Director of Design Education Looking For Director of Design Education JOB At Houston, TX Full Time

Job Profile Summary

At bp, we’re striving to meet the growing global demand for safe, sustainable, and affordable energy. A career in digital design is an opportunity to grow and deliver innovation at pace while shaping the future of bp.

Our bphxd (Human Experience Design) team is passionate about designing for a digital and sustainable future and putting humans at the heart of design. As part of the team, you’ll be transforming bp to a more efficient business that makes the best possible use of all its resources in pursuit of our net zero ambition. You’ll also help to develop new businesses, products, and services, delivering progressive projects and growing your talent in all kinds of new and exciting ways within the digital heart of bp.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Design Education Director to joinour bphxd team.

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We are looking for a Design Education Lead to join our fast-growing Design team to support them create a world-class Design Education programme. We’re seeking a results-oriented individual who can help shape design teams and processes, ensuring that designers have the right training and expertise to create awesome experiences.

Your Accountabilities

• Build a world class design education curriculum and learning programme to support designers, stakeholder, and external parties.
• Work across all levels of the organization to create tailored learning experiences relevant to the users’ needs
• Build a network of trainers from within the design organization to support the learning curriculum
• Draw on real world examples from the organisation to support the learning objectives
• Encourage design teams to engage with bp’s career development framework and to use resources to facilitate career conversations.
• Monitor and forecast the future training demand, and map these against cost and business objectives.
• Collate and communicate design education metrics, benchmarks and objectives to the wider organization to help articulate the value and impact of design education.
• Collate, contribute to and encourage the adoption of design methods and playbooks to grow design capability across bp.

About you

You’ll contribute and lead areas such as crafting the design culture and processes and collaborate on big and meaningful design challenges. You have:

• Desire to join a dynamic and diverse team that is transforming bp, and the energy industry.
• Experience of working in a complex business environment supporting projects working to tight deadlines.
• Experience working in-house or at a design agency, with a focus on design operations.
• A structured approach to work and are an advocate for user-centred design.
• Experience with design programme management.
• Knowledge of agile, Lean UX or product methodologies and experience working in a collaborative environment.

Why join bp

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and ambitious environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options (60% office, 40% remote), a generous compensation package, paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!

Entity

Innovation & Engineering

Job Family Group

IT&S Group

Relocation available

No

Travel required

Yes – up to 10%

Country

United Kingdom, United States of America

About BP

INNOVATION & ENGINEERING

Join us in creating, growing, and delivering innovation at pace, enabling us to thrive while transitioning to a net zero ‎world. All without compromising our operational risk management.

Working with us, you can do this by:

• deploying our integrated capability and standards in service of our net zero and ‎safety ambitions
• driving our digital transformation and pioneering new business models
• collaborating to deliver competitive customer-focused energy solutions
• originating, scaling and commercialising innovative ideas, and creating ground-breaking new ‎businesses from them
• protecting us by assuring management of our greatest physical and digital risks

Because together we are:

• Originators, builders, guardians and disruptors
• Engineers, technologists, scientists and entrepreneurs‎
• Empathetic, curious, creative and inclusive

Legal disclaimer

If you are selected for a position in the United States, your employment will be contingent upon submission to and successful completion of a post-offer/pre-placement drug test(and alcohol screening/medical examination if required by the role) as well as pre-placement verification of the information and qualifications provided during the selection process. The drug screen requires a hair test for which BP must be able to obtain a sufficient hair sample for analysis (~4 cm/1 ½” scalp, or > 2 cm/¾” body – arms & armpits/legs/chest)

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