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IWS User Experience Competency Center Manager (Design Section Mgr)
Job Number: 302281
HP is a leading global provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and business. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services, and imaging and printing. Our $4 billion annual R&D investment fuels the invention of products, solutions and new technologies so we can better serve customers and enter new markets. We invent, engineer and deliver technology solutions that drive business value, create social value and improve the lives of our customers.
HP is at the forefront of a revolution in how the world shares information, how we make sense of the ever expanding web, how we save memories and how we drive towards a greener tomorrow. We are rethinking everything in an effort to bring consumers an unrivaled experience - an experience so effortless and engaging that it empowers users every step of the way.
To achieve this unprecedented wave of innovation, we are recruiting World Class Design leadership to our IWS Design Team. Our Global Design team comprises Industrial, Graphics and User Interface Designers as well as Human Factors Engineers and Design Researchers. Together we work across the group businesses to drive innovative and creative solutions that can change the world, just a bit.
Scope
Create and lead a world-class Experience Design Competency for IWS
Primary Responsibility/Accountability
Typical Activities
Education and Experience Required:
Typically a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required. Masters degree preferred.
Critical Competencies to Drive Business Results:
Technical Team Project Management
Develops team strategy and direction, and oversees execution
Program Building/Development
Develops project/program strategy and direction
Operations Building/Process Improvement
Monitors, troubleshoots, and improves area-of-control operational processes to ensure optimum performance and practice consistency
Organizational Interface Management
Actively bridges technical and business cultures and perspectives to promote cross-organizational collaboration
Technical Excellence Development
Recognizes the interrelationship of individual and organizational excellence, and their contribution to technical leadership
Innovative Culture Development
Promotes and develops a culture of technical innovation
Technical Performance Optimization (TPM Mgr I)
Exercises technical and organizational leadership to inspire employee excellence
Supervision (TPM Mgr I)
Assesses and manages employee performance to ensure individual and group excellence
Change Management
Develops methods for supporting innovation and change across the organization
Problem Solving
Approaches problems in a rational manner using sound strategies that ensure comprehensive understanding and effective resolution
Company: HP
Location: San Diego, CA 92101
Status: Full Time, Employee
Job Category: Engineering
Occupations: Electrical/Electronics Engineering;General/Other: Engineering;Systems/Process Engineering
Career Level: Manager (Manager/Supervisor of Staff)
Industry: Electronics, Components, and Semiconductor Mfg;Computer Hardware;Computer Software
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© 2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The Hewlett-Packard Company is an equal opportunity employer,
dedicated to workforce diversity.
HP is at the forefront of a revolution in how the world shares information, how we make sense of the ever expanding web, how we save memories and how we drive towards a greener tomorrow. We are rethinking everything in an effort to bring consumers an unrivaled experience - an experience so effortless and engaging that it empowers users every step of the way.
To achieve this unprecedented wave of innovation, we are recruiting World Class Design leadership to our IWS Design Team. Our Global Design team comprises Industrial, Graphics and User Interface Designers as well as Human Factors Engineers and Design Researchers. Together we work across the group businesses to drive innovative and creative solutions that can change the world, just a bit.
Scope
Create and lead a world-class Experience Design Competency for IWS
- Is recognized as an innovative Experience Design leader and troubleshooter within the corporate design community, and an example of good ID leadership for the design community
- Act as an IWS role model for design sensibility and delivering solutions that meet customers social, emotional and function needs
- Manage and align the IWS Experience Designers and associated resource expenditures to optimize interaction design contributions across IWS
- Leads change initiatives to integrate the Experience Design contributions and methodologies into IWS product planning, development, and execution
- Effectively integrate experience design strategies into IWS strategies, plans, and operations
Primary Responsibility/Accountability
- Manage design budget development and alignment to IWS Design Strategy and Business Goals
- Optimize experience-design-related workforce planning and resource investment for IWS, across product lines and across all geographic locations
- Ensure experience design & design-research vendor/contractor and internal team productivity (measure = high productivity-to-cost ratios) across IWS
- Promotes institutionalization of standard experience design methods and processes across IWS
- Balances internal and external resources to optimize productivity while creating world-class designs and protecting corporate assets
- Fosters forward-looking development of experience design assets, core management capabilities, and career planning/ succession management
- Aligns IWS experience design efforts with corporate design direction, strategy, policy, and standards to drive institutionalization of corporate-wide standard design methods and processes
Typical Activities
- IWS experience design workforce planning to meet emerging customer & business needs
- Aligns experience design team work with prioritized business-related program/project investments
- Enforces group performance and productivity standards; and approves promotion readiness
- Plans and manages IWS experience design budget/investments
- Ensures communication of corporate mission, systems, and processes to IWS experience design team, as well as group alignment
- Fosters work environments that comply with HR requirements and that maximize contributions of all
- Invests in innovative workforce development strategies to enhance group capabilities
- Ensures accurate tracking of direct-report time and deliverables; approves requests; and determines exemptions
- Conducts group salary planning and approves promotion readiness
- Ensures IWS experience design & design-research vendor alignment and service purchases with business priorities as well as with corporate design policies
- Supervises the work of direct reports
- Establishes strategies for IWS experience design investment and resources
- Advocates for design and the optimum use of design resources in business planning and strategy development forums
- Leverages the relationship between customer insights, brand, brand architecture, and design strategies to ensure that customer insights influence strategies, plans, and offerings, thereby increasing relevance to customers
- Influences the integration of design attitude, design language, and design assets across IWS
- Collaborates with marketing to identify business opportunities based on customer trends that provide the greatest business and customer benefit
- Collaborates with Marketing, R&D and CA to set priorities and gather relevant customer insights for use in strategy, planning, and design of products and services
- Coordinates with operations, HR, Finance, Procurement, Facilities, and Legal as needed to use design more strategically
- Collaborates with corporate design to develop and maintain long-term, collaborative relationships with key experience design and design-research vendors
Education and Experience Required:
Typically a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required. Masters degree preferred.
5 years minimum managing/10 years overall experience minimum.
Critical Competencies to Drive Business Results:
Technical Team Project Management
Develops team strategy and direction, and oversees execution
Program Building/Development
Develops project/program strategy and direction
Operations Building/Process Improvement
Monitors, troubleshoots, and improves area-of-control operational processes to ensure optimum performance and practice consistency
Organizational Interface Management
Actively bridges technical and business cultures and perspectives to promote cross-organizational collaboration
Technical Excellence Development
Recognizes the interrelationship of individual and organizational excellence, and their contribution to technical leadership
Innovative Culture Development
Promotes and develops a culture of technical innovation
Technical Performance Optimization (TPM Mgr I)
Exercises technical and organizational leadership to inspire employee excellence
Supervision (TPM Mgr I)
Assesses and manages employee performance to ensure individual and group excellence
Change Management
Develops methods for supporting innovation and change across the organization
Problem Solving
Approaches problems in a rational manner using sound strategies that ensure comprehensive understanding and effective resolution
Additional Information:
- Travel Percentage: 25%
Company: HP
Location: San Diego, CA 92101
Status: Full Time, Employee
Job Category: Engineering
Occupations: Electrical/Electronics Engineering;General/Other: Engineering;Systems/Process Engineering
Career Level: Manager (Manager/Supervisor of Staff)
Industry: Electronics, Components, and Semiconductor Mfg;Computer Hardware;Computer Software
See all Hewlett-Packard / HP opportunities
© 2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The Hewlett-Packard Company is an equal opportunity employer,
dedicated to workforce diversity.
