Executive Director, Design - News & Entertainment

This is a Full Time Job

Location: Glendale, California, United States; Town of Bristol, Connecticut, United States; New York, New York, United States

Job Summary:

Executive Director, Design – News & Entertainment

Our Team

The Disney Entertainment & ESPN (DE&E) Technology Design team thinks beyond what is possible today. They discover, disrupt, and chart a course to where our fans and consumers will be next. Design brings the Disney magic to life by building digital customer experiences via the entire portfolio of both consumer-facing products and internal products and tooling. This includes Sports, Entertainment, News, Streaming and Enterprise Products and Experiences.

News & Entertainment

The DE&E Technology News & Entertainment Design team delivers transformative consumer-facing product innovation across Mobile, Desktop, and TV apps across our news and entertainment brands, including ABC, Marvel, National Geographic, and more! This mission includes delivering brand-specific consumer experiences, building cohesive user journeys within a product family, partnering across Product, Engineering and other business partners, and working with Design team members directing rapid visual concepts, producing high fidelity visual design. We are a multi-disciplinary design team where you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with many design groups and specialties to create innovative products that people love to use.

Job Summary

As the Executive Director, Design – News & Entertainment, you are the head of the News & Entertainment Design team and are responsible for building, managing and mentoring a multi-disciplinary design team. You are passionate about a best-in-class craft, storytelling, guiding design processes, mentoring the team, and collaborating with leaders of other Design, Product, Engineering, and Business teams to create innovative experiences across all of DMED's products.

Roles & Responsibilities
• You will be responsible for managing, leading, inspiring, and growing the News & Entertainment Design Team
• You possess a clear vision of the future of News & Entertainment Design and empathy and have the courage to pursue forward-thinking design solutions
• You will provide day-to-day design leadership that builds a shared understanding of the holistic user-centric intersection of design, content, business, and engineering
• Your design work sets an example that all designers want to follow
• You will be a design activator, working to deliver a platform vision and strategy that balances revolutionary framework projects along with a plan for evolutionary, iterative updates to realize a more extensive vision
• You will operate as the primary point-of-contact on critical strategic initiatives for design leadership and cross-functional partners
• You will be expected to partner with a variety of teams, inspiring confidence that your team will deliver compelling user experiences that are cohesive, inclusive, and well informed on time.
• With fellow design directors, you will contribute to the creative ethos of the design team's culture, community, processes, diversity, and inclusion while setting new standards in excellence

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Design/Creative experiences, including 7+ years of management experiences
• You have managed, lead, and inspired teams of designers
• You have resource planned and staffed projects and groups based on the available skills to deliver excellent design solutions on time
• You have a broad and comprehensive understanding of different systems, theories, and practices of design leadership
• You have a deep understanding of the needs for internal experiences and how to design enterprise experiences
• You have identified and set platform strategies, envisioned complex user interactions, and inspired teams to push the boundaries of what's possible
• You have brought cross-functional teams together
• You are hungry for innovation, eager to challenge the status quo
• You have influenced, defined, and scaled complex company-wide platform design strategy in a fast-paced environment
• You can communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization
• You have managed multiple stakeholders and priorities simultaneously

The hiring range for this position in California is $199,000 to $266,800 per year and in New York is $208,400 to 279,500 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.