Digital Design Fellow

Description

As the Designer Fellow , Digital Product, the successful candidate will be the chief UX designer of our UX/UI design community, leading design work across multiple digital properties. This individual will be a foundational cornerstone for our digital transformation, designing intuitive, engaging, consistent, world-class, innovative digital experiences for our customers to drive new digital revenue streams and differentiation for the enterprise. This role is crucial to driving the user experience (UX) vision and translating complex requirements into seamless, user-centered product designs that are radically simple across customer platforms, which will evolve over time. Reporting to the Director of Digital Design, the chosen candidate will not have direct reports, but lead other UX/UI designers, product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to create designs that meet/exceed both user needs and business goals in new areas of focus across a global enterprise. The successful candidate will also actively design to advance work. This role demands a strong digital portfolio experience and advanced design expertise across multiple disciplines/platforms, expertise in design methodologies, technical and business acumen, and a passion for driving change and design excellence across all stages of the product lifecycle.

Essential Duties:

• Design Leadership and Strategy: Lead the end-to-end design process for complex and/or new digital products, from concept to implementation, ensuring designs align with the strategic goals of the organization. Develop and promote design standards, guidelines, best practices and radical simplicity to maintain consistency across all digital touchpoints.  Ensure the activation of journey management at scale through design.  Lead the Global UX/UI design community in this pursuit.  Design to support business goals on critical business areas. 
• User-Centered Design: Conduct, partner and be responsive to user research (e.g., interviews, surveys, usability testing) and collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify user pain points, needs, and behaviors. Translate insights into wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity designs that deliver exceptional user experiences, advocates for customers throughout the development lifecycle.
• Collaboration and Innovation: Partner closely with leadership, product managers, designers and engineers to define product requirements, provide design solutions, and ensure designs are implemented as intended. Innovate and experiment with new design trends, tools, and technologies to continually improve user experience and enhance the product.   Travel may be required for design sessions, workshops and other high value collaboration opportunities to advance business goals. 
• Mentorship and Team Development: Guide, mentor junior and mid-level designers to foster their growth in design thinking, execution, and problem-solving thus advancing the designer/UX ecosystem. Share knowledge, provide constructive feedback, and support team development through design input and collaborative design sessions globally.
• Stakeholder Communication and Presentation: Uses effective storytelling methods to convey knowledge and pitch opportunities to executive leadership.  Present design solutions and rationale to stakeholders, clearly articulating design decisions and how they align with user needs and business goals. Collaborate with stakeholders to refine and iterate on design concepts based on customer feedback or evolving business need.
• Design System Ownership: Contribute to the evolution and maintenance of the company’s design system to ensure scalability, consistency, and coherence across all digital products. Advocate for design system usage across the product development process.

Minimum Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field.

Minimum Experience

• 8+ years of experience in product design, UX/UI design, or a related field, with at least 3+ years in a senior or lead design role.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Expertise in design tools (e.g., Figma) and prototyping tools (e.g., InVision).
• A strong portfolio showcasing a broad range of design work, including user research, wireframes, visual design, and interactive prototypes.
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality digital products and user experiences across web and mobile platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience of having done this role at another company/companies at scale as part of a digital transformation (complex business environment) or launch of a digital business
• Ability to design low fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes at scale on demand and with ease in multiple platforms/channels
• Advanced degrees and certifications in design-related fields
• Experience working in an agile development environment and collaborating with cross-functional teams at scale globally
• Familiarity with front-end development and ability to collaborate with engineers to ensure design feasibility and implementation
• Expertise in designing for complex enterprise-level applications or digital platforms.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels; ability to interact with/present to executives on design-related topics. 
• A demonstrated commitment to staying updated with the latest design trends, techniques, and technologies

Note: Travel will be required for this role both domestically and abroad (approximately 10-20%, depending on business need).  Additionally, collaboration with teams in the EU (Central European Time) is required, which will impact working hours several days a week to ensure at least 3-4 hours overlap. 

Preferred Qualifications: Experience of similar role at another company/companies at scale as part of a digital transformation (complex business environment) or launch of a digital business; Ability to design low/high-fidelity prototypes at scale in multiple platforms/channels; Experience working in an agile development environment and collaborating with cross-functional business and engineering team at scale globally; Expertise in designing for complex enterprise-level applications or digital platforms; executive presentations

Pay Transparency: This compensation range is provided as a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary range for this role across all potential locations. If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the salary, information represents the job level minimum and nd the job level maximum. Actual starting pay would be determined by experience relative to the job, market level, pay at the location for this job and other job-related factors permitted by law. An employee may be eligible for additional pay, premiums, An employee may be eligible for additional pay, premiums, or bonus potential.

Pay: $12,476.52/month - $22,873.62/month

Additional Details: This position may be located anywhere within the United States excluding Alaska, Hawaii and US territories. Depending on your location, you may be required to work at a FedEx Campus location several times per week

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application process. Applicants who require reasonable accommodations in the application or hiring process should contact recruitmentsupport@fedex.com.

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• Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law
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• Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
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