UX Visual Design Manager
Company: Allstate
Location: Northbrook
Posted on: June 25, 2022
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Job Description:
The world isn't standing still, and neither is Allstate. We're
moving quickly, looking across our businesses and brands and taking
bold steps to better serve customers' evolving needs. That's why
now is an exciting time to join our team. You'll have opportunities
to take risks, challenge the status quo and shape the future for
the greater good.
You'll do all this in an environment of excellence and the highest
ethical standards - a place where values such as integrity,
inclusive diversity and accountability are paramount. We empower
every employee to lead, drive change and give back where they work
and live. Our people are our greatest strength, and we work as one
team in service of our customers and communities. Plus, Allstate is
changing how, when, and where we work-to lead us boldly into our
future. We're empowering our employees to create better ways of
working through more intentional use of communication and
collaboration practices, processes and tools.
Everything we do at Allstate is driven by a shared purpose: to
protect people from life's uncertainties so they can realize their
hopes and dreams. For more than 89 years we've thrived by staying a
step ahead of whatever's coming next - to give customers peace of
mind no matter what changes they face. We acted with conviction to
advocate for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws. We
help give survivors of domestic violence a voice through financial
empowerment. We've been an industry leader in pricing
sophistication, telematics, digital photo claims and, more
recently, device and identity protection. We are the Good Hands. We
don't follow the trends. We set them. UX at Allstate
We're a large and well-respected digital design organization of
115+ passionate UX designers, content designers, researchers,
visual designers, and design program managers led by our VP UX, and
we'll be growing by 40% in 2022! We're hiring to evolve UX across
dozens of digital products and services and Allstate brands and to
establish a shared design platform: an expanded design system,
reusable content, user research, and design thinking.
Here's what you can expect from a UX career at Allstate:
Participate in a collaborative, fun and friendly remote team
environment that values diversity, builds and trains individuals,
and supports long-term career and skills growth
Contribute to large-scale digital systems and products that are
used by millions of customers and have a meaningful impact on our
business
Join a proven UX organization that is benefitting from high growth,
demand, visibility, and investment
Practice true user-centered design, supported by robust research
and analytics capabilities
At Allstate, you'll help innovate and reinvent insurance and
improve customers' lives by designing products to support them in
their moments of greatest need, and you'll have fun along the way.
Join our diverse team of creative problem solvers using our talents
for good - at work and in life! Job Summary:
As a strategic design aesthetic lead at Allstate, the Visual Design
Manaer plans for, facilitates creation of, and manages clear,
consistent, and engaging high-quality digital user interfaces to
drive bottom-line business results for the company. You'll
coordinate collaboration across a broad range of customer
experiences and touchpoints, including branded websites,
application and product development, e-commerce, iOS, Android, web
responsive, email and other digital content and software. You are
the expert as well as a resource and mentor for other visual design
team members.
The Visual Design Manager also supports Allstate's overall brand
objectives by ensuring accessible design consistency, and by
communicating brand values and the Allstate design language through
every stage of the customer journey. You'll be an expert at
leveraging typography, color, iconography, illustration, digital
imagery, motion and layout design into an enterprise-wide
consistent design system. You'll be able to identify the potential
need for new design patterns when necessary.
You'll use design thinking and keep the user at the center of
everything we do when collaborating with UX Content Designers, UX
Designers, and UX Researchers. You'll work within an agile
framework to create human-centered visual design solutions that
utilize customer insights, data, legal and stakeholder input.
All applicants should provide work samples, with proper
consideration of copyright restrictions. The applicant should be
able to speak to their design philosophy and be aware of design
trends. Applicants who cannot provide work samples will not be
considered.
Key Responsibilities:
Partner with UX Designers, UX Content Designers, UX Researchers,
and Technology team members to ensure design follows best
practices, optimizes messaging, and is technically feasible;
collaborate closely with business stakeholders to ensure business
goals are met
Partner with outside vendors, as needed, for visual design to
ensure consistency with digital brand guidelines and optimized
formatting of assets
Create and/or present mood boards, visual design comps, and other
design deliverables to both internal and client teams, educating
teams on the design process and rationale behind solutions
Produce or oversee production of all necessary design elements,
assets, templates, graphics, etc. to ensure design consistency and
quality across multiple digital channels
Assist the Director, Design & Content Platform & Quality in the
execution and management of digital brand standards and style
guides
Assist with Interpretation of the IT strategy and align resources
and people to meet strategic goals in alignment with the business
objectives of the organization
Manage a sub-area or department within a division, functional area,
or group of products/services/technologies
Supervisory Responsibilities:
This job does have supervisory duties. Preferred
Qualifications:
Education and Experience
The hiring range for this position is $130,000 - $150,000. Offers
will be commensurate with experience.
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit
to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands -.
As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a
competitive salary - but that's just the beginning. Our Total
Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance,
medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and
401(k). Plus, you'll have access to a wide variety of programs to
help you balance your work and personal life -- including a
generous paid time off policy. For a full description of Allstate's
benefits, visit allstate.jobs/benefits
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