UX Design Lead (in Bangkok)

About Us

• The world's hottest mobile messaging platform, offers free text and voice messaging, voice calling and group chat with up to 200 people, integrated with various interactive elements such as Stickers, Home & Timeline and Official Accounts
• Since its release in June 2011, the cross-platform mobile messenger has been releasing a series of add-on apps that range from games to an anti-virus app
• Today, LINE has become a hot cultural icon with 500 million users in 230 countries

Responsibilities

• Manage product designers and UX designers; support them as they drive their personal and professional growth
• Influence and interpret the product vision to drive strategic execution of design through the team
• Work with designers to ensure we have a deep understanding of user needs and that their design solutions fit into a consistent product experience
• Actively participate in key initiatives to help shape and guide solutions
• Challenge status quo on creativity and quality of design work across the team
• Be willing to get hands-on, partnering closely with other designers and/or engineering teams
• Collaborate closely with your product, insights, and tech counterparts to shape a data-informed vision for the user experience of our products and can translate this into an inspiring design strategy for your team
• Promote team’s design work to drive alignment across the other teams
• Proactively look for and solve high-level issues and opportunities
• Lead design, through best practices, attention to detail, and sometimes unconventional thinking, to ensure impact

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product design experience building consumer digital products
• Experience managing, mentoring, and growing a team of designers
• A keen eye for detail and ability to give effective direction and feedback to designers on the team
• Experience leading and delivering end-to-end design across multiple projects and platforms
• Experience leading product direction and strategic thinking with the ability to develop product goals, identify opportunities, and make decisions based on data and the impact to people and the company
• Experience collaborating closely with product owners, engineering, research, data science, and business teams to explore and define product opportunities
• Experience with different UX processes and research methods, both qualitative and quantitative
• Excellent problem-solving skills and familiarity with technical constraints and limitations
• Experience working in fast-paced environments
• Ability to represent work to a broader product team and other leaders, clearly and succinctly articulating the goals and concepts
• Strong communication and diplomacy/stakeholder management skills in English
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