Design Director - Frog Italy Milano

Design Director - Frog Italy
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

Why join frog?

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**What will you be doing?

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This is a leadership role at frog.

You are expected to help frog grow its reputation, business and people through _Project Leadership, Design Leadership & Management, and Business/Account Development.

_This role has the opportunity to be fully remote!

- Project Leadership:_

You will oversee 2-3 projects at a time, or act as a day-to-day engagement leader, (sometimes with Executive Director oversight on key strategic accounts) and guide teams of designers, technologists, program managers and strategists.

You will build relationships with clients while advising and supporting the frog project team.

You will work across every stage of the project lifecycle to ensure that the concepts and design decisions are sensitive to both the needs of users and our clients' businesses.

You will chart a path forward together with your frog team, even when information is ambiguous and the project challenging.

You should be eager to involve clients in the design process, highly responsive to feedback, and excited to present your team's ideas in front of executives.

Your typical project responsibilities will include:

**We want you to have**:

- 10+ years of professional human centered design 'thinking & doing' consulting experience with specific experience in one or more areas of the product development lifecycle, as a Visual Designer, IXD, Service Designer, Product Designer, Design Strategist or Experience Designer

- Proficiency with contemporary research, design and prototyping tools and methods

- Affinity with frog's values, and a passion for creating products that meet peoples functional and emotional needs

- An outstanding track record as a design leader for experience strategies, design systems, products, services, and customer experiences that delight customers/users and achieve business results

- High peer, end-user, or client satisfaction with the work products that you created

- Strong leadership and collaboration skills, with the ability to guide high performing teams using persuasion and influence (rather than command and control)

- Strong presentation and storytelling skills

- Willingness to travel for research, project delivery, and client meetings

- Business level ability in English

**It would be a bonus if you had**:

- A university degree in a relevant design, business, technology, or social science discipline

- Experience working in a variety of organisations (start-up, corporate, agency/consultancy)

- Academic, professional, or life experience from outside the design field that enriches your perspective as a designer

- Published thought leadership, with a track record of presenting and teaching in public forums and a social media presence

- A second language (and every additional language is a plus!

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**Equal Opportunities at frog

frog is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law.