Product Director - UX & Design

Location: Greater London

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As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.
** Job Description
**** Get To Know Us:
** SS&C is leading the way.  We continue to look for today's and tomorrow’s brightest talent, those who embody a spirit to improve not only their lives, but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals, we encourage you to apply. SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse, honest, dynamic individuals who value collaboration, accountability, and innovation, to name a few.

** Product Director – UX & Design
**** Locations**:
London, Essex | Hybrid
** The Opportunity
** The Product Director – User Experience & Design will ensure that the products and services we deliver have their usability by our clients at their core ensuring simplicity of use and efficiency of interaction.
** You will be the point person for all User Experience, User Interface and User Interaction Design within the company.
** You will advise the Product and Technology community on design-centric development and where required manage 3rd party resources to the company to support this effort in practice. With client/customer research as a core skill, you will build rapid prototypes with your partners in development and oversee user research to gain insights on the validity of the value propositions and product/market fit.

Actively participating in the agile development process, you will ensure “design thinking” is embedded right from the ideation stage.
** What You Will Get To Do:
*** Guide, own and communicate the overall Design strategy which influences the Product vision set by the Head of Product and in-line with our company strategy
* Guide the organization into becoming UX design-centric
* Establish relationships with design resources to provide the third-party support required
* Determine if/when to scale up in-house talent to meet the demand for design resources – creating the business case to gain C-level buy-in
* Recommend and drive prioritization of requirements from competing product domains
* Collaborate with your development partners within Product and Technology and the client-facing teams in Sales, Operations and Marketing to ensure awareness of design and the positive impact on their areas
* Aid the creation of the marketing content and Go-To-Market content when necessary, by working closely with Marketing
* Undertake regular user research, gaining insights into the extent of our current and new product’s usability and relevance to our clients
* Support, assign and motivate your virtual team of UX, UI and Researchers from third parties to efficient performance - driving achievement of the budgetary goals for Design
* Support Sales in Client meetings, when required; investigating client needs and establishing views on new product design to meet them
** What You Will Bring:
*** Teamwork:
Able to provide support to those within their peer group and especially their team; able to set priorities and manage the team to cohesion and performance
* Management:
Able to set priorities and manage the team to cohesion and performance encouraging and coaching the performance of directly managed and virtually managed teams
* Delivery and Impact:
Raises risks and issues promptly to the relevant bodies alongside recommendations for mitigation
* Problem Solving:  Identifies, considers and solves problems of a product, political, organisational and technical nature – ensuring visibility and buy-in where required
* Organisation:
Provides regular 360 feedback to team, peers and leadership – with a view to addressing issues as well as encouraging performance
* Influence:  Provides open feedback with actionable intent – also solicits this from peers, team and leadership

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