UX Design Senior Director

Job DescriptionOracle Fusion ERP is looking for a new Director or Senior Director to lead the UX design of our next generation intelligent and highly automated corporate finance solutions. This position will be responsible for the designs of dozens of accounting, financial planning, reporting and analysis products that are being fundamentally reimagined with intelligence and automation at their core. These applications will be powered by state-of-the-art AI/ML/GenAI and use both GUIs and natural language interfaces to facilitate highly productive and powerful interactions with users. Perhaps even more profoundly, this position will help define the future ways corporate finance departments work, the roles and jobs within them, and the workflows through the next generation ERP system.To do this, this leader will work closely with ERP product and Oracle Design organizations, as well as build and lead their own growing team. They will work directly with our ERP business Executives, Product Management, and Engineering leadership to collectively define and paint the vision for what our next gen products will become. They will also work closely with our Oracle Design leadership and the Redwood UI Systems team to adopt, propagate, but also define new UI patterns, especially for automation, AI/ML/GenAI, and natural language UI patterns suited for Financial applications. Finally, this leader will of course lead and manage a growing team of talented design strategists, interaction designers, visual and motion designers, and prototypers to make this all possible.The ideal candidate has significant experience with creating sophisticated and innovative, multi-user, and large-scale enterprise systems, ideally focused on or related to corporate finance. Experience in consumer products design is also very welcome and appreciated. Other specific types of experience include the design of authoring tools, data analytics and data visualization, planning and forecasting, and management reporting UX. Designing program and project management solutions, automation systems, communication and collaboration UX, and administrative UIs, systems setup and configuration UX is also ideal. Finally, having the skills, taste, and experience creating high-polish, consumer-grade UX is a must.The role requites a ‘player-coach’ style of leadership with a mixture of innovative strategic vision and thinking, hands on design and creative direction, and ‘get it done’ pragmatic operations and delivery. Hands-on design is expected at times to articulate high level and detailed creative direction. But the role also requires being an effective team builder, manager, communicator, persuader, and operator who can make things happen and deliver results on-time and meeting or exceeding expectations. We also need someone who can develop a strong clear point of view for what their product UX should be, design within the technical capabilities and limitations of what can be built while always pushing for more. They should also foster a user-centered approach and design process to product definition and development for Design and the entire Product team including the use of user research both generative and evaluative.Career Level - M5ResponsibilitiesWhat you’ll bring:You thrive on working well with others. You make the people around you better. You love to collaborate with designers, user researchers, engineers, product managers, executives, and inspire them to do their best.You’re a full stack user experience designer. You look at interaction design, visual design and aesthetics, typography, motion, 3D, human factors, and more as tools in the UX designer’s toolkit. You may be better at some than others, but you know how to talk about each and combine them all into an experience that delights .You get stuff done.You’re a fantastic storyteller. You know that our products tell our customers a story through to talk. You won’t rest until that story is a compelling one.You love rules and you know when to break them. You think systemically because you know that creating a coherent experience requires it. But you know when the system needs to expand to accommodate a user’s varied conceptual model. And you know when to do something completely unique to create an arresting and product-defining moment in the product that makes users ooh and aah.You don’t already know everything and you love to learn. You’re inspired by helping users solve their problems. You love finding out you’re wrong. You consume large amounts of quantitative and qualitative data to constantly refine your assumptions.And finally, you want to be part of creating dramatic and impactful change at a company that is committed to becoming a light unto others when it comes to user experience design. You might have learned your craft via formal training or via on-the-job training. For most candidates, it’s a combination of both. As long as you’ve got experience and passion doing this work at the highest level, we’d love to talk to you and see a portfolio of the work you’re most proud of.The work you’ll do is…Transformative not incrementalWe are creating a culture of patient learning. We won’t rest…until we are delivering a state-of-the-art user experience for our customers, our partners, as well as our employees. We are a group of thousands of multi-disciplinary creatives from around the globe, dedicated to making the design profession more accessible and inclusive. Come and join our diverse and dynamic team to create state-of-the-art applications that connect, empower, and delight our users. We have design studios in Silicon Valley, Seattle and Guadalajara, Mexico. If you’re interested, please get in touch. We’d love to hear from you. We are excited to work with you!Human-ledPeople/customers are at the center of everything we do and showing humanity in our approach.You will connect and partner with customers to understand their objectives and their users’ needs. Empathize with them, and envision what might make their workflows and experiences dramatically better. Conduct explorative and evaluative user research studies and interviews to identify or verify needs, objectives and workflows. Evaluate experiences to assess discoverability, usability, accessibility and desirability.Superb craftmanshipWe are committed to delivering a state-of-the-art user experience for our customers, our partners, as well as our employees. We get stuff done.You will be designing solutions from concept, wireframes and prototypes to detailed, visually polished and scalable experiences, ready for implementation. Incorporate feedback quickly and adapt to changes in business requirements and timelines without compromising quality. Leverage the existing design style guide and system, templates and components where possible - create new patterns experiences where needed. Own & drive the experience of our products - and experience the incredible impact of your work will have on our customers.Bold, aspirational, excitingWe create solutions that span not just the depth and breadth of the challenges our customers face, but come from our diverse employee base, is core to our DNA. A modern user experience is not modern if it's one-size-fits-all.You will be working closely with kind, curious and smart designers, researchers, writers, product managers, and engineers across the globe. Innovation starts with inclusion – everyone’s voice is heard and valued.What we’ll give youGrow your career (and portfolio)Development is our priority. Take your career to the next level with world-class learning opportunities, extend your portfolio by designing and shipping products that touch the lives of millions of people, close collaboration with and mentorship by a multidisciplinary team of experts to deepen your knowledge and practice new skills in a variety of design disciplines including Strategy & Innovation, User Experience & User Interface (UI) Design, Visual/Motion Design, User Research, Prototyping, UX Writing, Design Production, and more.What will you do as a user experience design lead at Oracle?

