About the position
The Lead Product Designer provides consultation and direction on translating business requirements into effective product designs. This includes responsibility for driving design decisions and leading the overall delivery of high-quality user flows, user journeys, wireframes, supporting visuals, prototypes, and pixel perfect design comps for their portfolio. This role serves as a product design expert for project teams throughout the process of conceptualizing and building product design solutions. The Lead drives the user experience (UX) process and participates in cross-functional prioritization and planning. In addition, the Lead guides the development and delivery of design solutions for various complex technology applications across different business areas. The Lead Product Designer works with designers, engineers, product, content designers, researchers, and other UX teams to lead the delivery of assigned design projects in promptly and efficiently and often provides creative approval of work completed by others on the design team.
Responsibilities
- Oversees and consults on the architecture and design of high-quality and engaged experiences for customers and associates.
- Leads multiple design projects that span products or product groups. Reviews and signs off on high-impact, high-visibility design projects.
- Drives utilization of best practices and advanced knowledge to build user flows, wireframes, and design comps and low-fidelity prototypes to ensure products deliver optimal experience; may lead efforts to improve product design best practices.
- Resolves complex design problems that span design projects at the product portfolio level; simplifies, optimizes, and removes bottlenecks for projects and project teams.
- Drives collaboration across UX, development, and product teams to maintain a cohesive design and experience throughout the product portfolio.
- Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders for UX planning and prioritization; aligns UX portfolio to agile processes.
- Coaches, guides, and mentors junior level team members; shares an in-depth understanding of company and industry methodologies, policies, standards, and controls.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in interaction design, graphic design, industrial design, or related field (or equivalent work experience in lieu of degree)
- 7 years of experience in UX design
