Design Team Lead | Digital Natives

The mission

Work with our team of UX researchers and UX/UI designers on various digital products and services
Organize, facilitate design team-related meetings (regular meetings, design critique, team building events, 1-on-1’s)
Establish and manage the learning path of the design team, both at team level and individual level: facilitate goal setting, plan creation, monitor progress
Set up and continuously improve our standards and processes in design tool usage, team operation, and the creative work
Provide mentorship to design team members in your areas of profession
Manage team health: understand team members’ motivations, maintain trust, respect, and team spirit in the team, encourage feedback giving
Represent the design team toward other teams at Digital Natives: help resource planning, strategy building, work with other team leads to improve our cross-team processes
Match design team capabilities with upcoming project needs, identify skill gaps, assist in hiring and onboarding the right people

Participate in the UX research work (to the extent of your professional focus)
Create user personas, goals and journeys, based on the research and interviews provided by UX researchers (to the extent of your professional focus)
Craft wireframes and UI designs covering the flows agreed upon, present it to clients and discuss necessary iterations (to the extent of your professional focus)
Assist in harmonizing clients’ business goals with the users’ needs
Participate in various in-house projects, goals of which are to improve our team, workplace, and communication
Assist in creating project proposals, represent the design team at client meetings

Experience in managing design teams
Solid understanding of the entire design process in an agile development project, and the Design Thinking methodology
Knowledge about how a design team works, how it is effective and motivated
Strong experience in an area of UX (UX research, strategy, UX or UI design) that you can demonstrate with a portfolio
Good understanding of the UX areas that are not your professional focus
Performed UX research before
Experience in holding workshops to clients
Mastered at least one UX/UI tool, such as Axure, Adobe XD, Sketch, Marvel, UXPin, InVision, Figma, ...
Fluent English communication skills (written & spoken)

Open: you enjoy working in a team, learning from others and exchanging feedback
An initiator: proactive, always searching for new ways and ready to step up to a new challenge
Lean and Agile: you have a real ‘get-things-done’ and ‘can-do’ attitude
Empathetic: even under pressure, you resonate with how other people feel and think
Well-organized: you take responsibility for your decisions and manage your time and efforts easily (and don’t leave your dishes on the kitchen table ;) )

Agency background
Prior knowledge in coding, software design
Understanding of modern web/mobile technology stack: mobile ecosystem, basic hosting environments, backend - frontend trends (single-page apps, APIs, frameworks, etc.)
Worked with startups

Using the latest tools and methods - we use modern frameworks and are always keen to try out new technologies
A first-row seat to see how trendy digital products are made - from the idea of modeling, UX, UI, development, testing to the very product itself
Interesting projects - our projects vary from tourism to proptech to fintech and smart city, so there is always something unexpected
Meeting a bunch of enthusiastic people - and teamwork in a multicultural environment
Encouraged self-management - room to manage your own time and estimate your work
Support to sharpen your skills - dedicated time and yearly budget for learning and self-improvement, coaching for soft skills and English lessons
Health insurance with multiple benefits
A welcoming workplace - breakfast from the fridge, lunches together, thrilling foosball matches and weekly massage