Lead Experience Designer

UI/UX Design Lead

<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">What you'll do:</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Be a lead experience designer with hands on design skills and deep understanding of design process and methods.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Lead cross-functional teams on big design projects and products.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Work closely with business, tech, and customer folks to get things done.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Handle complex stuff, communicate clearly, and guide multiple teams.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Drive the design process and deliver awesome design solutions that meet business goals.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Create and showcase concepts that prove value to both the business and customers.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Own the product experience, champion design, talk to stakeholders, run design reviews, and spark innovation.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Your day-to-day responsibilities:</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Come up with lots of good design ideas.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Help brainstorm and work together on concepts.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Check the quality of solutions and how well they fit.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Give clear directions to your team.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Scope out competitor products, industry trends, and other relevant topics.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Stay in the loop about business, strategy, and how it's organized.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Understand what makes partners and stakeholders tick.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Guide design solutions within business and revenue model.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Think about how proposed solutions will impact the organization.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Create product experiences that match program vision and goals.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Spot the right design problems and opportunities in a brief.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Solve problems through design work and hands-on effort, while teaming up with leaders.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Make sure your and your team's work is super detailed.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Look for user insights and work with research teams to gather them (formal/informal, primary/secondary).</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Explain solutions to stakeholders using business language.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Be a confidence booster and motivator for your team.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Present design solutions and their reasoning persuasively to business partners and key stakeholders.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Mentor new team members and interns on design craft and process.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Stand up for your team and suggest ways to align design work with design goals.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Find chances to share your expertise with the broader design community.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Bonus points if you have:</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Design.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Portfolio is all professional work.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Experience leading design for multiple programs or products that shipped to a huge user base.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Experience designing for different platforms, audiences, and areas.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Proof that you helped make products successful.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● The ability to understand broader business, technical, and customer success factors and work with colleagues in those areas.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Experience mentoring other designers.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Tools you'll use:</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud tools, Sketch</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Other creative tools</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Skills you'll need:</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Core Design: User experience design (UX), interaction design, user interface design, information architecture and visualization, motion design, visual design, etc.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">● Soft Skills: Good articulation of thoughts and communication, good at negotiating and influencing, and creative at storytelling.</span></div>