3M is driving creativity and design as a competitive platform for innovation and brand globally to enhance design-driven solutions for people and the world. We are looking for a contract Senior UX Design Manager to lead the charge with our Industrial Business team at the 3M Design Center located in St. Paul, MN. 

Does your curiosity inspire you to imagine tomorrows solutions to todays problems? Do you ever wonder how collaborative creativity can enrich innovation and make progress possible? Or wonder whether design can drive competitive advantage for business, while also having positive impact on the world? These are just a few of the questions we ask at 3M Design every day. Our diverse, global team includes design talent from multiple creative disciplines from product design to graphic design to packaging, user experience and so much more. Were looking for people who are not only skilled design professionals, but also creative explorers who translate insights and capabilities into new solutions that can make the world better.

The person hired for the contract position of UX Design Principal or Senior UX Design Manager will work with cross-functional teams to create user-centered designs and workflows in support of programs of major importance across 3M Industrial Business Group. The person in this role will lead and support on experience and visual design to bring to life experience strategies, applications, user interface platform/ ecosystems; define visual design principles and language for digital interface that express the 3M brand; and identify visual user interface requirements, create guidelines and define design approach.

Major Duties & Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following:
Lead experience design development that delivers on business strategy and customers unmet needs
Identify customer pain points and translate insights into actionable design direction
Lead cross-functional teams in a broad diversity of design developments and business initiatives.
Lead design projects from conception to implementation securing client and/or business participation.
Formulate business and design goals & objectives; translate these in design programs / projects
Advise and consult with Leadership and Design Teams to set short to medium design directions and operating plans.
Identify and creatively manage suitable 3rd party partners.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, in order to influence peers and key stakeholders
Team worker, passionate, high engagement level, stretching the boundaries
Supports multiple projects in parallel; organize and manage assignments in a dynamic environment
Manage development of world-class user interfaces and visual designs from concept to execution for web-based products and mobile applications
Assesses and directs iterations of rapid prototypes via customer feedback
Advocates for the customers needs throughout design development, while maintaining design integrity
Critical contributor to customer journey map development, insight extraction and design direction
Awareness and confidence within ethnographic research methods, synthesis and application

Basic Qualifications:
Bachelors degree or higher in a graphic design, visual communications or other design discipline from an accredited university
A minimum of 7 combined years of experience working with and in diverse brand touch points, industries and/or geographies.

Preferred Qualifications:
M.S. in Design Strategy, Graphic Design or Visual Communications, or a related field or equivalent practical experience
Minimum of 10 years relevant work experience in the design industry
Experience with creating web-based products, mobile applications for iOS and Android
Excellent visual design skills, layout, typography, and colors
Experience working collaboratively with other product managers and engineers in a variety of settings and strong communication skills with the ability to articulate positions and advocate designs

Location: Maplewood, MN
Relocation: Not Authorized