Lead UI/UX Developer

Job Description

Job Description

Salary : Position Summary

Position Summary

The Lead UI / UX Designer must be a great leader with the ability to maximize the talents of the team. Doing so means being a coach, an instructor, a team leader and a critic all at once.

The Lead UI / UX Designer work with User Experience Designers, Visual Designers, User Researchers, Front End Engineers, Business Analysts, Copywriters, and other Marketers on a regular basis to ensure the full experience of the UI / UX of the web application or mobile application is being realized.

Key Responsibilities :

• 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 project and providing 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 roadmaps.
• 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 in 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.

Required Skills and Qualifications :

• 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. (Required)
• UI / UX Design Portfolio work for both mobile and web platforms (Required)
• 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 as well as iOS components and Material Design.
• Drive and willingness to go the extra mile with a strong work ethic.
• Experience in other types of designs (online ads, print, etc.) will be an advantage.

By joining our team, you'll become part of a diverse, vibrant group that is continually pushing boundaries and working on meaningful and innovative projects that radically change the way our clients view what is possible.

Engaged Media Studios is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion or belief, sex, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, disability, pregnancy or maternity, or other protected characteristics.

Engaged Media fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.

Contact us at [email protected] and attach your resume if you are interested in applying for this position.

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