Vimeo is looking for a Senior Design Manager to lead our live creation team. Live streaming is changing the world & has become a center of focus for Vimeo, from self-serve live streaming to Enterprise use cases (such as company all hands, webinars, etc). The Live team at Vimeo sits on the forefront of visual company communications, & this role will play a major part of creating a world class live streaming experience. 

The ideal candidate will have a bias for action, an understanding of video (either through live streaming or video on demand), & sophisticated interactions; will have deep empathy for users.

We need a pragmatic, detailed-minded designer with a desire to create amazing products! Someone who has a strong visual point of view, loves working quickly to generate many different ideas. You should thrive on close collaboration with others & be prepared to lead the way in reimagining how everyone can use the power of video.

What you'll do:

• Drive design & vision for our best-in-class video player products to transform the way our customers marketers, video professionals, SMBs, & Enterprises distribute video content.
• Work with your Product, Engineering & Marketing partners to launch & iterate premium product features & experiences across web & mobile platforms.
• Implement simple & elegant design solutions that enable content creators to enhance videos by way of machine learning technology & then manually layer rich interactivity throughout video content.
• Design from the concept phase all the way to product release & beyond by crafting high level user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, & prototypes.
• Work with our Customer Insights & Data team to directly engage with users & translate quantitative data & qualitative insights into informed design decisions & new product concepts.

Skills & knowledge you should possess:

• 6+ years as a product designer, user experience designer, interaction designer, or similar role with accompanying experience in visual/graphic design.
• Strong familiarity with industry standard UX practices & methods. Seeks & provides feedback with a positive sense of curiosity! 
• Ability to drive design concepts from business strategy discussions through to day-to-day hands-on design execution.
• Excellent user-centered design skills - you have a deep understanding of design fundamentals with a strong proficiency in Figma/Sketch & modern prototyping tools.
• Excellent communication skills - can clearly articulate your design vision & rationale through verbal & written explanation to any audience ranging from fellow designers to the leadership team.
• Ability to be autonomous - takes initiative & ownership of projects while collaborating with other teams & designers. 
• Recent portfolio or samples of web / native app product design work informed by quantitative or qualitative user research as well as the process that led to their launch.

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