Lead Product Designer

1 week ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Optus Full time

Lead Product Designer:

Date:11-Apr-2023

Location:
Sydney (Macquarie Park HQ), Australia

Company:
Singtel Group

So, why Optus?
At Optus, we don't sit back and let the future happen to us - we're out there making it. By expanding into new technology and relentlessly improving every day, we're creating a better tomorrow for all Australians.

We believe in the strength of a vibrant, diverse and inclusive workforce where backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people help us innovate and create strong connections with our customers.

We're looking for a superstar Lead Product Designer to work in our Design System team to deliver and lead the development and maintenance of our Optus Design System


As a Lead Product Designer, you're an expert in your craft with a drive to ensure the best customer experience is delivered to our customers.

You'll provide design leadership within your team and the broader Optus organisation.

You will also be a role model of Optus leadership fundamentals and demonstrate the attributes of a servant leader valuing diverse opinions, cultivating trust and encouraging contribution of new ideas.

You will be managing between 1 and 5 Product Designers including their recruitment, personal development and the performance cycle. Proactively mentoring and putting in place practices that encourage mastery of domain skills.

Key responsibilities:

  • Influence key stakeholder across the organisation on the importance of the design system and to promote a united vision for the design system
  • Identify and leverage opportunities for Practice, Chapter and Tribe members to adopt and contribute to the Design System. Foster discussions with others using the system
  • Collaborate with Product Designers in different work streams to support them in consuming and contributing to the Design System
  • Maintain the design system, create, and update documentation, and library components in Figma
  • Conduit to bridge gaps between UX/UI & development and broader stakeholder groups
  • Designing new and optimising customer journeys and interfaces, from lowdef to highdef artefacts including sketching, wireframing, interactive prototyping

About you:

  • 7+ years in Product Design or UX/UI role.
  • Demonstrated success in establishing design systems, component libraries, and reusable systems for multiple products within an organization.
  • Experience in unifying and maintaining a UI and UX design across multiple teams with differing goals and priorities—including developing, maintaining, documenting, and gaining adoption of pattern libraries.
  • Proven experience designing and launching for both desktop and mobile environments
  • Experience in project leadership and team mentoring


As a provider of essential services across Australia, Optus has a critical role in the community through keeping our customers connected to the people they love and the things that matter.

It is also our priority to ensure we provide our amazing people and our customers with a healthy and safe workplace environment.

In light of the significant risks posed by COVID-19, Optus expects all workers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and will require vaccination for certain roles as well as access to Optus workplaces.

Please speak to us if you have any questions about this policy or how it impacts you, including any concerns you might have about meeting this requirement.

Optus is a place where we let you do you.

Whether you'll be working in our corporate offices or in a retail store, we're a highly collaborative workplace, and offer a range of perks such as:

  • A competitive salary
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Ongoing training, mentoring and development opportunities
  • Up to five days of Volunteer Leave per year
  • Blended Ways of Working
We understand that flexibility means different things to different people.

We're proud to offer a variety of options to work in different ways, such as our Blended Ways of Working and job share.

Our Blended Ways of Working lets our people work across home and our offices. Please talk to us about how we can make this role work for you.

Curious about our culture? Go behind the scenes with our people by searching #OptusLife on LinkedIn.

**Please no recruitment agencies, we'll be managing this role in-house. Any resumes submitted outside of our process will be deemed the sole property of Optus.

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