You will be responsible for a team of designers that dives deep into one or more of our many products and be the company-wide design leader across several key feature areas or for an entire product.

You will work closely our partners in product management to understand the customers who use it, empathize with them, and imagine creative ways we can make their work lives dramatically better.

Partner closely with your fellow designers to innovate by designing coherent, seamless, and emotionally resonant, state-of-the-art user experiences for our users.

You will partner closely with your partners in engineering to take your pictures and turn them into reality.

Work closely with your colleagues in user research to get subject areas customer feedback on your designs, find out where you’ve improved their lives, and where you have more work to do.

You will design world-class user experiences including new conceptual models and interaction paradigms and focus on craft

You will create multiple iterations of proof-of-concept designs and prototypes and test the feasibility and validity of new solutions through all phases of the project

You will ensure that your designs are safe and effective across all user roles

You will learn, grow, and be challenged.

And, if we’re being honest (and we are), you will sometimes make tough compromises, find things take longer than you want them to, or need to work extra hard to convince a colleague of your position, or not get your way.

And sometimes, you will get frustrated that Oracle is still growing its design culture. But then you’ll remember, that you’re here to be a founding member of that design culture and help turn Oracle into the place you love to work and have one of the best professional experiences of your life.

Detailed Description and Job Requirements

18+ years of experience as a design professional, and 10+ years leading design teams.

Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in UX/UI Design, Digital Media Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or other design field.

Significant experience designing the UX and UI of creative authoring tools for designers or developers (ex: Photoshop, Sketch, Figma, Framer, Visual Studio, XCode, etc)

Significant experience designing high polish contemporary application UIs, visually rich information displays or dashboards, newsfeeds, and other content experiences.

Professional portfolio to present and communicate your approach, process, work, and accomplishments

We have studios in our Silicon Valley Redwood City and Pleasanton offices, Austin Texas, sunny Seattle, Washington, and Guadalajara, Mexico. Remote work could be an option. If you’re interested, please get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.

Disclaimer:Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations onlyUS: Hiring Range: from $142,900 to $338,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

Short term disability and long term disability

Life insurance and AD&D

Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.

11 paid holidays

Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Financial planning and group legal

Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.About UsAs a world leader in cloud solutions, Oracle uses tomorrow’s technology to tackle today’s problems. True innovation starts with diverse perspectives and various abilities and backgrounds.When everyone’s voice is heard, we’re inspired to go beyond what’s been done before. It’s why we’re committed to expanding our inclusive workforce that promotes diverse insights and perspectives.We’ve partnered with industry-leaders in almost every sector—and continue to thrive after 40+ years of change by operating with integrity.Oracle careers open the door to global opportunities where work-life balance flourishes. We offer a highly competitive suite of employee benefits designed on the principles of parity and consistency. We put our people first with flexible medical, life insurance and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by calling +1 888 404 2494, option one.Disclaimer:Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law. Which includes being a United States Affirmative Action Employer