Director, UX & Product Design
Negotiable
Location
Liberia, Maryland
Job Description
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JOB SUMMARY
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The Director, Associate UX – Revenue Strategy
plays a critical role in creating industry-leading associate-facing (employee,
owner- and franchise-facing) digital experiences across the full portfolio
of Marriott brands. The ideal candidate must be able to think strategically,
obsess about the associate and implement at scale, all while fostering cohesion
across the customer and associate journey.
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This role serves as the Design Lead
for Marriott's Revenue Strategy domain, leading design strategy across
a portfolio of enterprise products that support pricing, inventory management,
forecasting, yield management, and revenue optimization. Partnering closely
with Product, Revenue Management, Data & Analytics, and Technology leaders,
the Director translates complex revenue strategies into intuitive,
decision-centric product experiences that help associates make better decisions
every day.
The Director
provides design leadership across multiple interconnected products within
the portfolio, with particular focus on Adaptive Pricing and Inventory &
Yield solutions, ensuring experiences work together as a cohesive ecosystem
rather than independent tools. This highly visible leadership role
is responsible for establishing the experience vision across the domain,
influencing product strategy and roadmaps, guiding prioritization decisions,
and driving a consistent design approach across Marriott's revenue management
platforms. The successful candidate will help shape the next generation
of data-driven decision-support tools, solving complex enterprise challenges
at global scale while advancing meaningful business and revenue outcomes.
The ideal candidate
has experience rooted in an empathetic understanding of both the associate’s
physical and digital environments with a keen focus on data-driven,
best-in-class product design from both the travel industry and other key
disruptors/innovators (think mobile, Web, voice, etc.).
This UX leader acts as a senior thought partner to Product and Domain
leadership, influencing product vision, roadmap sequencing,
and experience-driven prioritization decisions across the Revenue Strategy
portfolio.
A strong
portfolio is critical. Your portfolio should showcase experience in UX
and interaction design, particularly highlighting simplicity and ease of use.
Diversity of projects is as important as curation to choose a solid collection
of outcomes. Candidates should be prepared to discuss their role in leading
and executing the work included in the portfolio.
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CANDIDATE PROFILE
Education
and ExperienceRequired
- 8+ years experience in digital product design, with demonstrated
leadership experience across platforms
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- 5+ years of experience as a project
lead
- 4-year
undergraduate degree, with bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline,
or equivalent experience
- Demonstrated success in end-to-end UX design for specific digital
products; ideally with associate/employee-facing and/or enterprise products
- Solid
background/understanding of UX, design thinking, methodology, and design
operations; passion for DesignOps and how to build, scale, train, and refine
teams, tools, and processes/deliverables
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- Proven experience delivering concepts,
user flows/ journeys, wireframes, prototypes, etc. across platforms (desktop,
mobile web, app, etc.) with inclusivity in mind
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- Provides oversight and direction
to achieve a cohesive user experience that fosters synergy between the digital
and physical experience
- Understands and advocates for associate needs and how those manifests
through digital experiences
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- Promotes UX best practices drawn from
a variety of disciplines (within and beyond hospitality)
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across product areas to ensure journey-wide synergy
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visuals and deliverables
- Oversees the design work with resources both internal to Marriott
and external
Education and Experience Preferred
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of others
- Demonstrated strong presentation, negotiation, and persuasion skills
- Demonstrates
self-confidence, energy, and enthusiasm in leading and influencing teams
- Is adept
at explaining complicated concepts through clear visuals to facilitate
understanding across the organization
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with cross-functional teams in support of specific business priorities, work
well with counterparts from various business functions, and influencing work
of counterparts without direct reporting accountability, through strong
interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated ability to deliver results under challenging conditions,
breaking complexity into understandable chunks, bringing ambiguity into focus
- Ability
to solve problems quickly, think creatively, and drive speed-to-market delivery,
while optimizing outcomes
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and transactional design best practices
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large-scale, omni-channel digital platform design and development initiatives,
ideally for a major, large-scale global digital app, web site, or other digital
product within the commerce or travel space.
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development methodologies preferred
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offshore resources preferred
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to the evolving design system
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style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> CORE WORK ACTIVITIES
style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> Goals
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goals and works with leadership to set team goals
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and maintaining personal development goals and provides feedback on progress
to goals through review process
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and leadership to help meet department and company goals and KPIs
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and Policies
- Meets deadlines once agreed upon; ensures teams and directs also meet
deadlines
- Provides regular status updates through appropriate channels
- Successfully leads multiple
tracks of work at once
- Works based on priorities and ensures teams and direct reports
are clear on their own priorities
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of others in a helpful and professional manner
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and appropriate manner
Executing
and Supporting Design
- Produces sketches, wireframes, personas, journey maps, flows, designs,
motion specs, prototypes and/or presentations as needed to communicate
experience design
- Produces both innovative high-level design concepts as well
as development-ready designs with specifications
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digital products by participating in the user acceptance testing process
- Employ prototyping,
user testing and research to inform your design work and thinking
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solutions and rationale
- Engage in critiques as well as share new learnings and case studies
- Manage
and contribute to the evolving design system
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ways for the team to be more effective
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documentation
Revenue
Strategy Design Leadership
- Shape and evolve the experience vision for Revenue Strategy products,
aligning design decisions across the domain, supporting OKRs and economic
outcomes
- Lead
design thinking for complex Revenue Strategy decisions, balancing usability
with analytical rigor
- Ensure experiences across products reflect a shared mental model
for how revenue decisions are made
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leaders to influence roadmaps, prioritization, and tradeoff decisions
- Leads work done by both internal associates and external vendors
- Manages vendor
relationships
- Provides oversight and leadership for multiple tracks of work, providing
quality feedback to both internal associates and vendor resources to move design
work forward
- Thinks and works at both the strategic and executional levels; sees both
the “forest” and the “trees” and guides teams accordingly
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Knowledge
- Where appropriate, communicates through rapid hand sketched interfaces
and flows rather than more time-consuming deliverables.
