Design Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Who we are :

Fuse builds innovative communications, networking, and computing solutions that improve the sharing of information, video, text, and voice among operators distributed throughout the airborne, maritime, and ground environments.  We are a technology firm creating in-house software, network and hardware solutions that support our noble cause of advancing warfighter capabilities with elegant, user-focused communications, networks, and software systems.

About this role :

As the Design Manager, you will own and mature the Design Language across products and programs. Leading a team of UX and Industrial designers, your ability to define, implement, and maintain a design system across the company as a whole will have a direct impact to our overall success. You will collaborate with leadership, strategy, marketing, domain experts, and engineers to provide value to the experience.

Duties and Responsibilities :

• Drive an end-to-end intuitive user experience across mediums (Web, Mobile, Industrial Design) and disciplines, with a focus on minimizing cognitive overhead of complex concepts
• Discover and define interaction designs and UI patterns through engagement activities with our warfighter community
• Lead a UI / UX team to define and deliver interaction design flows, scenarios, and structural layouts for both digital and physical product interactions
• Lead an Industrial Design team to inform the manufactured design of our physical products
• Partner with program management, hardware engineers, and industrial engineers to deliver thoughtful solutions for our tangible product lines
• Bring a multidisciplinary point of view of product design to the conversation, bringing creativity and diversity of thought from a design point of view
• Ability to self-motivate and consistently deliver results in a rapidly delivering and fast-moving organization

Requirements

Must be a nimble self-starter who is excited about technology and can think out of the box and suggest powerful new ideas.

Nice to have :

More about Fuse :

Founded in 2010, Fuse is a veteran-owned, rapidly growing small business. Our San Diego-based company has earned recognition as an emerging leader in airborne, maritime, and ground networking.  Placing the warfighter at the center of every design process, Fuse delivers intuitive, agile, and resilient products that go beyond national security requirements—providing lasting utility and game-changing results.  We take pride in our brilliant and talented team as well as our dynamic environment and collaborative, creative, environment.  We build cutting-edge hardware and software products that solve complex national security challenges for our warfighters at the tactical edge.

Salary Range : $120,000 - $175,000

Benefits