Our client, a leader in environmental, social and governance reporting platforms is seeking a Lead UX Designer to join their team.
As a Lead User Experience (UX) Designer you will drive the user experience across a defined area of their platform, taking lead on high-impact challenges that ultimately delight our customers. You are exceptional in leading product discovery with your team, transforming ill-defined opportunities into innovative experiences that solve deeper user needs. You will be responsible for coordinating the work of other UX designers in your product area, making critical group-level design decisions. You are well-versed in communicating vision across teams and upper management to build consensus.
This role is open to U.S. remote.
What You’ll Do
- Ensure intuitive user experiences across a defined product area, driving innovation, and delighting customers.
- Partner with research to lead customer interviews and testing to synthesize into design constraints and ideas
- Facilitate empathy building activities, ideation, and design critique. Look past obvious solutions to solve deeper problems.
- Craft vision and evangelize to stakeholders.
- Prototyping and testing are core to your design process, iteratively progressing toward the desired business and user outcomes.
- Drive planning for cross-product, multi-team, multi-designer projects.
- Proactively partner with engineering across multiple product areas to drive product quality.
- Ensure success metrics are defined and revisited after deployment in order to iterate on delivered solutions
- Coach and mentor other designers.
What You’ll Need
Education
- Undergraduate Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in a related field.
- Related fields include Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience Design, Software Engineering, Psychology, and Technical Communication
Skills
- Expert level user-centered design skills and systems thinking.
- Proven collaboration and facilitation skills.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Exceptional interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills.
- Innovative thinking, empathy, and a desire to continuously learn and evolve.
- Excellent at building consensus across multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Solid with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, XD, Sketch, Axure, etc.
- Ability to create and maintain working relationships with a geographically distributed team
Experience
- 7+ years of professional UX experience, shipping multiple successful products
- Experience leading alongside engineering and product management in a Lean UX / Agile software development environment
- Passion for making high-quality, user-centered products and a demonstrable portfolio to prove it
- Experience directing and mentoring other designers