UX/UI Design Manager - Digital Solutions

Orica; Richmond; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Orica invites an experienced UX/UI Design Manager to lead the Digital Solutions team. You will own the design system, set standards, and partner with product, technology, and business to deliver intuitive, scalable digital products.

You\'ll coach designers, oversee research, and promote usability across complex platforms, ensuring outcomes align with strategic goals and customer needs. This role requires a decade of UX/UI leadership, a strong design portfolio, and a collaborative, agile mindset

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design, Graphic Design, HCI, Digital Design or related field; leadership or qualifications desirable.
• 10+ years of UX/UI or digital product design experience with leadership.
• Track record delivering digital solutions across complex products or platforms.
• Experience with product and engineering in an agile delivery environment.
• Experience managing people with coaching and development planning.
• Strong knowledge of interaction design, information architecture, prototyping, usability and research.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop the UX/UI design team with clear expectations and development opportunities.
• Build and maintain a modern Design System guiding patterns and components across products.
• Define and improve the UX/UI operating model, standards, tools and governance.
• Right-size design process to each product context with shared principles.
• Coordinate design capacity across multiple products, aligning with agile delivery.
• Communicate design impact and trade-offs to stakeholders across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Promote user research and translate insights into product decisions and improvements.
• Improve user workflows to be smoother and more fit-for-purpose.
• Use feedback and outcomes to enhance the design practice and customer experience.

Skills

People leadership

Design systems

Design leadership

Design maturity

Resourcing & collaboration

Stakeholder engagement

Research & insight

Workflows & usability

Continuous improvement

Figma proficiency

Interaction design

Information architecture

Prototyping

Usability testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Figma

Job description

UX/UI Design Manager - Digital Solutions

At Orica, it’s the power of our people that leads change and shapes our futures. Every day, all around the world, our people help mobilise vital resources essential to progress. Established in 1874, we have grown to become the world leader in mining and civil blasting with a diverse of team of more than 14,000 across the world.

It’s an exciting time to join us – we are shaping the future of mining through digital and automated technologies, embracing new ways of thinking, pioneering innovation and reimagining the way we work.

The UX/UI Design Manager leads and develops a team of UX/UI designers while providing design leadership, operational oversight, and direction across Orica Digital Solutions. This role owns and evolves the design system, ensuring a consistent and user-centered experience across digital products. Working closely with Product, Technology, and Business teams, the UX/UI Design Manager aligns design priorities with strategic objectives, enabling the delivery of intuitive, scalable, and commercially effective solutions.

• People Leadership:Lead, mentor and develop the ODS UX/UI design team through clear expectations, feedback, capability planning and development opportunities.
• Design System: Build and maintain a modern ODS Design System that serves as the UX/UI guidelines, patterns and components for existing and new products, giving teams across the organisation autonomy and consistency.
• Design Leadership: Define and continuously improve the UX/UI operating model, ways of working, standards, tools and governance required for an effective design practice.
• Design Maturity: Right-size design system maturity and process to each product's context (team composition, tech stack, deadlines, resourcing), favouring shared principles over prescriptive process.
• Resourcing & Collaboration: Work with designers, product managers and engineering to understand budgets, priorities and complexity, providing clarity on design tasks and investment, ensuring design depth connects directly with delivery. Coordinating design capacity across multiple products, favouring agile delivery and validation.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build confidence across technical and non-technical audiences by communicating the impact design activities have on the overall product performance, and the rationale behind design decisions and trade-offs.
• Research and Insight: Promote user research and ensure insights are translated into product decision enablers and design improvement opportunities.
• Workflows & Usability: Champion continuous improvement of user workflows, ensuring released workflows are smoother, more usable, and fit-for-purpose for end-users.
• Continuous Improvement:Use feedback, delivery evidence and product outcomes to improve the design practice, team effectiveness and overall customer experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Design, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience. Relevant domain, technical, leadership or professional qualifications are desirable.
• 10+ years of relevant UX/UI or digital product design experience, including demonstrated leadership experience.
• A record of delivering digital solutions across complex digital products or platforms.
• Experience working with product and engineering teams in an agile delivery environment, including managing competing priorities, constant changes and trade-offs.
• Experience managing people, including setting expectations, coaching, development planning and addressing capability needs.
• Strong knowledge of interaction and interface design, information architecture, prototyping, usability and user research methodologies.
• Experience establishing or maintaining design systems, libraries, guidelines and standards.
• Proficiency with Figma and relevant design, prototyping, collaboration and research tools.
• Builds trust through integrity, transparency and consistent follow-through.
• Provides clear direction while remaining open to evidence, feedback and alternative perspectives.
• Demonstrates strong judgement, courage, resilience and adaptability in ambiguous or changing environments.
• Works effectively across organisational boundaries and resolves differences constructively.
• Is organised, pragmatic and able to make timely decisions while maintaining attention to detail.
• Influences without relying solely on authority and creates shared ownership across disciplines.

As part of a truly global company, you will have the ability to grow and learn in a diverse, collaborative culture. We foster relationships and learning through connected global and local teams, promote flexible and diverse career paths and support the development of your knowledge and skills.

You will be paid a competitive salary, learn from talented individuals across multiple disciplines and be able to thrive in a safe workplace within a collaborative culture. Ignite your career at a place where your distinct potential can find its home.

Orica promotes and fosters a culture of inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment everywhere we operate. We treat our people and applicants with fairness, dignity, and respect, getting the best of everyone’s contributions.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, nationality, age, military or veteran, marital or disability status.