Senior Principal UX Designer, Solutions Engineering

Lead the development of the UX design strategy and vision, ensuring alignment with product goals. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design cohesive solutions and advocate for user needs throughout the design process.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of the UX design strategy and vision, ensuring that design objectives align with overall product goals and business priorities.
• The successful candidate would be the primary UX expert and evangelist in the group, educating group members and driving the adoption of UX best practices across the portfolio.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across multiple initiatives to design cohesive solutions from ideation to implementation, aligning user needs with business goals.
• Provide mentorship and leadership to a team of UX designers, fostering growth and maintaining high design standards across the team.
• Lead the initial design and continuous improvement of a scalable design system to ensure a consistent scientific user experience across products.
• Work closely with UI engineers to refine design processes in order to increase efficiency and ensure high-quality outcomes.
• Lead efforts to conduct user research, usability testing, and gather insights that inform design decisions.
• Advocate for the user in all aspects of the design process.
• Organize, maintain, and evolve UX design artifacts (UI elements, documentation, and guidelines) for consistency and scalability across applications.
• Ensure inclusive design practices across products by collaborating with UI teams to implement WCAG and accessibility standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field, with 12+ years of experience in UX design, or an advanced degree with 10+ years of experience.
• Proven experience in designing impactful products that address complex user needs and business goals.
• Experience managing, mentoring, and leading a team of designers.
• Expertise in the full UX design process, including user research, wireframing, prototyping, interaction design, and usability testing.
• Strong proficiency with design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, and knowledge of CSS frameworks (e.g. Tailwind CSS).
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to present ideas and rationale clearly to a variety of audiences, including executives, technical teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ability to drive innovation and excellence in design by staying up to date with industry trends, emerging design technologies, standards and best practices to continuously improve design methodologies and deliver innovative solutions.

Key Skills

• Strong proficiency with design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, and knowledge of CSS frameworks (e.g. Tailwind CSS).
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to present ideas and rationale clearly to a variety of audiences, including executives, technical teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.