UI Design Lead

Passionate about beautiful products that deliver a seamless, powerful experience?

As UI Design Lead you will form an integral part of the design team, working very closely with UX architects, product managers, engineers, CX researchers and data scientists. As someone who is ‘surface-oriented’, you have mastered your craft of creating beautiful, intuitive interfaces (UI’s) across many screens and devices. You also have hands-on experience with user-centred design practices and have successfully contributed toward an adopted design system. You are a coach, diplomat and champion of design.
You’ll be part of building the tools that thousands of people use to run and grow their businesses every day.

What’s the compelling stuff for you to own?
• Develop and articulate a compelling UI Design vision for the team.
• Lead all aspects of this craft, starting with UI Principles.
• Communicate UI Design rationale with partners and stakeholders.
• Build trust and strong long-term relationships with application engineers, product managers, customer research and product architecture teams.
• Partner with product teams to ship new features and experiences in an agile environment.
• Partner with Customer Research (CX) and UX Design Architects to test new design ideas.
• Participate in user research and feedback sessions.
• Mentorship and feedback for the development of others in your team.
• Facilitate design thinking sessions with cross-functional teams.
• Drive the delivery and adoption of cpmpany’s internal design system.

What’s the backing you will need to lead this?
• 4+ years of commercial Product Design experience across.
• At least 5 - 8 years’ work experience within design, software development, or related field.
• Familiar and has practice in user experience methodologies and processes
• Comfortable communicating at all levels of the organization.
• Develops and uses facilitation skills to engage cross-functional teams.
• Develops the process/approach for tackling a design problem.
• Ability to think across systems and processes to the ultimate use and experience of the product.
• Advantageous to have financial services exposure.

If you're experienced in UI Design and would like to take the step up to lead a team and UI vision, let's chat. The client does reserve the right not to fill the position.