevant work experience

-Master's degree in related field

-Experience managing remote teams.

-Fundamental knowledge of HTML, CSS, JS

-Knowledge of information architecture

-Knowledge of SEO

-Proficiency in English and Spanish