Role Specific Information

Job Description

About the Role

As Manager, Product Design, you will oversee your team's daily operations, provide guidance, foster a collaborative environment, and ensure alignment with business and prioritization goals. Your design and thought leadership will drive your team members' performance, innovation, and professional development.

What You’ll Do

• Drive a customer-first approach for the User Centered Design (UCD) process and bring design thinking to balanced teams

• Lead and facilitate Design Sprints at all phases of design and development

• Demonstrate creative leadership helping the team and key stakeholders with product vision, business priorities and aligned outcomes of the Balance Team (BT)

• Develop and implement design strategies through key insights and data that enhance user experience, align with business goals and foster innovative solutions for the BTs

• Partner with Research to create learning plans and assess methods and tools for BTs

• Educate and promote research methods and educate BTs on how to choose optimal learning plans for every project

• Create intuitive and impactful holistic digital experiences that delight customers through UI and Visual Design

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to ensure projects align with overall business objectives

• Employ holistic design strategies to address ambiguous and complex challenges, ensuring interconnectedness and efficiencies across all system components of Kohl’s

• Additional tasks may be assigned

What Skills You Have

Required

• 6-10 years experience as a designer creating software products and owning an experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field of study, or equivalent work experience

• Relevant experience as a designer in the retail industry or comparable domain

Preferred

• Experience in User-Centered Design, closely collaborating with agile Software Developers/Product managers and contributing to successful products using Lean Startup and Agile methodologies

• Deep experience in: Experience Design, User Research, Interaction Design, Visual Design or Service Design

Essential Functions

The requirements listed below are representative of functions you will be required to perform, however you may be required to perform additional functions. Kohl’s may revise this job description at any time. To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship.

• Ability to perform the accountabilities listed in the “What You’ll Do” Section

• Ability to comply with dress code requirements

• Basic math and reading skills, legible handwriting, and basic computer operation

• Ability to maintain prompt and regular attendance and meet scheduling requirements as set by the company

• Ability to learn and comply with all company policies, procedures, standards and guidelines

• Ability to give direction and to receive, understand and proactively respond to direction from leadership and other company personnel

• Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others

• Ability to maintain composure and work in a fast paced environment while accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes

• Ability to satisfactorily complete company training programs

• Ability to use a personal computer for tasks such as communicating, preparing reports, etc.

• Ability to plan, prioritize and monitor activities across business units

• Ability to complete or oversee the completion of assigned projects in a timely manner