At Honeywell Aerospace, our mission is to provide the most advanced aerospace products and services engineered to solve complex problems to make your flying experience faster, safer and more efficient. Come join us and make a difference. We’re building a new Global Honeywell User Experience (HUE) Design Center of Excellence to create our next generation of products, services and customer experiences.
We are seeking an ambitious Interaction Design Leader to set creative design direction, strategy and develop our design talent. This is a newly created global position, based out of Phoenix. This is a unique opportunity to come build a world class experience design group at a Fortune 100 company.
As a top candidate, you will set the Interaction design strategic direction for Aerospace projects globally and contribute directly to creating the next generation of user experiences on a wide variety of products. This position requires a leader with a strong Interaction & Visual design background both in strategic design planning and tactical design application.
Our HUE organization delivers a branded end-to-end user experience across every user touch point for Aerospace and across a diverse set of customers – pilots, installers, maintainers and end users. We use well established human-centered design principles to ensure that Honeywell products and applications are the most useful, usable and desirable products in the marketplace.
Honeywell International is a leading $40 billion diversified Technology Corporation with a wide range of businesses including automation and control solutions, aerospace systems, transportation systems, and performance materials. Honeywell Aerospace is a $12B SBG (Strategic Business Group) with 40,000 employees in over 125 domestic & international locations. We are a leading global aviation supplier designing, manufacturing, & distributing advanced electronic systems, products, & services to commercial, defense & space industries.
This position reports directly to the Director, User Experience Design Strategy. You will be responsible for leading Interaction design across all Aerospace products (avionics and mechanical) and systems. You will work across our portfolio to create differentiated brand design languages (DLS), lead interaction design work across each of our 15 Aerospace Business Enterprises, build and develop our growing interaction design group, and manage creative direction and oversight of strategic design partners. You will work with other Aerospace HUE design leaders in an interdisciplinary studio to create the framework and best practices for a world-class design organization. Together, we will create design strategies, advanced design concepts and deliver outstanding products to market. The variety of our businesses and applications will challenge your creative talents and our global footprint will expose you to diverse cultures and developing markets.
What You Will Be Responsible for:
* Leading Interaction design across Aerospace, working with Interaction & Visual design leads across the HUE Design organization and our network of external design partners.
* Providing a clear, consistent perspective on progressive Interaction & Visual design to project teams and stakeholders.
* Creating and executing user-centered designs for Honeywell Aerospace products and services that differentiate our brands in the marketplace around the world.
* Working with various design and product groups to identify common interaction patterns (archetypes) across multiple platforms and developing differentiated signature interaction experiences to support diverse portfolio and enforce compliance.
* Research, evangelize, and present industry trends interaction design paradigms to be applied to Aerospace offerings.
* Developing, maintaining, and overseeing Interaction Design Language System (DLS) across offering.
* Developing best practices for Interaction design throughout the product development process.
* Work closely with the engineering, marketing and Advance Technology teams to ensure that Interaction strategies & standards become integral in their standard work and for new offering development including products and services.
* Collaborate with Advance Technology to drive advance concept designs
* Collaborating with Aerospace HUE Design Studios and Design COEs & disciplines in developing world class experiences.
* Work closely with HUE project teams to guide, support and ensure consistent of Interaction Design within all projects.
* Collaborate with Aerospace HUE Design leaders to define roadmaps for next generation user experiences and design strategies.
* Recruiting, developing and managing Interaction design resources in Aerospace.
* Model Honeywell core values and behaviors.
As a HUE Strategic Design Leader, you will need to have the following talents, skills and experiences:
* Strong portfolio of applying user-centered design practices in product development
* Strong portfolio of applying user-centered design practices in Interaction design environments.
* Demonstrated leadership experience; successfully scoping, planning and executing projects in accordance with a phases and gates development process.
* Demonstrated leadership experience leading, developing and managing industrial designers
* Demonstrated experience in developing Interaction design languages (DLS)
* Experience in understanding and synthesizing user needs using a variety of practices.
* Experience in design strategy, trends and how they apply to brand and product planning.
* Experience in evaluating products using: design trends, heuristic reviews, competitive benchmarking, formative and summative usability studies.
* Demonstrable talent in developing industry-leading Interaction designs.
* Experience creating low-fidelity to high-fidelity appearance models and prototypes.
* Experience directing and managing external design firms and model shops
* Clear evidence of leadership and the ability to get things done in a matrix environment.
* International experience working with regional businesses and design teams.
In this leadership position, you will be able to influence teams, both on site and distributed globally. People who are successful in our environment have highly collaborative skills with an ability to communicate effectively at multiple levels in multidisciplinary teams. As a top candidate, you have the ability to drive design consensus and Interaction & Visual design strategy across the Aerospace organization.
Despite our size, we offer a collaborative and flexible work environment. We value our people greatly, and enable them to deliver achievable results against clear objectives.
* Basic Qualifications *
* Bachelor’s degree in Interaction design, user experience design, visual design or related degree.
* Minimum of 10 or more years of experience in design of products.
* Minimum of 5 or more years of leadership experience.
* Additional Qualifications *
* Outstanding design portfolio or concepts and commercialized products.
* Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
* Excellent collaboration and teamwork attitude.
* Excellent drawing and sketching skills
* Fluent with interaction design analysis and prototyping tools, e.g., iRise, Visio, Balsamiq
* Experience with Color, Materials and Finish design trends, planning and specification
* Graduate degree industrial design, Interaction design or related HCI disciplines.
* Please note: This key new position includes relocation benefits.
**Job:** **Business Management*
**Title:** *Interaction Design Strategist*
**Location:** *AZ-Phoenix*
**Requisition ID:** *00284698*
**Other Locations:** *USA-TX-Austin*