The team you will be a part of

This role in summary

Your responsibilities will include

• Develop a sense of belonging and collaboration within the studio;
• Guide other designers and give effective design critique and direction;
• Exemplify design leadership behaviors and practices for effective teaming;
• Create compelling stakeholder relationships;
• Understanding the business in the region and influencing regional plans for product success;
• Encourages cutting edge creativity, and motivates your teams to go beyond current trends;
• Champion Visual Brand Strategies and Govern their execution;
• Continually seek and identify process improvements across the global Design organization;
• Write Project charters that identify scope and impact of proposed design programs;
• Oversee regional and category design work;
• Work to develop staffing plans, supervise performance and calibrate talent pools across Category Teams;
• Manage designers and their career development through effective coaching and mentoring;
• Support Design Org and Strategies with global coordination of the category and initiatives;
• Plan and maintain budgets for development spend and travel with Design Operations team;
• Set direction through excellent analysis and coordination of all design discipline strategies;
• Model Whirlpool core values of respect, integrity, diversity and teamwork.

Minimum requirements

• Excellent leadership qualities;
• Excellent communication, presentation and negotiation skills;
• Excellent Design sensibilities across physical and digital design products;
• Strong project planning skills, including proposals, work breakdown schedules, resource planning, and project reviews;
• Experience planning and executing ID work in accordance with accepted product development processes, e.g., phases and gates;
• Demonstrated skill applying industrial design practices, e.g., concept definition, development, refinement and delivery;
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills;
• Demonstrated experience working with cross functional teams and managing multiple projects;
• Strong desire to work collaboratively with others;
• 10 years of industry experience leading Product Design teams.

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