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• Guide Design team to best interpret direction from Design leadership into on-brand, beautiful jewelry collections that meet aesthetic, assortment and business goals. • Oversee design of multiple jewelry collections and accompanying technical processes. • Guarantee standard of best practices for design production process and pro-actively implement improvements. • Review completed jewelry prototypes to ensure that desired aesthetics are translated to finished product. • Partner with Design leadership team to ensure alignment with design intent and assortment goals during prototyping phase and throughout entire design process. • Partner with Product Development and Merchandizing leaders to align and collaborate at key process milestones. • Attend industry conferences, lectures, trade shows, and other avenues of research to keep informed of new product directions and trends. • Maintain a clean, efficient and safe working environmen

Collaborate with product managers and engineers to define broad requirements and design goals. Build prototypes of various fidelity to validate new product concepts. Relentlessly champion the user while defining user experience opportunities and identifying use cases. Identify usability issues for upcoming feature releases and collaboratively align on a solution. Tackle fiendishly complex design problems and provide clarity for the team as you break them down into viable, user-centered solutions. Analyze engagement metrics on in-flight pilots, and rapidly iterate the design with an eye towards constant improvement. Partner with UI engineers to test new features and identify bugs prior to deploying to production. Be the fountain of knowledge - keep the company in sync with user experience findings and the novel design approaches you’re pushing forward, actively doling out little nuggets of insights at just the right time .

Lead and conduct qualitative and quantitative research with our key users — consumers and H-E-B Partners. Surface questions and hypotheses to structure and identify research objectives and methods. Synthesize and communicate findings, connecting insights to design in order to drive strategy and rapid iteration. Collaborate with teammates through the design process to create experiences and identify opportunities.