Senor Director, Ux Design Legal Tech

Landis, SK - Zug, Switzerland

Job Description

\\n Are you a curious, smart, self-driven design leader who loves working in collaboration to deliver moments of delight for customers? Are you a conceptual visionary thinker who leads teams at scale, to bring ideas to life in new and inspiring ways? Are you excited by the challenge of turning complex problems and constraints into simple elegant solutions that exceed customer\\xe2\\x80\\x99s needs and expectations?

Thomson Reuters is building out its Design organization and we are looking for leaders to help us build upon our Digital transform. As a leader in our Design Org, you will lead Design across our entire Legal Practice, from Legal Research through LegalTech as we drive a unified experience for legal professionals.

As the Sr Director of User Experience Design, you are expected to:
  • Lead Managers, Seasoned Designers and Design teams who are responsible for driving and implementing a design strategies across our most complex applications and problem spaces
  • Partner closely with product and engineering partners to create unified end-to-end solutions that transcend multiple products/segments while creating and articulate a compelling platform vision for customers
  • Create technically and financially feasible integrated Design solutions based on a testable NorthStar vision you help create
  • Create a culture of Innovation through hands on and enablement activities
  • Socialize and align a wide variety of cross-functional stakeholders to drive decision-making and deliver your creative vision
  • Define success criteria for product lines and inspire the team to effectively execute
  • Ensure that the customer voice and Product Vision is embedded across teams and that work is prioritized and trade-offs are made based on customer and business value.
  • Remove roadblocks as needed and guide team through ambiguity, ensuring decisions are grounded in data
  • Coach and empower teams \\xe2\\x80\\x93 including outside your own - to deliver outcomes and drive high performance, instilling Thomson Reuters mindsets and behaviors and measuring progress against team OKR\\xe2\\x80\\x99s
  • Drive innovation and change initiatives
  • Partner closely with UX Research leadership to help identify iterative improvements in the product.
  • Extend platform vision across your product portfolio
  • Evangelize and serve as a spokesperson for the Design organization
  • Build new teams, attract and develop great talent, and build the next generation of leaders across the Design org \\xe2\\x80\\x93 not limited to your own team
In order to be successful in attaining these goals, you will:
  • Be a strategic thinker and storyteller who influences decisions and effectively persuades
  • Influence at all levels; leveraging networks across multiple teams to drive results
  • Bring best practices from external and internal sources and teaching others to adopt these practices, elevating the capability of the function as a whole
  • Ensure diversity of thought in teams; encouraging robust dialogue to surface diverse and opposing viewpoints and holding self and team accountable to commit to decisions once made
  • Continuously look for opportunities to improve business or process and challenge team to do the same
  • Look for insights both inside and outside the organization, serving as a credible and important voice with customers and in their market.
  • Empower your teams to deliver on expectations and grow team performance
  • Actively drive goals around talent development and diversity and inclusion, demonstrating progress
  • Confidently present and recommend trade-offs; communicate changes in delivery expectations
  • Understand and make decisions around budget and resourcing
  • Demonstrate a customer obsessed approach, a passion for taking action and drive to continually create impact
  • Have a global mindset with significant experience designing and delivering world class digital experiences.
  • Be dedicated to building a world-class design team to support the mission of the organization.
To be considered, you have these qualifications:
  • 15+ years of application/product design experience
  • 5+ years of design leadership/management/team leadership experience
  • Hands on experience operating at Principal design level or higher
  • A robust portfolio of previous product design work that illustrates some hands-on work but mostly work performed through your teams. Portfolio showcases a proven track record of solving complex design problems with design led thinking that exhibits a clean, polished design aesthetic coupled with a passion for pixel perfection, consistency, and usability.
  • Demonstrated success navigating complex organizations and ability to be persuasive/influential with a wide range of diverse audiences.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience interfacing with high level stakeholders.
  • A Bachelor\\xe2\\x80\\x99s degree or higher in UX/HCI or related field, or significant equivalent experience
More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.

We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world\\\'s businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world\\\'s most trusted news organization.

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.
To learn more about what we offer, please visit careers.thomsonreuters.com

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DISCLAIMER

The above information in this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we\\xe2\\x80\\x99ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world\\xe2\\x80\\x99s most global news services \\xe2\\x80\\x93 Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

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As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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  • Job Id
    JD1601182
  • Industry
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  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
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  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Landis, SK - Zug, Switzerland
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