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on key functional systems to help shepherd strategic initiatives from idea
to feasible implementation
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on Associate Experience including associate needs and interactions to ensure
optimal infusion throughout digital products
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style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> - Provides information architecture /
user experience / visual design oversight through review and critique for all
products to promote a cohesive user experience
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design concepts / strategy visualizations as well as development-ready designs
with specifications
- Partners closely with the Customer User Experience to ensure continuity
across Customer and Associate channels, where applicable.
- Works collaboratively with other
sub-disciplines in User Experience as well as other teammates across
the organization
- Keeps skills up-to-date on industry trends and applies new knowledge to job,
identifying strategic opportunities for competitive advantages through
those findings
Measurement
and Analytics
- With an evidence-based mindset, stay focused on continuously improving
and re-evaluating the best business and user experience solutions across all
channels and products
- Comfortable with multiple qualitative and quantitative research
methods, like surveys, usability testing, multivariate testing, A/B testing,
etc.
- Ability
to take qual/quant dashboards/results and translate into an actionable design
strategy
- Uses
tracking, metrics, segment data, and user research to inform design decisions
- Collaborates
with product managers to ensure priorities align with business objectives
and KPIs
- Uses
various user research methodologies to get design feedback and iterates designs
based on findings
- Breaks down designs into options/variables for A/B or multi-variate testing
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Knowledge
- Understands web technologies and principles— like responsive design,
front-end markup and libraries such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and Ajax
methods, plus Content Management Systems, Web Services, Salesforce, and APIs—and
uses this knowledge in collaboration with developers
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behind guest communications (email and chat), guest services (check-in/out,
service requests, shuttle service), venue applications (dining, spa, golf),
guest room entertainment, smart screens, property portal and internet services,
etc. and uses this in collaboration with developers and operations teams working
on related business processes
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tools such as Figma, Sketch and Invision DSM and uses this knowledge
in extending and maintaining a Design System
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and applies new knowledge to job
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- Works and leads
independently with minimal supervision, but knows when issues should
be escalated to manager
- Foster relationships with key partners within and beyond the digital
space
- Presents
work with clarity and confidence; explains complex matters so that others
can understand
- Uses appropriate communication mechanisms (i.e. in-person conversation,
Microsoft Teams chat, email, phone call) for each situation
- Demonstrates self-confidence,
energy and enthusiasm
- Performs other reasonable duties as assigned by manager
At Marriott International, we are dedicated to
being an equal opportunity employer, welcoming all and providing access
to opportunity. We actively foster an environment where the unique backgrounds
of our associates are valued and celebrated.
Our greatest strength lies in the rich blend of culture, talent, and experiences
of our associates. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected
basis, including disability, veteran status, or other basis protected
by applicable law.
All positions offer a 401(k) plan, stock
purchase plan, discounts at Marriott properties, commuter benefits, employee
assistance plan, and childcare discounts. Benefits are subject to terms
and conditions, which may include rules regarding eligibility, enrollment,
waiting period, contribution, benefit limits, election changes, benefit
exclusions, and others. Click
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Full-time positions also offer coverage for medical, dental,
vision, health care flexible spending account, dependent care flexible spending
account, life insurance, disability insurance, accident insurance, adoption
expense reimbursements, paid parental leave and educational assistance.
Washington Applicants Only: Employees
will accrue paid sick leave, 0.077 PTO balance for every hour worked and
be eligible to receive a minimum of 9 holidays annually.
Marriott HQ is committed to a hybrid work environment
that enables associates to Be connected. Headquarters-based positions
are considered hybrid, for candidates within a commuting distance to Bethesda,
MD; candidates outside of commuting distance to Bethesda, MD will be considered
for Remote positions.
Marriott International is the world’s largest
hotel company, with more brands, more hotels and more opportunities
for associates to grow and succeed. Be where you can do your best work,
begin your purpose, belong to an amazing global team,
and become the best version of you.
We have an extraordinary portfolio of brands, with over 9,700 hotels and resorts under more than 30 preferred brands in the industry, covering 143 countries and regions, offering a richer selection for you to feel, experience, and explore the world.
