Manager, UX Digital Strategist

THE OPPORTUNITY

The UX Strategist in the Digital Experience Optimization team at adidas will join a team of optimization managers working to improve the end-to-end digital customer experience. As a UX Strategist at adidas, you will be a highly influential partner advocating for user-centric problem solving across the organization. The aspiration is to define experiences that will maximize consumer engagement, revenue, and advocacy for adidas, and to share this guidance with all functional partners who contribute to the resulting digital experience.

As a UX Strategist at adidas you are responsible for providing strategic recommendations for building cross-functional, high quality user experiences, bringing recommendations to life in the form of insights summaries, sketches, concepts, and prototypes. You will work closely with your Experience Optimization Manager to validate if the concepts and solutions delivered meet the desired user experiences. In partnership with your team, you will document the validated concepts and solutions and socialize with relevant teams.

Working in close collaboration with Experience Optimization, Experience Analytics, User Research, Global Experience Design and product teams, Site Operations, and local cross-functional partners, you will leverage your expert knowledge to influence consistent experiences end-to-end within a single area of focus: Wayfinding, Storytelling, or User Confidence. Within this scope, you will consult stakeholders on user-first thinking and a user-first approach to problem solving.

Key responsibilities:

Scope: Accountable for strategic and operational experience deliverables and services, within one of the following areas of focus: Upper Funnel: Wayfinding & Storytelling, or Lower Funnel + Horizontal: User Confidence.

1. Discovery Process & Experience Optimization

• Lead the discovery process for your respective area of focus, pulling in relevant partners to collaborate in developing a deep understanding of user goals, behaviors, context, and expectations connected to our business.
• Transform insights into business opportunities and value-adding capabilities, partnering closely with Experience Analytics to quantify the business case.
• In partnership with AB Testing & Personalization leads, translate insights and business opportunities into test designs which align with user goals, behaviors, and context.
• In partnership with AB Testing & Personalization leads, optimize consumer-facing digital solutions within your area of responsibility, leveraging user testing, A/B & multivariate testing, NPS, and analytics reports.
• Lead User-First & Design Thinking with functional partner and Product Owner communities, sharing knowledge and best practices while influencing ways of working.

2. Experience Strategy

• Through the creation of experience and journey maps, orchestrate user experiences across multiple product teams to ensure alignment with organization objectives.
• Leverage existing consumer insights or request necessary quantitative and qualitative analysis to understand the value drivers for the consumer.
• Partner on a regular basis with the User Research team to influence future consumer research.
• Architect and facilitate discovery workshops and innovation efforts at the broad topic level, covering: Wayfinding, Storytelling, or Confidence topics.
• Document any validated experience standards.
• Socialize and share the validated experience standards with relevant partners to inform cross-functional strategy.

3. Experience Innovation

• Research market trends to identify and propose disruptions or key features that address customer problems and improve product value.
• Demonstrate technical & UX thought leadership and deliver experience recommendations in alignment with UX best practice and business needs.

"If required" Responsibilities

1. UX Research

• Conduct research on digital user experience to identify consumer insights and translate the findings to digital creative briefs & recommendations.
• Execute remote, in-house, moderated, un-moderated (formal & informal) usability testing and user research.

1. UX Copy

• Ensure that all digital experience, content, and copy are locally relevant, consumer-oriented, impactful, and on-brand.

• Provide cross-functional teams with guidelines, recommendations, and best practices for copy onsite

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Our UX Strategists are passionate, outspoken advocates for our users' needs, who aren't afraid to shake things up. We want innovators and experts who can help mature our practice and create delightful experiences that feel distinctly adidas.

Requirements

1. Education & Experience

• 3+ years of experience in the area of digital experience strategy, experience design, UX content design, or similar experience
• Experience in digital and/ or eCommerce environment
• A sample of work that demonstrates your approach to problem solving
• Knowledge of A/B testing, user testing, and experience analytics
• Experience presenting and defending your ideas to partners and leadership
• An interest in UX Copywriting is a plus
• Valid experience in growing businesses and achieving bottom line results in a commercial world is a plus

1. Soft-Skills

• Good communication skills, comfortable presenting complex topics to functional partners at various organizational levels both in person and remotely
• Take initiative to learn and adapt to new insights and frameworks
• Creative and energetic team player who has a passion for user-centered design

1. Hard-Skills

• Comfortable working with enterprise-level platforms and technologies
• Knowledge about reporting tools, KPI creation and extracting insights from complex dashboards Power Bi, Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics
• Experience working with Sketch, Figma, Miro or other relevant collaborative design tools
• Fluent English both verbally and written

ABOUT US

At adidas we believe that through sport, we have the power to change lives.

Our ambition is to be the best sport brand in the world and with that comes plenty of challenges. We thrive on solving these with the imagination and experience of our incredible teammates.