UI/UX Design Lead

Description -

This role is responsible for managing the overall user experience design strategy, ensuring it aligns with company objectives and user needs. The role leads teams of experienced designers in crafting digital user experiences that seamlessly blend visual design excellence, fluid interaction design, and functionality. The role drives design excellence and fosters a culture of creativity, innovation, and collaboration, with a particular focus on elevating visual craft, motion design, and interaction fidelity across all touchpoints. The role provides visionary design direction, setting a high standard for user experience design, visual design, and usability. The role assigns projects, sets priorities, and ensures timely and high-quality deliverables.

Responsibilities:

• Develops a future vision that continuously balances the needs of the user, business objectives and requirements, and is also technically feasible, while demonstrating proper use of the organization's design system, including its visual language, motion principles, and interaction patterns.
• Champions the development and evolution of visual design standards (typography, color, iconography, layout systems) and interaction/animation guidelines (transitions, micro-interactions, motion timing and easing) to ensure consistency across products.
• Leads UX and visual design for Android-based devices - ensuring designs account for hardware, display/input variants, and software-hardware co-design tradeoffs.
• Partners with engineering, design teams, and platform/software leads to align UX decisions across the product lifecycle, from concept through launch.
• Creates user experience goals, priorities, and deliverables that align with product milestones, coordinates multiple projects to completion, and drives adoption of user experience, visual design, and motion/interaction design practices.
• Partners with engineering to ensure animation and interaction specifications are feasible, performant, and faithfully implemented from prototype to production.

Education & Experience Recommended:

• Four-year or Graduate Degree in Design, Human Factors Engineering, Social Sciences research, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
• Typically has 10+ years of job-related experience or 8-10 years of management experience, preferably in design principles, human factors engineering, social sciences research, or a related field.

Preferred Certifications:

• Certified User Experience Professional (CUXP)

Knowledge & Skills:

• Agile Methodology
• Animation Principles & Motion Design
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Design Thinking
• Figma (Design Software)
• Information Architecture
• Interaction Design
• InVision (Design Software)
• Micro-interactions & Motion Prototyping
• Product Design
• Prototyping (including high-fidelity interactive/animated prototypes)
• Typography & Visual Craft
• Usability
• Usability Testing
• User Experience (UX)
• User Experience (UX) Design
• User Flows
• User Interface (UI)
• User Interface (UI) Design
• User Research
• User-Centered Design
• Visual Design
• Wireframing

Cross-Org Skills:

• Customer Centricity
• Prioritization
• Resilience
• Team Management
• Strategic Thinking

Impact & Scope:

• Impacts large functions and leads projects requiring knowledge of multiple disciplines or areas.

Complexity:

• Uses managerial concepts and company objectives to resolve highly complex issues in creative and effective ways. May achieve goals through subordinate supervisors.

Job:

• Software

Schedule:

• Full time

Shift:

• No shift premium

Skills

Figma, Interaction Design, UI, UX