Team Lead - Product Design

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Alteryx unleashes the power of data analytics to help people everywhere solve business and societal problems. As a global leader in analytic process automation (APA), Alteryx unifies analytics, data science, and business process automation in one, end-to-end platform to accelerate digital transformation. Organizations of all sizes, all over the world, rely on the Alteryx analytic process automation platform to deliver high-impact business outcomes and the rapid upskilling of their modern workforce. Alteryx is headquartered in Irvine, California, and has additional offices across the globe.

Overview :

The Alteryx, Inc. UX team is growing and we are looking for a Team Lead, Product Design, to lead our newly created team in India. Work location is in Bangalore.

As team lead for UX Design you are responsible for overseeing a team of Product Designers, which in turn create the designs for Alteryx’s products and features. As the leader of this team, you will partner with other Team Leads and UX Leadership to help drive the future of Alteryx design. As a UX leader, you will foster relationships with your product managers and other departments, guide communication, collaboration, and conflict resolution, further product knowledge, and help nurture the career growth of the team.

You will build a collaborative environment to implement processes, help drive User Experience improvements, and work with UX leadership to help develop strategies to improve the effectiveness of the UX team. We believe in transparency and cooperation and will look to you to manage issues with your team, partnering with UX Leadership on effective resolutions when they affect the overall stability of the organization.

This role is considered to be partially an individual contributor role accompanied with team leadership and management responsibilities. You will report to the UX Manager located in Prague, Czech Republic, who will help provide clear direction on priorities, processes, and principles to instill and drive with your team.

Please provide a portfolio when applying to this position.

Position Details :

As an effective Team Lead, you will :

• Leverage industry expertise to coach, motivate and provide direction and feedback to UX associates.
• Provide career guidance and counseling in the form of annual goals (as aligned with organizational OKRs) coupled with personal & professional development.
• Hold weekly 1 : 1 with team members, maintaining an environment of transparency, support and open communication.
• Guide Product Designers in proper functional flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes, UI / interaction Design, and UX Research opportunities.
• Build strong partnerships with leaders across the organization and evaluate requirements to create effective UX strategies that deliver strong business impact and align to the company's overall strategy.
• Wor with the UX Research team to coordinate research roadmap.
• Ability to collaborate with product managers and prioritize work for the team and individually so that quality expectations are met while maintaining reasonable timelines in an Agile environment
• Manage a team of UX Designers, who are responsible for developing user flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes that translate business needs and user stories into intuitive and engaging experiences.
• Leverage best practices from Design and UX disciplines and encourages teams to engage in and lead Design Thinking practices.
• Balance team bandwidth to set design timelines that meet the needs of the release schedule.
• Work closely with development teams to guide the implementation and iteration of designs and verifies that the final deliverables provide a quality user experience and meet design specifications.
• Fosters the development of UX initiatives across the organization
• Work with Product Managers to share successes and drive the overall effectiveness of processes and work priorities used by the UX department.
• Work with Product Management leadership to help define the Alteryx product roadmap and present it to internal audiences.
• Help maintain the timeliness of UX deliverables based on agreed-upon timelines.
• Provide feedback and direction on designs as well as creating designs.
• Review team designs with UX Leadership on a cadence appropriate for understanding new products, patterns and flows early in the design process.

As an effective leader, you will :

As an effective product designer (individual contributor), you will :

Requirements :

Find yourself checking a lot of these boxes but doubting whether you should apply? At Alteryx, we support a growth mindset for our associates through all stages of their careers. If you meet some of the requirements and you share our values, we encourage you to apply. As part of our ongoing commitment to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, we’re invested in building teams with a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, and experiences.