Experience Design Director - Shaving Solutions

As a Design Director for Shaving Solutions, you have the opportunity to lead a winning cross-competence Design team that is well integrated and recognized in the Philips Personal Health Grooming and Beauty (G&B) business. The Experience Design Director role is considered key in the development of Shaving products, solutions and impactful communication.

As an integral function to the business, G&B Experience Design plays a crucial role in driving this transformation. We believe that good design is about creating solutions that satisfy people's needs, empowering them to take care of themselves without harming the world in which we live.

You will:

• Drive solution creation a cross-competence project team, thinking holistically in eco-systems and end-to-end experiences covering product, digital solutions, packaging and communication from direction setting to engineering and feasibility checks and implementation.
• Create user focused strategies, innovations and experiences leveraging user testing and validation, considering usability, sustainability and appropriate visual and verbal articulation in line with Design Language System and Brand guidelines.
• Drive operational excellence and efficiency, delivering appropriate design quality within budget and project parameters.
• Be partnering and co-creating with internal and external stakeholders, with clear and impactful communication and articulation of design decision-making.
• Challenge the status quo to inspire innovation and a step-up in value towards the user.

You are responsible for:

Providing creative and team leadership in all development phases like value proposition creation, advanced development, platform creation and product development. As leader of a category Design team, you can also find yourself contributing to holistic business Design Strategies, Portfolio frameworks and Business specific Design Language Systems. In this context Experience Director responsibilities include:

Strategy. Synthesize relevant people, business and market insights for the category program, in line with overall business design program objectives. Translating business goals into design goals in consultation with Business Design Leader.

Creation. Lead the creative output of a multi-disciplinary business category team, orchestrating solutions and experiences across touchpoints (product, digital, packaging, in-store) and working with business peers to define the creative vision for a category within overall set G&B business design platforms and quality standards.

Delivery. Drive operational excellence and efficiency of the category design team in context of well established E2E processes, taking responsibility for the design quality of the delivery, reporting output to the Design Leader and respective business category teams.

Inspiration. Call out the voice of the consumer. Inspire change towards internal and external stakeholders, with clear and impactful communication and articulation of category experience strategy and design direction.

People and team management. Lead and people manage a small size team, foster effective teamwork to deliver on business and quality objectives, giving guidance to team members, being respectful and inclusive in driving performance and quality.

Quality. Adhere to (cross) business Design quality standards. Champion harmonized experiences through platforms to ensure the most consistent and quality consumer experience along with most effective development and implementation of design elements.

To succeed in this role

You need a consumer first attitude, end-to-end experience mindset and meet the following criteria:

• Bachelor’s or master’s Degree in product and/or product-interaction design/Industrial Engineering
• 10+ years of relevant experience in one or more relevant business domains and in one or more markets and cultures.
• You are a ‘T-shaped’ Design leader with proven track record in orchestrating end-to-end experiences (cross Product, UX, user interaction and service design).
• Excellent analytical & conceptual skills to increase domain knowledge, create relevant insights leading to meaningful and innovative solutions that appropriately address user-needs.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams and partner with functional leaders in product, digital and communication design in order to develop fully integrated new propositions from start to end.
• Preferably experience with design for Lean / Agile development; coach and motivate a team.
• Experience leading product and solution design processes from idea all the way to technical realization.
• In-depth knowledge of designing small or stand-alone electronic devices including product and service combinations.
• Create effective visual languages and understand the meaning and effect of these on the brand, audience, market and culture.
• You are continuously aware of current trends through fashion, art, design, and digital related products through market research.
• You have a professional, ambitious and collaborative mindset, a strong narrative and ability in visual, verbal and written communication.
• You are fluent in English; Chinese (Mandarin) is considered a plus.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve.