Digital Design Lead

We are seeking a Digital Design Lead to join our creative team, partnering with a global leader in pharmaceutical innovation. In this role, you’ll be joining a dynamic team that’s pushing the boundaries of digital health. As part of the organization’s innovation engine, you’ll operate with the agility of a startup but with the backing of a global leader, focusing on the rapid development and prototyping of breakthrough ideas.

As a Design Lead within the Incubation Lab you'll set the vision, leading cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional work across a diverse range of project. Design Leads are responsible for strategic planning, guiding concept development, providing creative direction and coordinating with other leads to ensure design teams consistently deliver high-quality design solutions that align with business objectives. As a senior team member you will lead by example, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and quality for teams of talented designers, researchers and technologists. 

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and inspire creative professionals to deliver exceptional digital solutions that elegantly unify form and function and are a joy for our user 
• Oversee the creative process from concept to execution, ensuring projects are delivered on time and aligned with strategic business objectives.
• Act as a liaison between the project teams and stakeholders, communicating design rationale, managing expectations and translating feedback. 
• Work closely with Design and Senior leadership to define project scopes and resource needs, ensuring projects are well-staffed and manageable. 
• Provide mentorship, guidance, and constructive feedback to nurture the professional development of designers on the team. 
• Stay ahead of trends, emerging technologies, industry standards, and best practices to help our design practice continuously evolve and improve. 
• Help teams understand when and how to push the boundaries of creativity, quality and innovation while still maintaining consistent design standards for the organization. 
• Demonstrate a high level of executive accountability, flexibility, initiative, and the ability to prioritize resource workload to efficiently deliver results. 

Qualifications

• 10 years’ experience in visual design with experience designing for digital mediums. 
• Bachelor’s Degree in Design, such as Digital Design, Interaction Design, Visual Communication Designer, Human Computer Interaction or a similar field. Equivalent practical experience is also acceptable. 
• Exceptional portfolio of experience design work spanning multiple design projects and mediums, with on interface or screen-based experiences.  
• A high level of intellectual curiosity, strong analytical, problem solving, and investigative skills paired with a passion for innovation. 
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, possessing the ability to make complex ideas simple and consumable for a broad range of collaborators. 
• A creative and collaborative spirit to build strong relationships and effectively navigate conflict with peers and partners.