Teague
Director, UX Design
Seattle, WA · Director
Sponsorship not specified$15k-$20kDetected 95 days ago
SparkUX DesignAccessibilityProduct StrategyProject ManagementBusiness DevelopmentCadenceResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoringPublic Speaking
About the role
- You provide hands-on leadership across projects, facilitating workshops, aligning stakeholders, and elevating team output through strong critique and direction.
- You also contribute to business growth and mentor designers, maintaining a high bar for craft, collaboration, and impact.
- Travel expectations vary by project and client needs, typically averaging around 15-20% and including occasional short domestic trips for workshops, research, and key meetings.
Responsibilities
- Leads multiple concurrent client engagements, with primary responsibility for design quality, UX rigor, and overall experience direction.
- Serves as the senior design authority on complex software, systems, and service design projects, ensuring work is grounded in user needs, technical realities, and business objectives.
- Provides active design leadership to teams-offering clear critique, guidance, and decision-making support throughout the lifecycle of a project.
- Responsible for partnering closely with studio leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to drive alignment, share direction, and ensure creative group success.
- Holds and communicates a strong passion for design, offering unique insights that spark curiosity and drive excellence.
- Fosters a strong design culture and mentors rising leaders, including ongoing support and guidance for creative leads.
- Drives strategic thinking across client engagements and project opportunities.
- Brings expertise in UX strategy and research to support design, product, and brand development.
- Skilled in developing user-centered perspectives, guiding UX teams of varying experience levels, and translating insights into persuasive design and business decisions.
- Applies and adapts a range of design, research, and product methodologies, selecting the right approach for each client context rather than enforcing a one-size-fits-all process.
Requirements
- You bring a strong point of view grounded in user needs, technical realities, and business goals, and you know how to translate that into thoughtful, well-crafted experiences.
- You're as skilled in shaping strategy as you are in guiding execution, leading teams through ambiguity with confidence and providing clear, actionable critique that elevates the work.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in a design related field.
- 10+ years of experience in design consulting, with a robust and diverse portfolio of impactful, multidisciplinary work.
- 3+ years in a creative leadership role (e.g., Creative Director) within a consulting or agency environment.
- Experience balancing long-term strategic planning with day-to-day operational oversight.
- Proven success leading cross-functional and ad hoc teams to deliver complex projects, driving outcomes through collaboration, influence, and direct leadership.
- Exceptional project framing skills
- defining approach, deliverables, stages, process to ensure confidence within internal teams and with the client.
- Recognized as a visionary leader and creative thinker who inspires teams and shapes industry conversations
- a strong professional network in the airline or transportation sectors is a plus.
- Exceptional relationship-building skills with people across all levels of an organization and from diverse cultural, generational, ethnic, racial, educational, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
- Deep understanding of the design process and operations, particularly in aviation, transportation, product development, and experience design.
- Demonstrated fluency in both business and creative disciplines, with experience leading strategic initiatives that bridge design and organizational growth.
- A consistent track record of delivering successful projects and cultivating long-term client relationships.
- Respected voice in the design community, known for thought leadership, passion for craft, and meaningful contributions to industry conversations.
Compensation
- Consistently deliver on annual goals and performance objectives aligned with fiscal year priorities.
Benefits
- At Teague, we value diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- We are employee-owned through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), meaning our people share in the long-term success of the business.
- We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package that rewards you based on performance and recognition for the value you bring to Teague.
- Individual salaries within this range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography.
- Champions continuous learning and professional growth across the creative team, ensuring readiness to meet future challenges.
Company info
- On any given day, you might be prototyping a new space station, designing cutting-edge technology for off-road vehicles, or traveling around the world conducting research with airline passengers.
- We are approaching our one-hundred-year anniversary and are proudly employee-owned.
- Our culture fosters collaboration, accountability, and stability-because when we succeed, we all win.
- Come be a part of something bigger than just a job-build your career with an employee-owned company that invests in you!
- Teague is an independent design consultancy that combines technology expertise with a deep understanding of human behavior to design what's next for companies in automotive, commercial aviation, smart cities and infrastructure, advanced mobility, technology, space, and defense.
- Educate - Continuously learn and grow through focused training and resources.
- Celebrate - Honor diverse voices, perspectives, and contributions.
- Take Action - Prioritize inclusivity in our work, approach to hiring, and team culture.
- Contributes to company-wide strategy discussions, offering recommendations that keep the creative function aligned with market trends, competitive shifts, and evolving business priorities.
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