Full-Time Lead UX/UI Designer

What You’ll Do: 

As a leader and maker, you’ll be asked to handle responsibilities, including:

Strategy & Planning

• Guiding team members in strategy, research, alignment, analysis, design critiques, and design execution tasks
• Collaborating with technology, product, and business teams to uncover customer and business needs, then translating them into engaging, simple, and intuitive design solutions and understandable concepts that evolve and enhance the product interface and experience 
• Engaging in portfolio prioritization to help set the strategy and product road map for the team
• Managing through shifting priorities to provide clear direction and input on product prioritization and support early product definition 
• Advocating for the customer through human-centered design methods, including: discovery, research, whiteboard sessions, and user testing
• Championing prioritization of design centered product enhancements grounded in research and analysis
• Working with partners and teams across various geographies
• Embracing and advocating for an experience mindset - this is as important to the work as the results

Discovering & Delivering

• Supporting early product definition by working with partners to facilitate discovery sessions that uncover customer pain points and opportunities 
• Demonstrating familiarity with design tools to deliver concepts and enable successful collaboration across teams 

Driving end-to-end product design by:

• Conduct research to understand customer needs and define opportunities  through usability and empathy studies and analyzing data trends
• Framing problems, defining insights, and designing new methodologies/practices to serve customer needs
• Creating process and user flows, wireframes, journey maps, and interaction models, resulting in low to high fidelity prototypes
• Planning and facilitating workshops with internal and external stakeholders to align with business needs
• Designing within existing — and creating new — standards to contribute to our internal design system, best practices, and guidelines
• Storytelling through business acumen and presenting visual concepts to various stakeholders
• Creating high fidelity design assets for acceptance, development, and delivery to market in partnership with technology colleagues

Basic Qualifications

• At least 6 years of experience with UX design

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing for cross channel experiences
• Experience supporting complex, data heavy experiences
• Experience working with a variety of business partners and delivering outcomes
• Familiarity with design and prototyping tools, such as Adobe Products, Sketch and/or Figma
• Familiarity with working and contributing to an established design system
• Experience managing a cross-functional team