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Lead UX_UI Designer

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

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

Provide design leadership for a complex customer-facing digital platform, translating business goals into scalable online experiences. Lead cross-functional discovery, mentor designers, and ensure design quality and cohesion across multiple product pods.

Responsibilities

  • Set experience direction for Prime Online by translating product vision and business priorities into clear UX strategies, principles, and outcomes
  • Partner at the leadership level with Product, Engineering, and UX Management to influence roadmaps, prioritization, and investment decisions
  • Serve as the UX design authority for Prime Online teams —guiding decisions, resolving trade-offs, and ensuring consistency across experiences
  • Lead cross-functional discovery and vision work, including journey mapping, concept exploration, and experience framing
  • Own design quality and cohesion across features and releases, ensuring alignment with Caterpillar design systems, accessibility standards, and technical constraints

Requirements

  • Creativity: Knowledge of the approaches, tools, and techniques for promoting creative, original thinking
  • Web Software Design: Knowledge of web software design; ability to design, develop, maintain and enhance web-based or web-enabled software
  • Human-Centered Design (HCD): Knowledge of Human-Centered Design model, principle, and concepts; ability to understand the perspective of people who experience a problem
  • User Experience Design: Knowledge of user experience design tools, techniques and approaches; ability to design applications that are valued, positively perceived and used by clients
  • User Interface Design: Knowledge of activities, practices, deliverables and considerations; ability to design effective graphic user interfaces for delivery of information to the client's desktop workstation

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)
  • 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

UX design Human-centered design Design leadership Web software design User experience design User interface design Creativity Problem-solving Communication Collaboration Strategic thinking Design systems Accessibility standards Technical constraints Figma Sketch Adobe XD Prototyping Wireframing Design thinking User research Usability testing A/B testing Cross-functional collaboration

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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