Lead UX Designer

Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

Role Overview:

We are looking for a highly experienced Lead UI/UX Designer with 6–10 years of experience in designing intuitive, user-centered, and visually compelling digital experiences.

The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in UI/UX design, user research, wireframing, prototyping, design systems, and usability improvement. The candidate will work closely with product managers, engineering teams, business stakeholders, and end users to translate complex requirements into simple, effective, and consistent user experiences.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the end-to-end UI/UX design process from user research and requirement understanding through design, validation, and implementation.
- Understand business objectives, user needs, workflows, and pain points to create effective user-centered solutions.
- Conduct user research, stakeholder interviews, contextual inquiries, and usability studies.
- Translate research findings into user journeys, personas, workflows, information architecture, and design recommendations.
- Create wireframes, user flows, mockups, and interactive prototypes for web and desktop applications.
- Develop high-fidelity UI designs that are intuitive, consistent, accessible, and visually engaging.
- Define and maintain reusable design systems, component libraries, design patterns, and UI guidelines.
- Ensure consistent user experience across applications, modules, and product platforms.
- Plan and conduct usability testing and incorporate user feedback into design improvements.
- Identify usability issues and recommend improvements based on user behavior, feedback, and product requirements.
- Collaborate closely with frontend developers to ensure accurate implementation of UX and UI designs.
- Provide design specifications, interaction guidelines, assets, and implementation support to engineering teams.
- Participate in design reviews and evaluate implemented solutions for usability and design consistency.
- Balance user needs, business requirements, technical constraints, and delivery timelines.
- Mentor designers and provide guidance on UX methods, design practices, and design-system adoption.
- Promote user-centered design principles and usability best practices across cross-functional teams.

Required Skills

- 6 –10 years of overall experience in UI/UX, product design, or interaction design.
- Strong experience in UI and UX design for complex enterprise applications.
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and UX methodologies.
- Hands-on experience conducting user research and usability studies.
- Strong experience creating wireframes, user journeys, user flows, and information architecture.
- Extensive experience developing low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes.
- Strong experience with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, or equivalent tools.
- Experience creating, maintaining, and governing design systems and reusable component libraries.
- Strong knowledge of interaction design, visual hierarchy, typography, layout, and information presentation.
- Proven experience identifying and implementing usability improvements.
- Ability to design responsive experiences across different screen sizes and form factors.
- Good understanding of frontend technologies and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineering teams.
- Strong understanding of accessibility and inclusive design principles.
- Ability to translate complex workflows and technical requirements into intuitive user experiences.
- Experience working throughout the complete product development lifecycle.

Design Leadership Expectations

The candidate should be capable of operating beyond an individual contributor role and should:

- Provide design leadership for complex products and applications.
- Establish UI/UX standards, guidelines, and design best practices.
- Drive adoption and governance of enterprise design systems.
- Facilitate design workshops, brainstorming sessions, and stakeholder discussions.
- Influence product decisions using user research, usability insights, and design thinking.
- Review design solutions and ensure consistency across products.
- Mentor designers and help improve overall design maturity within the team.
- Collaborate effectively with product management, engineering, quality, and business teams.
- Communicate design decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Advocate for the user throughout the product development lifecycle.

Preferred Skills

- Experience designing large-scale enterprise, scientific, healthcare, engineering, or data-intensive applications.
- Experience working on complex workflows involving dashboards, visualization, configuration, or operational tasks.
- Knowledge of Design Thinking and Human-Centered Design methodologies.
- Experience conducting moderated and unmoderated usability testing.
- Familiarity with accessibility standards such as WCAG.
- Experience designing for responsive web applications and desktop applications.
- Understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frontend frameworks is an advantage.
- Experience working with Agile/Scrum product development teams.
- Experience collaborating with globally distributed product and engineering teams.
- Familiarity with design analytics, user feedback mechanisms, or UX measurement techniques.

Behavioral Competencies

- Strong user empathy and customer-focused mindset.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Strong visual and interaction design capabilities.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to simplify complex workflows and information structures.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to design quality.
- Ability to influence product decisions through research and design rationale.
- Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within cross-functional teams.
- Strong mentoring and facilitation capabilities.
- Ability to balance user experience, business priorities, and technical feasibility.

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.