Lead UX Designer

Lead UX Designer Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Lead UX Designer to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate effectively with other designers, content strategists, product managers, engineers and researchers;
  • Mentor other product designers, removing blockers and influencing product deliverables ;
  • Advance a strong point of view, backed up by personal expertise, design rationale, customer data, and industry trends;
  • Work on multiple projects at one time, using strong communication skills to manage time and expectations appropriately;
  • Other duties as assigned;
  • Deliver compelling UX visions, UI specifications, wireframes, and prototypes;
  • Articulate complex visions through simple, elegant designs;
  • Conduct user research sessions to create personas, understand different use- case scenarios, and accordingly design conversational flows.

Requirements:

  • Experience creating a variety of UX documents (personas, wireframes, story mapping, etc.) and an understanding of when/if they should be used;
  • Experience usability testing your ideas ( preferred, not required );
  • Mastery of design tools such as Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and InVision;
  • Experience with teams that have created new products as well as improved existing ones – and a track record for making measurable improvements;
  • Experience guiding design studios, ideation sessions, journey mapping during the product design process using design-thinking methodologies;
  • 8+ years’ experience designing products, 3+ years experience mentoring others;
  • BA/BS degree with an emphasis in HCI, Human Factors, Design or equivalent experience.