UX Design Lead

Responsibilities

• Manage product designers and UX designers; support them as they drive their personal and professional growth
• Influence and interpret the product vision to drive strategic execution of design through the team
• Work with designers to ensure we have a deep understanding of user needs and that their design solutions fit into a consistent product experience
• Actively participate in key initiatives to help shape and guide solutions
• Challenge status quo on creativity and quality of design work across the team
• Be willing to get hands-on, partnering closely with other designers and/or engineering teams
• Collaborate closely with your product, insights, and tech counterparts to shape a data-informed vision for the user experience of our products and can translate this into an inspiring design strategy for your team
• Promote team’s design work to drive alignment across the other teams
• Proactively look for and solve high-level issues and opportunities
• Lead design, through best practices, attention to detail, and sometimes unconventional thinking, to ensure impact

Requirements

• Minimum requirement of 8 years of product design experience building consumer digital products
• Experience managing, mentoring, and growing a team of designers
• A keen eye for detail and ability to give effective direction and feedback to designers on the team
• Experience leading and delivering end-to-end design across multiple projects and platforms
• Experience leading product direction and strategic thinking with the ability to develop product goals, identify opportunities, and make decisions based on data and the impact to people and the company
• Experience collaborating closely with product owners, engineering, research, data science, and business teams to explore and define product opportunities
• Experience with different UX processes and research methods, both qualitative and quantitative
• Excellent problem-solving skills and familiarity with technical constraints and limitations
• Experience working in fast-paced environments
• Ability to represent work to a broader product team and other leaders, clearly and succinctly articulating the goals and concepts
• Strong communication and diplomacy/stakeholder management skills in English