Design Lead

📋 Description

• Guide the design process throughout the entire project lifecycle

• Drive client presentations and discussions of your team’s work

• Respectfully decline the status quo and push both clients and colleagues outside their comfort zones

• Foster positive client relationships and directly influence client stakeholders

• Work with Project Delivery Managers and Client Partners to scope project requirements

• Help promote an inspiring and inclusive environment for the team

• Coach and mentor Product Designers to determine and work towards desired career growth paths, sharing tailored feedback and guidance, and monitoring overall fulfillment and happiness

• Work hand-in-hand with engineers and product team members to foster innovation and ensure feasibility and fidelity of implementation

• Promote a culture of autonomy balanced with proven ways of working

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of product design experience at a digital product agency or consultancy, ideally in a Lead role

• Demonstrated mastery of UI/UX principles, best practices, and common design tools (read: Figma)

• Adequate level of interaction design skills to guide the work (think After Effects, Principle, Framer, Origami)

• A portfolio that reflects your strengths in UX and visual design

• A natural inclination to take the lead and help everyone arrive at a deeper understanding and greater appreciation of the work

• Fluent in translating stakeholder goals, user research, and complex user flows into simple UIs

• Passionate about staying ahead of desktop and mobile best practices, developments, and trends in web, mobile, and iOS design

• Communication pro, with the ability to deliver compelling design rationales in both client and internal contexts

• Comfortable with ambiguity and client briefs that lead to more questions than answers

• Motivated by feedback, and by the opportunity to improve in your role, in the work, and in how you work together as a team