Digital Design Director Visual Experience

Primary Purpose: The Digital Design Director, Visual Experience will take the lead in the exploration and development of new creative and digital technologies, driving a true point of difference for Coach in the eyes of the customer. AR/VR/MR

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Digital Visual Experience to..
- Create immersive experience, especially around pop- ups, windows, showrooms and fashion shows
- Research and develop intuitive and engaging creative experiences tailored to personality of the Coach brand
- Solve current creative challenges and define future opportunities, with the aim of cementing COACH as a leader in digital experiences
- Concept creative executions throughout the broad spectrum of environments, ranging from digital installations to games
- Create and facilitate an environment, process and design system that supports consistent UI principles and process
- Understand and create work that can be effective at a global scale
- Line management of other designers within the Experience Design team
- Maintain vendor networks to enable the delivery of best-in-class execution at both a creative and development level
- Follow design blogs and meet-ups, and feel comfortable sharing your inspirations and ideas with the team and the business
The accomplished individual will possess..
- Self-motivation and passion about design and technology
- Good communications skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders and team members.
- Innovative Mobile and cross-platform interaction design experience
- Passion about mobile with a solid understanding of mobile trends and technologies
- Excellent understanding of Sketch, Figma and After Effects.
- Experience in using various front-end frameworks (CSS, JS, HTML) to build out digital experiences
- Knowledge of Unity or similar engine
- Detail-orientation, be deadline driven, and able to multi-task with solid organizational and time management skills.

An outstanding professional will have..
- Design degree or equivalent qualification
- Excellent portfolio of design solutions across a spectrum of platforms and services.
- 8yrs+ digital experience, preferably split between both agency and in-house teams
- Previous experience of line management and mentoring others within the design industry.
- Proven design experience for a fashion brand or retailer

Our Competencies for All Employees
- Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
- Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
- Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
- Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
- Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish; seldom gives up before finishing, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks.
- Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
Our Competencies for All People Managers
- Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
- Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong moraleand spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
- Managerial Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
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