Job Title:  Principal Digital Product Designer

What You Need To Know

Shape a remarkable future with us. Build a career working for an industry leader that truly invests in their people – and equips them with leading technology, continuous learning, and the ability to bring their best selves to work. As the premier wine and spirits distributor, Southern Glazer’s isn't just one of Forbes’ Top Private Companies; it's a family-owned business with deep roots dating back to 1933.

The reputation of Southern Glazer’s is well-established, and it's no surprise that we are regularly recognized for our culture. Southern Glazer’s has been recognized by Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion and Diversity, as well as for Women and Parents and Families. These accolades speak volumes about our commitment to creating a supportive and inclusive culture of belonging for all employees.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a wide-ranging menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition assistance, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

By joining Southern Glazer’s, you would be part of a team that values excellence, innovation, and community. This is more than just a job – it's an opportunity to build the future of beverage distribution and grow with a company that truly cares about its people.

Overview

Principal Designers at Southern Glazer’s work lead one or more product portfolios and report to the Director, Digital Product Design. This role works across product and services for integrated business functions, supply chain, retail customers, Principal Designers set the quality standard for product design at Southern Glazer’s.

Primary Responsibilities

• Understand the market opportunity for innovative new digital products and services
• Explore new technologies for applicability to Southern Glazer’s business
• Lead problem-framing & ideation sessions
• Lead design thinking workshops and train others how to use design thinking techniques to innovate
• Create design hypotheses and explore divergent ideas and potential solutions
• Partner with enterprise technology to create proofs of concepts for new technologies
• Explore low-code opportunities to bring design to the forefront
• Collaborate with design researchers to continuously learn and iterate design work
• Collaborate with company leadership to ideate, concept, and prototype solutions to challenging business problems
• Lead design reviews with executive-level colleagues

Additional Primary Responsibilities

• Provide solid rationale for design decisions
• Make compelling and persuasive presentation of ideas, concepts, and in-progress design work
• Ensure the work done by designers meets our quality standards
• Adapt the product’s design language as it evolves
• Contribute to the evolution of our multi-theme design system
• Model collaboration and thought leadership, help colleagues develop and articulate design POVs
• Appropriately inclusive of software development in the design process
• Collaborate with software engineering, analytics, and QA teammates to bring ideas to life and products to market
• Partner with software engineering counterparts to improve design-to-code workflows
• Support the OKRs of product portfolios as a principal design partner
• Contribute and develop ideas to help the portfolio achieve its business outcomes
• Define the product’s design strategy, help the portfolio director understand the design strategy and contribute to the product roadmap

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of digital product design experience, inclusive of mobile app design, web design, and design systems
• 5+ years of experience designing enterprise-level e-commerce applications (web and/or native app)
• 2+ years leading others, as a team lead or manager
• Portfolio inclusive of digital project work showing end-to-end experience: from ideation to launch
• Familiarity with the full digital product lifecycle, using product roadmaps, story mapping, writing design stories, designing features, direct collaboration with development teams
• Expert knowledge of: Design & prototyping tools (Figma, Protopie, Framer, Canvaa), Collaboration tools (Miro, Confluence, Jira), Global design systems, Responsive design best practices
• Ability to generate, visualize and prototype new concepts to demonstrate and test with users and stakeholders
• Experience with design thinking methodology in practice, with portfolio examples
• Experience leading design in an agile business environment, with portfolio examples
• Experience developing global design systems, with portfolio examples

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
• Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.

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