LeadStack is hiring: Senior UX Designer in Los Angeles

What We Do/Project

Our team builds user centric B2B and POC digital products for a high-profile media company. We work in a deeply collaborative environment with designers across multiple projects and business units. Your role as a Lead Product Designer is a rewarding position with the opportunity to create and improve the digital products that run our company; from internal operations to external facing sites that encompass brands such as DC Comics and Studio Tours. You will have opportunities to network with multiple teams cross-functionally.

Job Responsibilities / Typical Day in the Role

• UX/UI Design: Translate complex business needs and user research insights into wireframes, high fidelity interactive prototypes and production ready assets.
• Leverage and contribute to design systems to create native experiences across web and mobile.
• User Research and Design Thinking: Assist in framing research goals and objectives. Deeply empathize with users while conducting primary user research to uncover unmet needs, pain points and motivations. Identify key patterns and trends from user interviews, feedback, and data. Synthesize and present research outputs through thematic insights, user journeys, workflows, and similar artifacts. Conceive and facilitate internal workshops using Design Thinking methodologies to guide teams from ideation to prototyping.
• Design Systems: Leverage design systems within Figma to ensure consistency and scalability across projects.
• Advanced Prototyping: Apply knowledge in variables, conditionals, and expressions to create more interactive and complex prototypes, reducing the number of frames and interactions needed. Use components (including master components, instance components, and variants) to create reusable elements across projects, ensuring consistency and streamlining the design process. Master Auto Layout for consistent spacing and alignment, adapting to changes in content or element placement for responsive designs and complex layouts.
• Collaboration and Teamwork: Work collaboratively with stakeholders, design, product, and development teams to integrate findings into projects. Adapt to diverse team environments and respond to changing project needs.

Must Have Skills / Requirements

• Advanced knowledge in Figma. Main tool and environment for design work; used for layout, prototyping, and communicating visual intent.
• Designing from and contributing to Design Libraries.
• Excellent visual design skills – shown in portfolio.
• Demonstrated ability to see engaging design and problem-solving approach in work.
• Many products are data-heavy; portfolio should include examples of data- and task-centric interfaces.
• Information and Data Synthesis Experience: Making visual or other representations of data to communicate with stakeholders and clients.

Nice to Have Skills / Preferred Requirements

• Experience in designing Enterprise products.
• Experience in software design and development.
• Background in Media or Entertainment.
• Branding experience and cross-media branding and graphic design experience outside of digital.

Technology Requirements

• Figma – design & interaction tool
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Miro – business collaboration tool
• Jira – Project management and tracking
• Confluence – for documenting data
• MO365

Soft Skills

• User-Centered Mindset: A passion for understanding and advocating for the end user throughout the design process.
• Communication Skills: Ability to present complex data and findings clearly to stakeholders at all levels, in written and verbal form.
• Able to communicate with and build trust-based relationships across different functions and teams.
• Analytical Thinking: Strong ability to interpret data, find patterns, and generate insights from research findings.
• Ability to work independently and ramp up quickly on project needs.
• You are comfortable in ambiguous situations where you need to define needs iteratively and adapt as new information is presented.