Lead UI / UX Designer

Job Description

Lead UI/UX Designer would be responsible for turning our software into easy-to-use products for our clients by gathering user requirements, designing graphic elements, and building navigation components. Also, the candidate should have experience with design software and wireframe tools. Ultimately, s/he would be responsible for creating both functional and appealing features that address our clients’ needs and help us grow our customer base. The position also requires portfolio of professional design projects that includes work with web/mobile applications.

Essential Job Functions

Maintain ownership of the product vision and roadmap and improving the product development process. Lead the team in expanding mastery of the business goals of each design request and pushing back on stakeholders with innovative UX/UI proposals

Demonstrate high quality design practices. This includes participation in all aspects of UX: research, ideation, strategy, interaction design, and visual design

Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks, working on a framework for judging the success or failure of the product, prioritizing feature development and structuring product failures

Empower and mentor designers in the team, fostering a collaborative, productive, and positive environment within a growing team.

Lead design strategy activities to understand user needs & business opportunities, uncover business/user needs, generate potential solutions, craft a holistic vision for the end-to-end product and develop roadmaps for achieving that future.

Maintain and further build design team workflows that ensure that all designs delivered are in line with style guides and are of high-quality standards.

Ensure that the projects are delivered on a timely manner.

Highly communicative and responsive both within the team and to stakeholders across the company while managing a large volume of ongoing projects.

Experience managing a team of around 6-8 UI/UX designers. Ability to communicate with different departments of a multi-national and dynamic company.

Mastery of UX interaction and design principles and deliverables including rapid prototyping, concept diagrams, user scenarios, wireframes, flows, experience maps, design patterns and annotated comps.

Drive and willingness to go the extra mile with a strong work ethic.

Experience in other type of designs (online ads, print, etc.) will be an advantage.Must be a team player.

Problem solver and Customer centered.

Skills

7+ years of industry experience as a UI/UX designer and/or manager in a cross-functional UI/UX team, dedicated to the complete UI/UX design and development lifecycle of several successfully launched desktop and mobile applications.

Deep understanding of the iOS and Android platforms and experience designing and launching products for both.

Proven success designing and optimizing high-quality product experiences for a variety of platforms including desktop, web and mobile. Experience in B2B platforms is an advantage.

Mastery of UX interaction and design principles and deliverables including rapid prototyping, concept diagrams, user scenarios, wireframes, flows, experience maps, design patterns and annotated comps.

Architect system wide design solutions that satisfy both product and engineering requirements.

Experience managing a team of around 6-8 UI/UX designers. Ability to communicate with different departments of a multi-national and dynamic company.

Working knowledge of the capabilities and constraints of web front-end technologies including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, ReactJS, WordPress as well Material Design.