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Lead Product Designer

Ipg Mediabrands • United States of America 🇺🇸

Onsite $140,000 - $150,000 Full-time Lead

The Lead Product Designer will lead and scale design strategy across multiple product lines, ensuring a cohesive user experience. This role involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams to align design with business goals and user needs.

Responsibilities

  • Actively design for multiple subproducts in the Activation product group, identifying common themes and identifying best-practice assets, templates and components for the product group
  • Provide hands-on feedback and creative direction to team members on key projects, particularly those with high strategic importance
  • Champion human-centered, accessible, inclusive and ethical design practices
  • Work with the Director of Product Design on developing forward-looking, holistic design vision across multiple product lines
  • Translate company and product roadmaps into actionable design priorities, ensuring scalability, consistency, and excellence
  • Advocate for design as a strategic advantage across the Activation product group
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data teams to ship features that are intuitive, elegant, and impactful
  • Act as the design voice in business and scrum meetings, providing insight into customer needs, usability, and experience metrics
  • Work closely with marketing and brand teams to ensure seamless end-to-end user journeys
  • Stay ahead of industry trends, tools, and technologies to keep the organization on the cutting edge of design excellence
  • Promote research-driven design, balancing qualitative insights and quantitative data to inform decisions

Requirements

  • 5+ years in product design (UX/UI)
  • Expert in Figma
  • Deep understanding of user-centered design principles, design systems, and dual agile development processes
  • Strong understanding of atomic design practices and extending design system patterns for new scenarios
  • Very organized, strong attention to detail, and high personal standards of design standards and hygiene
  • Eager to learn new skillsets and try new ways of thinking
  • Experience mentoring, teaching or instructing junior and peer designers
  • Passion for coaching, learning from and inspiring small teams of designers in quality of work and design standards
  • Experience balancing design needs across multiple, interrelated product lines
  • Strong portfolio showcasing modern, scalable product experiences for web
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
  • Experience working in fast-paced, cross-functional, product-led organizations
  • A growth mindset and bias toward action

Key Skills

  • Figma
  • User-centered design principles
  • Design systems
  • Dual agile development processes
  • Atomic design practices
  • Research/UX/UI activities
  • Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills

Benefits

  • Medical and dental coverage
  • 401(k) plans
  • Flex spending
  • Life insurance
  • Disability
  • Employee discount program
  • Employee stock purchase program
  • Paid family benefits
  • Discretionary time off days
  • Company-wide Appreciation Weeks and Wellness Days
  • Competitive Total Compensation package
  • Eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award or a relevant incentive award

About Ipg Mediabrands

IPG Mediabrands is the media and marketing solutions division of Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG). IPG Mediabrands manages over $47 billion in marketing investment globally on behalf of its clients across its full-service agency networks UM, Initiative and Mediahub and through its award-winning specialized business units Healix, KINESSO, MAGNA, Mediabrands Content Studio, Orion Holdings, Rapport, and the IPG Media Lab. IPG Mediabrands clients include many of the world’s most recognizable and iconic brands from a broad portfolio of industry sectors including automotive, personal finance, consumer product goods (CPG), pharma, health and wellness, entertainment, financial services, energy, toys and gaming, direct to consumer and e-commerce, retail, hospitality, food and beverage, fashion and beauty. The company employs more than 18,000 diverse marketing communication professionals in more than 130 countries. Learn more at www.ipgmediabrands.com.

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