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Job Description Summary:
The Coca‑Cola Company is transforming how its North America Supply Chain operates, using digital products to enable a supply chain that moves at the speed of the market. Our work connects planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and fulfillment into a responsive, reliable, and continuously improving network—one that can adapt quickly to change while operating at global scale.
Our product organization is built on small, empowered teams that move with clarity and purpose, making digital a true source of competitive advantage. Designers work side‑by‑side with Product and Engineering to shape how our ecosystem looks, feels, and works. If you’re excited to help build this practice and define the experience vision from the ground up, we’d love to meet you.
About the Role
The Head of Product Design & Research, Supply Chain Digital Enablement (North America) will build and lead the design and research practice that shapes how our supply chain products work, feel, and deliver value. You will set the experience vision across the end‑to‑end supply chain—translating deeply complex, operational workflows into intuitive, scalable, human‑centered digital experiences that improve speed, resilience, and service.
You will hire and grow the team that brings this vision to life, embedding design and research into empowered product teams. You believe great products come from tight collaboration, continuous learning, and strong design judgment. You will also guide how AI is used as a creative accelerant—unlocking new possibilities while maintaining high standards of craft, quality, and integrity.
Responsibilities
Set the Experience Vision
Define an end‑to‑end experience vision that enables a faster, more responsive, and continuously improving supply chain.
Champion simplicity, coherence, and usability across the portfolio
Establish design principles and standards that balance usability, operational rigor, and scalability.
Build and Lead the Design & Research Practice
Build an in-house design practice from the ground up, including hiring the founding designers and researchers
Define expectations, rituals, and ways of working within empowered product teams
Create a culture of critique, curiosity, and craft excellence
Embed Research and Design into Product Strategy and Discovery
Make user research a continuous, trusted input into strategy and prioritization.
Promote rapid prototyping, experimentation, and validation.
Use insight and storytelling to influence product direction and executive decision‑making.
Own Design Systems & Experience Architecture
Build a scalable design system that accelerates delivery and improves consistency
Define cross-product frameworks and shared UI patterns
Reduce fragmentation across journeys, tools, and workflows.
Design for a Connected Ecosystem
Design across digital, operational, and support touchpoints.
Translate complex workflows into simple, human-centered experiences
Ensure users experience one coherent, end‑to‑end supply chain ecosystem.
Guide the Use of AI in Design & Research
Define how AI supports exploration, prototyping, and insight generation
Maintain strong ethical, quality, and human‑centered standards.
Explore emerging AI-native interaction models
Key Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in design, HCI, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
10+ years in product design, UX, or experience design with a strong portfolio of shipped digital products
5+ years proven success building and scaling design and research teams in complex, enterprise or B2B environments
Strong capabilities across UX, interaction design, systems design, and visual design, with some familiarity in service design
Experience leading user research or working closely with dedicated researchers
Track record shaping strategy with Product and Engineering leaders
Experience building or scaling a design system
Ability to design for multi-role, multi-touchpoint, or ecosystem products
Familiarity with generative AI in design or research workflows
Exceptional storytelling, facilitation, and communication skills
Leadership Attributes
Experience vision and clarity.
Defines how experiences should work and feel, brings coherence to complex spaces, and helps teams understand what great looks like.
Builder of design talent and practice.
Builds the in-house design and research team from the ground up, develops craft and capability, and establishes a modern design culture.
Influence and cross-functional leadership.
Builds trust across Product, Engineering, and business teams, shaping strategy and decisions through insight, narrative, and thoughtful critique.
Systems thinking and quality.
Creates the frameworks and patterns that ensure experiences are simple, unified, and scalable, and holds a high bar for craft and usability.
Skills:
Pay Range:
United States of America: 217,400 USD - 245,300 USDBase pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.
Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:
50Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.
Long-term Incentive Reference Value Percentage:
20Long-term Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role.
Location(s):
United States of AmericaCity/Cities:
AtlantaTravel Required:
00% - 25%Relocation Provided:
YesJob Posting End Date:
July 31, 2026Our Purpose and Growth Culture:
We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.
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