Design Chapter Leader - Digital Buildings

DB Design Lead

Senior Design Leadership Position - Digital Buildings Design Manager

Position Overview

Join Schneider Electric as our Digital Buildings Design Engineering Leader - a pivotal leadership role at the intersection of industrial design excellence and digital transformation.

Leading a distributed team of designers across multiple regions, you will report directly to the CTO of Digital Buildings with a dotted line to the global design leader for Digital Energy.
This strategic position bridges our mission of helping customers achieve decarbonization, resiliency, and efficiency through digitalization with our commitment to creating consistent, impactful user experiences.

Leadership & Management Responsibilities

Executive-Level Leadership: Drive strategic design direction for the Digital Buildings business unit while collaborating with senior leadership level stakeholders.

Team Development: Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing distributed design team across multiple time zones and cultures.

Career Advancement: Foster professional growth through structured goal setting, performance reviews, and personalized development plans, embrace Education/Exposure/Experience style growth for the team.

Cross-Functional Leadership: Establish productive partnerships with Offer Management, Engineering, and Business stakeholders.

Organizational Influence: Advocate for design excellence at the highest levels of the organization, drive cultural transformation.

Strategic Delegation: Balance personal involvement with appropriate delegation for team growth and production efficiency, hands on leadership.

Industrial Design & Technical Requirements

Industrial Product Experience: Demonstrated expertise in complex B2B industrial software design, preferably in building automation or energy management systems.

Technical Fluency: Deep understanding of building automation systems, industrial control interfaces, and energy management platforms

Global Design Systems: Lead adoption and evolution of Schneider's Quartz design system while contributing industrial specific patterns and components.

Technical Integration: Bridge design excellence with technical feasibility, working closely with development teams.

Data-Driven Design: Implement sophisticated measurement frameworks and analytics to drive continuous improvement in industrial applications.

Core Responsibilities

Translate complex industrial workflows into intuitive user experiences

Align Digital Building design patterns with Schneider Electric's brand and global design systems

Define experience strategies that balance technical complexity with usability

Ensure business objectives and design goals are mutually reinforcing

Provide strategic design input to product roadmaps

Lead design critiques and quality assurance processes

Balance discovery and delivery resources within development schedules

Advocate for user-centered approaches while understanding technical constraints

Qualifications...