·Grow and lead a group of Designers to successfully achieve product and user goals while building a best-in-class team that attracts the best develops employees and has an inclusive, winning culture. You are not responsible for managing people. However, we will be responsible for managing the work product of several other product designers. 

·Be a leader with a vision to help advance Extreme’s experience strategy globally and challenge others to change and adopt modern experience methodologies. 

·Full life cycle of systems and applications by working iteratively as a Design expert within a balanced team of Product Managers and Software Engineers to deliver incrementally while progressingtoward valuable outcomes. 

·Facilitate User Research initiatives across teams. 

·Develop User Centric Design practices consisting of end user’s needs, wants, and limitations, being the focus at all stages of the Design and Product Development life cycles. 

·Present Design Discovery & Framing with inputs from research initiatives and ideation testing prototypes while providing valuable synthesis and recommendations to the key stakeholders and users at Extreme Networks 

·Contribute to the design systems, data visualizations, and visual designfor feedback and testing to drive adoptable outcomes. 

·Lead cross-functional Consulting and Collaboration, demonstrating leadership by helping the team and stakeholders navigate product vision, high-level business priorities and desired outcomes. 

·Participate in Scoping, Design Thinking, Kick-Off, and other workshops with other team members eventually assuming the role of inception facilitator. 

·Lead design reviews to ensure the production of high-quality design artifacts across the team of designers. 

·Educates partners like product management and engineering on design practices.  

·Assist with recruiting and hiring. 

 

The Contribution: 

·Facilitating workshops, work independently and collaboratively within a balanced product team to designing complex multi-sided systems or enterprise software. 

·Guide product design decisions through user research, development, and iterative feedback. 

·Partner with Product Managers and/or design leadership on initiatives that impactallthe Design, Research, and Writing —including resourcing strategies, tool optimization and education, and process improvements that help us scale and deliver outcomes-based roadmaps across the product organization. 

·Identifycritical issues across our internal and cross-functional landscape and execute operational and strategic initiatives. 

·Establishing and improving design and DesignOps to DevOps workflows and processes to ensure we deliver excellence with predictability at scale. 

·Optimize our Experience Platforms, Tools (i.e. Figma, Miro, Monday, zeroheight), and Practices, how and when we use them. 

·Follow lean startup and pairing methods with UX Engineering to ensure what was designed and validated gets built. 

 

What you need to succeed 

·Able to apply empathy-first and a “yes, and..” mindset to get stuff done. 

·Deep experience in at least one of the following design skills: User Research, Interaction Design, Visual Design or Service Design. 

·Experience working within a product teams, including collaborating with designers, content strategists, researchers, UX engineers, and product management.   

·12+ years’ experience as a UX Designer or Digital Product Designer, creating and/or improving transactional websites or software products. Formal degree or training in HCI, Product Design, Interaction Design, Visual Design or related fields or equivalent job experience. 

·An exemplar of excellent communication, facilitation, coordination, and organization skills 

 

Extreme Networks, Inc. (EXTR) creates effortless networking experiences that enable all of us to advance. We push the boundaries of technology leveraging the powers of machine learning, artificial intelligence, analytics, and automation. Over 50,000 customers globally trust our end-to-end, cloud-driven networking solutions and rely on our top-rated services and support to accelerate their digital transformation efforts and deliver progress like never before. For more information, visit Extreme’s website or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.