Job Description
Description
At Exelon, we've got a place for you!
Join the nation's leading competitive energy provider, with one of the largest electricity generation portfolios and retail customer bases in the country. You will be part of a family of companies that strives for the highest standards of power generation, competitive energy sales, and energy delivery. Our team of outstanding professionals is focused on performance, thought leadership, innovation, and the power of ideas that come from a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Exelon will provide you the tools and resources you need to design, build and enhance a successful career. We are also dedicated to motivating the success of our employees through competitive base salary, incentives, and health and retirement benefits.
Join Exelon and share your passion at a forward-thinking Fortune 150 company. Establish yourself in a place where you can truly shine and create a brighter, more sustainable tomorrow. Energize your career at Exelon!
PRIMARY PURPOSE OF POSITION:
Exelon’s Team Digital aims to rapidly
deliver reliable and innovative products and services that enable the business
and enhance our customer’s experience. Our team paves the digital path forward
for Exelon Utilities and beyond. We value our people and the diverse skills and
backgrounds they bring to collectively work towards Exelon’s goal of providing
clean, affordable and innovative energy to create a more sustainable future for
everyone.
The Design Manager will build, guide, and mentor a team
of UX/UI designers, content strategists, and UX Researchers to collectively
craft the digital experiences for the customers and employees of the largest provider of energy in America.
The Design Manager will strategically lead our design team in discovering user
needs, goals, and requirements for Exelon’s digital platform, and translating
these into customer journeys and product backlogs that drive outcomes for our
business, while serving the needs of our users.
You are a
proven strategic thinker, a compelling storyteller, and someone who will
flourish within a large organization. You are seen as a passionate role model
for other designers through your diverse experiences within the industry and
notable curiosity. You put your team’s needs, growth, and engagement first,
always.
PRIMARY DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- Lead,
coach, and engage top design talent to continuously perform and grow.
- Manage
design staffing, allocations, and forecasting in a strategic and thoughtful manner
in collaboration with product, platform, and project teams.
- Cultivate
relationships within IT and with business partners at all levels of the
organization.
- Advise
teams on design strategy to inform product and platform roadmaps.
- Advance
design processes, cross-functional workflows, and tools to help designers work
more efficiently and effectively together and with other disciplines to help
take digital solutions from concept to launch.
- Help
advise teams on the best methods for user research and user testing within
constraints.
- Practice
change management with team members and business partners.
- Maintain
and pipeline of design talent to meet organizational demands.
- Champion
“how design works” within an agile methodology and engage in exploratory
development and iterative processes.
- Day-to-day
work will be a combination of design product leadership, people management
& leadership, design opportunity nurturing, and design operations
management. The design manager may also take on design execution in some
instances to stay in touch with the work.
Qualifications
POSITION SPECIFICATIONS:
Minimum:
- 4-year Bachelor's Degree in digital design, graphic design,
human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience.
- 5+ years of relevant UX/UI Design
experience.
- 2+ years of Design Leadership
experience.
- Experience and proven competency
in communicating and influencing executives and other leadership.
- Ability to strategically balance
innovation, business needs, and customer needs to help shape product design strategy.
- Dedicated to continuous learning
and knowledge building.
- Have a keen perspective on what it
means to be a great manager and motivating leader.
- Experience coaching, providing
design direction, and being a strategic thought leader.
- Experience planning and leading
workshops to engage stakeholder groups.
- Ability to apply
Design Thinking principles to various scenarios.
- Ability to work in dynamic, often
ambiguous conditions requiring rapid transitions between collaborative and
individual work.
- Working knowledge of one to many
digital technical stacks and API constructs.
- Ability to work closely with
cross-functional teams in product and engineering.
- Strong problem solving and
analysis ability.
- Excellent interpersonal,
communication, negotiation and collaboration skills.
- Self-motivated and able to
prioritize and manage workload and meet critical project milestones and
deadlines.
- Ability to prioritize and manage
work to adhere to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work with remote teams.
- A portfolio demonstrating
experience with user research, experience strategy, interaction design, and user
interface design. Experience should include: Wireframes, user flows, process
flows, UI design, and design documentation for complex applications. Please
include portfolio link and/or attachment with application.
Preferred:
- Degree in User Experience, Design, Human
Computer Interaction, Fine Arts, or related major
- Leadership or Management Training,
Certification, or Degree
- Experience working on Agile teams
- Experience with the following is a plus:
- Front-end UI development
or variety of coding languages
- Design Systems
- Digital
Estimation
- Strategic
Roadmapping
- Illustration, animation
or motion graphics
Exelon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and employees or applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to: age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. VEVRAA Federal Contractor EEO is the Law Poster