What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead UX Designer position at LBrands?
We are looking for an experienced, process-minded practitioner to lead UX activities within a digital organization on the journey to an agile, product-based delivery. In addition to designing, this role will be focused on setting UX direction, assuring the quality of design delivery within product/project team and leading multiple or highly complex projects. This role is perfect for someone who loves to dive in, organize a team, and evangelize “the art of what is possible.” The ideal candidate excels in design thinking, process definition, cross-functional communication, and creating usable experiences. If you love tackling challenges, helping grow teams, and fostering collaboration, this is the role for you.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Collaborating and communicating professionally with internal and cross-functional teams
- Works well with cross-disciplinary teams, including FEWD, to create functional and engaging product experiences
- Proficient in communicating direction, design principles, and design specifications
- Fosters a highly collaborative design process and is trusted by their team to talk through both scope and technical challenges and negotiate thoughtful outcomes.
- Takes a leadership role in cross-discipline meetings, bringing a design voice to the conversations and building trust between design teams and other disciplines.
- Creating experience maps, user scenarios, comps, and flows
- Designs user experiences from low-fidelity sketches to high-fidelity prototypes
- Creates rapid prototypes to validate design concepts
- Developing processes and approaches to solving design problems
- Coordinates multi-disciplinary project teams
- Communicates design considerations to different audiences, including developers, management, and leadership
- Uses known methods and anticipates problems to strategize design solutions that meet and exceed business objectives
- Coaching and mentoring UX teammates
- Participates in a collaborative, supportive, and fun environment to bring out the best work in the team
- Provides effective and accurate technical feedback in critiques and workshares
- Working well with cross-disciplinary teams
- Works closely with various teams to gain user insights, identify opportunities, validate concepts, and socialize ideas across the team
- Collaborates with cross functional teams, including FEWD, to create functional and engaging product experiences.
- Able to positively influence partners and stakeholders, both directly and indirectly.
- Presenting work to cross-functional teams and leadership
- Demonstrates experience executing design practices within Agile software development
- Collaborates with Project Owners and Business Analysts to build and maintain a product backlog
- Works closely with partners on the crafting of requirements and user stories.
- Understands and considers business goals into their design decisions/solutions.
- Proficient understanding of the benefits of different user interface models for responsive web design and their uses, with a mobile-first mindset
- Ability to translate functional and business requirements into usable designs
- Proficient ability to synthesize research insights and other sources of information into a cohesive design
- Expert ability to use appropriate interface options to provide affordances and shape user experience
- Proficient ability to indicate where animations/microinteractions would improve an experience and show or create examples
- Proficient ability to understand opportunities and limitations of technologies
- Proficient ability to explain and document the expectations around an interaction
- Understanding of information architecture, information hierarchy, accessibility
- Proficient understanding of the value of sharing work and seeking out and providing feedback
- Strong understanding and experience with user-centric design methodologies
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment as a valued team member
- Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to effectively collaborate with business users
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment as a valued team member
- Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to effectively collaborate with business users
- Desire to learn new technologies and continually expand technical capabilities
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- 7-9 years hands-on interaction experience design or general UX design
- 2-3 years of experience mentoring designers at all levels
- Experience leading UX projects in a cross-functional environment
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred
- Experience with tools such as Figma/Sketch/InVision/Keynote/Miro/Jira/Confluence
- Understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other front-end code frameworks
- Experience designing native mobile apps
- Experience in ecommerce
- Working knowledge of design research methodologies
- Master’s Degree
An equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate in hiring or terms and conditions of employment because of an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, genetic information, marital status or any other protected category recognized by state, federal or local laws. We only hires individuals authorized for employment in the United States.
Salary : $1 - $1,000,000
