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Lead UX_UI Designer

Caterpillar Inc. 🇺🇸 Westminster, Colorado, United States of America

Onsite $128,470 - $208,770 Full-time Senior

This role involves leading the design vision and coordinating work across eCommerce product teams to ensure customer-centric design excellence by influencing product strategy and leading design workshops. The Lead UX/UI Designer will also serve as a design authority, guiding decisions, managing design intake, and contributing to foundational experience artifacts like journey mapping and component libraries.

Responsibilities

  • Influence product and business strategy through strong stakeholder partnerships at leadership levels
  • Lead design workshops and vision work for cross-functional teams
  • Serve as a design authority within the pod structure, guiding decisions, resolving tradeoffs, and ensuring high-quality experience outcomes
  • Participate in UX design intake and work distribution among designers
  • Contribute to journey mapping, component library governance, and other foundational experience artifacts
  • Run design reviews and critiques to evolve and validate that proposed design solutions align with vision, requirements, existing architecture, and established design systems

Requirements

  • Creativity: Knowledge of creative approaches and techniques for designing innovative eComm experiences
  • Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Ability to analyze user needs and make informed design decisions for eComm experiences
  • Human-Centered Design (HCD): Ability to design eCommerce experiences that meet real user needs and deliver business outcomes
  • UX/UI Design: Ability to design intuitive, effective eCommerce experiences

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Paid time off plan
  • 401(k) savings plans
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
  • Health Lifestyle Programs
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts
  • Career Development
  • Incentive bonus
  • Disability benefits
  • Life Insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Adoption benefits
  • Tuition Reimbursement

Key Skills

Creativity Decision Making and Critical Thinking Human-Centered Design (HCD) UX/UI Design Design Thinking User Research Usability Testing A/B Testing Prototyping Wireframing Design Systems Cross-functional Collaboration Leadership Communication Mentoring Agile Scrum Figma Sketch Adobe XD Photoshop Illustrator After Effects InVision Framer

About Caterpillar Inc.

For 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed. With 2024 sales and revenues of $64.8 billion, Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. Caterpillar does business on every continent, principally operating through three primary segments – Construction Industries, Resource Industries and Energy & Transportation – and provides financing and related services through our Financial Products segment.

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