Design Manager

Who we are:

Fuse builds innovative communications, networking, and computing solutions that improve the sharing of information, video, text, and voice among operators distributed throughout the airborne, maritime, and ground environments.  We are a technology firm creating in-house software, network and hardware solutions that support our noble cause of advancing warfighter capabilities with elegant, user-focused communications, networks, and software systems.

About this role:

As the Design Manager, you will own and mature the Design Language across products and programs. Leading a team of UX and Industrial designers, your ability to define, implement, and maintain a design system across the company as a whole will have a direct impact to our overall success. You will collaborate with leadership, strategy, marketing, domain experts, and engineers to provide value to the experience.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Drive an end-to-end intuitive user experience across mediums (Web, Mobile, Industrial Design) and disciplines, with a focus on minimizing cognitive overhead of complex concepts
• Discover and define interaction designs and UI patterns through engagement activities with our warfighter community
• Lead a UI/UX team to define and deliver interaction design flows, scenarios, and structural layouts for both digital and physical product interactions
• Lead an Industrial Design team to inform the manufactured design of our physical products
• Partner with program management, hardware engineers, and industrial engineers to deliver thoughtful solutions for our tangible product lines
• Bring a multidisciplinary point of view of product design to the conversation, bringing creativity and diversity of thought from a design point of view
• Ability to self-motivate and consistently deliver results in a rapidly delivering and fast-moving organization