User Experience Manager

Company: 7-Eleven
Location: Irving
Posted on: June 21, 2022

Job Description:

Who we areImagine working in a place where continuous improvement and innovation is celebrated and rewarded; where fast-paced, high-impact teams come together to positively drive results for one of the largest & most iconic brands in the world. As the only rapidly growing retailer, you may know us as your friendly neighborhood store. You probably know our familiar name, have seen our pervasive logo, and have tried our highly sought-after products, such as Slurpee - and Big Bite -. "Brain Freeze" is a 7-Eleven registered trademark for our 53-year old Slurpee - and with over 77,000 stores globally (more than any other retailer or food service provider), we sell over 14 million a month. But there's a lot more to our story and much more left to be written. We are transforming our business, ensuring we are customer obsessed and digitally enabled to seamlessly link our brick and mortar stores with digital products and services. At 7-Eleven the entrepreneurial spirit is in our DNA and has been ever since our inception 90+ years ago. It's what drove us to invent the convenience industry in 1927 by envisioning how a simple ice dock could provide household staples such as milk and eggs to better serve the needs of our customers. Today we are redefining convenience and the customer experience in big ways...we are fundamentally changing our culture and we want talented, innovative, customer obsessed, and entrepreneurial people like you to come make history with us. How we leadAt 7-Eleven we are guided by our Leadership Principles.

• Be Customer Obsessed
• Be Courageous with Your Point of View
• Challenge the Status Quo
• Act Like an Entrepreneur
• Have an "It Can Be Done" Attitude
• Do the Right Thing
• Be AccountableEach principle has a defined set of behaviors which help guide the 7-Eleven team to Serve Customers and Support Stores. About This Opportunity
  As a UX Manager you will manage a team of UX designers focused on building the next wave of innovative products and services. UX Manager will be partnering with R&D Product and Technology leaders to define and drive high quality design deliverables across the product design initiatives. Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• Provide UX program oversight of all the R&D innovation space initiatives
• Lead a group of UX designers, inspire and mentor them, serve as a champion of their work, guide them, and elevate their efforts to the next level
• Collaborate with key stakeholders, product, and technical leaders to gain alignment and shared understanding of the product vision and key goals
• Contribute to strategic decisions that shape the future of the 7-Eleven customer experience
• Partner with key stakeholders, product, and technical leaders to gain alignment and shared understanding of the product around its vision and key goals
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, and articulate risks, trade-offs, and recommend priorities based on balancing customer needs, business needs and technical constraints
• Gather feedback from others, and provide coaching and mentoring of direct reports
  Qualifications and Skills:
  • Creative problem solver who leans into collaboration to create delightful experiences
  • Strong business acumen and experience in managing multiple stakeholders and leadership expectations
  • Strong expertise of the user-centered design process, methods, principles, and skills
  • Excellent leadership, communication, project management, and organizational skills
  • Knowledge and understanding of Agile, Lean UX and Mobile First
  • Proficient in all areas of UX design including interaction design information architecture, visual design prototyping and user research
  • Experience working on a product from inception to shipment
  • Solid proficiency in design, prototyping and collaboration tools including Sketch, Figma, Adobe suite, and Miro
  • Degree will preferably be in HCI or Computer Science. Experience will be considered in lieu of degree

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