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S.POINT is seeking a Senior Designer to join its team in Shan...Job Description
S.POINT is seeking a Senior Designer to join its team in Shanghai.
Responsibilities
Define creative design challenges well through balanced accurate grasp of client’s business strategy and product/service strategy
Leading the creative team in defining the direction, style, and methodology for design innovation challenge
Manage quality and tenor of the creative design work
Drive the potential creative futures of the creative team and the broader s.point design and innovation consultancy
Work with business and brand strategy leaders to position accurately the clients’ exact challenge, ensuring with these colleagues that all on client projects are reading, interpreting, and reacting, with the best synergy and consistency, to the strategic, logistic, and creative needs of the client
Responsible for the design role and voice of new business pitches, proposal development, and project initiation and planning
Take a creative leadership role in important clients, and establish great working relationship with key decision makers in these client organizations
Oversee the creative output of junior designers
Monitor and drive an ideal balance in the available skills and personality of junior designers towards the needs of our customers and long term growth strategy of the firm
Make available to and motivate junior designer to utilize the best and latest creative methods and tools to continuously sharpen their competitive edges
Coach and mentor more junior members of the team
Identify and implement process improvements to meet project and team needs
Manage day-to-day operations of the design team, including setting priorities, assigning resources, and ensuring project goals are achieved
Oversee simultaneous projects from inception to completion, reviewing project plans, designs, and deliverables
Requirements
4+ years of experience practicing in and managing design teams
Talented in creativity and diverse design disciplines
Familiar with UI/UX methodologies and remain up-to-date with relevant technology developments
Strong awareness of brand and marketing management
Good understanding of China market and consumer trends, sensitive to industry and field information
Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills, including but not limited to the ability to engage effectively a diverse set of audiences from C-level executives, branding/marketing/product managers to junior staff in client organizations
Outstanding leadership, communication and people management skills
Proven ability to mentor and develop skills in direct reports and junior designers and practitioners
Strong knowledge and experience of innovation driven by market and user insights, design processes and project management
Versed in productive negotiation and coordination with multiple groups and disciplines
Experienced in and enjoying the dynamism at a still fast growing company in the rapidly changing China market
Bachelor degree or higher in a design-related discipline.
