Descrizione dell'Azienda/Istituzione/Organizzazione
Design Group Italia is a design studio based in Milan, Italy with offices in New York and Reykjavik. Our close-knit, multicultural team of 70+ professionals works globally with Fortune 500 companies and progressive start-ups alike, designing innovative solutions that become part of the everyday life of millions of people all around the world. We are an element of Alkemy, one of the fastest-growing consulting and digital services groups listed on the Italian Stock Exchange.
Descrizione della posizione lavorativa
What you’ll do:
- Interact directly with Clients and Stakeholders clients (there are no PMs most of the time), to understand their needs and plan the projects scope;
- Follow the complete lifecycle of a design project, from drafting the initial proposal to managing the resources and making sure that the best possible results are delivered on time;
- Understand users through interviews, observations, workshops (online or in person) and generate the requirements for the product with an eye also on the business and technical needs;
- Generate design solutions, from the initial sketches to the final interactive prototype;
- Test the solutions with users to validate or find ways to improve the design;
- Present your designs to the team and Client, be able to communicate your research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale both verbally and visually;
- Take part as a contributor to interdisciplinary project teams that includes a wide range of other designers (from industrial product designers to lighting designers, from CMF designers to food designers), project management, psychologists, mechanical engineers, business and brand strategists, and developers;
- Follow the definition of the strategy on new projects, the activity plan, staffing, budget and the presentation of the offers;
- Contribute to the growth of the team and to the mentorship of junior designers.
Descrizione del profilo ricercato
What you’ll bring:
- Strong experience in managing design team and stakeholders;
- Advanced design learning path (master’s degree or equivalent);
- A strong understanding of users' needs, usability and accessibility standards, good eye for details and a passion for beautiful, coherent and clean User Interface Design;
- Ability to understand and map complex business processes, and define strategies to introduce new digital tools in existing ecosystems;
- Very good knowledge of spoken and written English: we work with clients from all over the world, and our team is also made of people from different countries;
- Up-to-date knowledge of the necessary tools: we use Miro, Figma, Adobe CC, but you are free to use others if you need to achieve more specific tasks.
Nice to have:
- Technical knowledge of the development process for web and mobile apps: you won’t write any code, but you might have to talk to the developers and be able to do so in an efficient way;
- Experience in creating and facilitating Design Thinking and co-creation workshops;
- Ability to develop personal projects and strong curiosity for the design world;
- Knowledge of Agile principles, values and methodologies;
- Knowledge of other languages besides English.
Descrizione dell'esperienza richiesta
At least 5 years of experience working on digital products.