**Job Title**: Senior Design Lead
Philips is a global leader in health technology, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide and striving to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation.
Driven by the vision of a better tomorrow.
But it's not just what we do, it's who we are.
We are 80,000, wonderfully unique individuals, with two things in common.
An unwavering sense of purpose and a relentless determination to deliver on our customers' needs.
It's what inspires us to create meaningful solutions - the kind that make a real difference - when it matters most.
The world and our customers' needs are changing faster than ever before and while we are proud of what we do already, we know we can do more.
That's why we need you, to help us tackle increasingly complex challenges posed by ever evolving health and well-being needs.
**In this role, you have the opportunity to make life better**
Looking at the challenges the world is facing today Philips' purpose has never been more relevant.
So whatever your role, if you share our passion for helping others, you'll be working towards creating a better and fairer future for all.
**You are a part of**:
Philips Experience Design, established in 1925, and one of the longest-established design organizations in the world.
It has studios across the globe - in Amsterdam, Bangalore, Cambridge (US), Eindhoven, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Shanghai and Singapore - and a creative growing force of 450 professionals.
The Principal Technology lead in this team will lead the front-end developers and design technologists and will closely work together with the Design lead of the existing UX design team, operating as one team.
The Principal technology lead will report to the overall Experience director lead of the Cross-platforms design team, the design technologists and front-end developers of this team will report to the Principal technology lead.
**You are responsible for**:
The Design Lead champions compliance with General Business Principles in the market place;
- Daily demonstration of the highest level of Philips Leadership competencies and our behaviors;
- Ensures full adherence and integrity of business operation according internal/external requirements and standards;
- Role models our General Business Principles as a fundamental part of our behaviors and takes pro-active measures throughout Philips to ensure compliance with the GBP;
- You bring an up-to-date perspective on what is possible with a given technology, including learning about tech stacks with deep dives into their capabilities;
- You establish data flows for realistic experiences and quantified learning;
- You can quickly create interactive demos for design consideration and user testing;
- You can communicate how 'things' work to diverse stakeholders, using narrative, demonstration, and coaching;
- You create technical proofs-of-concept to assist engineering teams in realizing design intent;
- You have a solid understanding of software development methodologies and can support efficient workflows between design and engineering teams;
- You can lead a team of design as a new capability in Philips XD.
**To succeed in this role, you'll need a customer-first attitude and the following e**xperience**:
- Experience in developing for large software systems and platforms;
- Experience working with Design Systems;
- Experience working in Agile software development;
- Experience with working closely with or embedded in design teams;
- Experience directing a team of designers;
- Solid communication, negotiation and resilience skills;
- Solid experience with people management;
- English advancing reading, speaking and writing.
- Acts as a role-model for our Philips behaviors: Customer first, Quality & Integrity always, Team up to Win, Take Ownership to deliver fast, Eager to improve and inspire
The mindset we expect from you is to bring your positive energy to create impact on a large scale, while keeping a close eye on details and consistency.
Your focus will be on harmonizing and aligning different experiences to unify these.
We expect you to think in solutions with a can-do attitude.
**Availability required to reside in Blumenau/SC**
**All our opportunities have people with disabilities as a priority.
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**In return, we offer you**
A path towards your most rewarding career.
In Philips Design we always believe in the transformational power of Design in making our world healthier and more sustainable.
We are an integral and valuable part of the organisation and its long heritage.
Succeeding in this role in a complex environment will open many doors for your long-term career, within Philips Design, in other areas in Philips or otherwise.
We also believe that we are at our best as a company when you are at yours as a person.
Thus, we offer competitive health benefits, a flexible work schedule and access to local well-being focused activities.
**Our hybrid working model