- Tokyo, Japan
- Full-time
- Director
- Tokyo, Japan
- Full-time
- Director
We are responsible for coordinating and leading user research within the organization. We work closely with product management to ensure that user needs and expectations drive feature ideas throughout the software development life cycle. We are responsible for creating and maintaining a team of design and usability professionals, ensuring that product management and development are receiving the desired services and service levels. We lay downtime strategic vision for user-centered design, we ensure that the product achieves the user’s specified goals with efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfaction by establishing user-centered analysis, design, best practices, and standards within the organization.
Responsibilities:
The Director of User Experience is responsible for creating and maintaining a team of design and usability professionals, ensuring that product management and development is receiving the desired services and service levels, and setting the strategic vision for user-centered design at the organization.
- Develops, maintains, and continually improves processes for providing research needed during feature/product ideation and prioritization.
- Develops, maintains and continually improves processes for how designers and usability analysts engage with feature teams during feature/product development.
- Ensures that research, design and usability test roles are adequately resourced.
- Ensures that UX staff is delivering high-quality and timely research, design, and usability engineering services to product management and R&D.
- Tokyo, Japan
- Full-time
- Director
Minimum Qualification:
- 7+ years experience in user interface design, information architecture, usability testing, human factors, and other related disciplines within a consultative or corporate environment.
- 7+ years experience managing design and usability practitioners.
- Proven ability to instill usability as a core value within a large software development organization’s culture.
Outstanding communication, organization, time management, and interpersonal skills. - Thorough knowledge of the software development lifecycle.
Employee hiring and retention experience.
Preferred Qualification:
- Bachelors degree in a related area such as psychology, human factors or HCI.
Interested parties please send your application to our recruiter via email directly and quote the job reference number if any.