UX Lead

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We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

Role: UX Lead – Bangalore (P40)

Experience criteria:  15+ years of relevant experience

Key Responsibilities:

• Design Excellence: Oversee the creation of user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI designs that deliver exceptional user experiences.
• User-Centered Design: Champion the voice of the customer through user research, usability testing, and data-driven design decisions. Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features. Present concepts, facilitate briefing/kick-off sessions and workshops with clients.
• Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and inspire a team of UX designers, researchers, and other design professionals. Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Business teams to ensure seamless integration of design with product development. Inspire Business and Departmental Culture, Values and Brand Vision
• Strategic Leadership: Define and lead the UX strategy, and UI Design alignment for products across multiple platforms, aligning with business objectives and user needs. Collaborate with stakeholders to gain a deeper understanding of users’ goals, validate design solutions, conduct usability testing, and incorporate insights into your design.
• Pipeline Development: Work with the Presales team to create winning pitches and RFP responses.
• Stakeholder Management: Influence key stakeholders, presenting UX strategies, design concepts, and research findings with clarity and confidence.
• Process Improvement: Develop and refine UX design processes, tools, and standards to drive efficiency and consistency across projects.

 Desired Skills, Experience & Qualifications:

• Experience: 15+ years of proven experience in UX design, interaction design, and user research, with at least 5 years in a leadership capacity.
• Portfolio: An exceptional portfolio showcasing innovative UX design solutions. 
• Educational Qualification: Master’s degree from NID, IIT Interaction Design, or HCI, or equivalent experience. 
• Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, manage senior stakeholders, and mentor junior staff.
• Analytical Thinking: Strong background in UX research methodologies, usability testing, and data-driven decision-making. Curiosity for how business, social, technical and behavioural factors impact the UX across the user journey inside and outside the product UX.
• Communication: Exceptional storytelling, presentation, and stakeholder management skills. Maintain and leverage engagements with global stakeholders consistently. Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication, and storytelling skills.
• User-Centered Design: A solid grasp of user-centred design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns.
• Technical Proficiency: Expertise in design tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, etc.) and familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) is a plus. Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design. Knowledge of AEM, Magento, AEP, AA, Target, Campaign, Marketo will be an advantage.
• Estimations & Planning: Must be able to estimate, plan and lead design projects
• Innovation: Should be able to innovate and build smart design tools to expedite design deliverables, e.g. new XD plugins, with the goal to make design deliveries time efficient and effective.
• Team Player: You’re a great teammate who likes to have fun while getting things done! Advanced degree in UX Design, HCI, Cognitive Psychology, or related fields is a plus.

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