Senior Director, Design

Senior Director, Design

Description -

The Senior Director will act as the Head of Design responsible for driving world-class design across the organization’s product and service portfolio. This leader will redefine a design studio at the heart of the company’s innovation engine, creating cutting-edge, mid- to lower-funnel product-led assets, as well as asset development spanning Etail, Retail, sales kits, HP.com, digital media, newsletters, and more. The work will live across a global footprint, and this leader will also manage a large, globally distributed team. In addition to overseeing creative asset production, this role involves aligning all stakeholders on comprehensive asset creation needs.

 

Responsibilities: 

• Leadership and Management: Lead and manage a global studio team (inhouse and agency partner), set design systems, elevated the quality of creative (product & design led), foster collaboration, and ensure team & output success. We want someone to help build a best in class studio & design quality.  

• Design Strategy: Oversee execution of design strategies across product & platforms, and ensure alignment with HPs brand identity. 

• Quality Assurance: Deliver high-quality design solutions, maintain HPs standards of excellence in aesthetics, usability, process and functionality. 

• User-Centric Approach: Focus on how something looks, feels, and functions for users, while ensuring brand consistency. 

• Communications (Product) Design: Craft visual materials for HP's products and services, inspiring customers (internally and externally) worldwide 

• Cultural Catalyst: Foster an environment where design thrives, diversity is celebrated,  bias for action is encouraged and collaboration is second nature. 

• Collaboration and Influence: Partner closely with cross-functional teams, agency, product, marketing, and sales to bring HPs product/design assets to life.  

• Holistic Design Systems: Be the guardian of the brand VIS ID and design systems that ensure consistency and impact, globally 

• Digital First: Have a digital first mentality to design and asset creation 

• Product Led: Product led studio assets are the foundation of tech companies – we need someone that is product obsessed and can bring a high level of design and consistency. 

• Financial Management: A high level understanding of finical management, budgets and how to map to KPIs. 

• Global lens: Guides and oversees  design systems, best practices,  Standarization & direction to regional marketing teams  (USA, LATAM, China, India, etc.) to ensure a consistent global approach.