Job Description

The UI/UX Lead must be a great leader with the ability to maximize the talents of the teams. This means being a coach, an instructor, a team leader and a critic all at once. UI/UX Lead works with Designers, Product Managers, Front End Engineers, Copywriters, and other Marketers on a regular basis to ensure the full experience of the UI/UX of the product, and web/mobile application are being taken care of.

Role & Responsibilities

• Communicating across different teams, including product, research, marketing, sales and engineering
• Empower, mentor and designers in the team, fostering a collaborative, productive, and positive environment within a growing team
• Demonstrate UI design thought-leadership across departments with particular emphasis within the UI Design team
• Drive the UI Style Guide, set the UX / UI design standards.
• Coordinate planning and executing iterative prototyping and user research
• Understand and utilise on-going analytics and other available data to inform and justify design decisions
• Create visual strategies, wireframes, page layouts, interactions, prototypes, icons that are in line with style guides and are of high quality standards
• Support the Sales and Marketing team, creating required designs for advertising or collateral sales efforts
• Stay abreast of UX trends, corporate and industry standards looking for creative ideas
• Creating and facilitating an environment, process and design system that supports consistent UX principles and processes across devices and channels
• Research and develop intuitive and engaging desktop/mobile experience tailored to personality of the Brand
• Ensure that the tasks are delivered on a timely manner.

Requirements

• 5-8 years’ experience as a graphic designer, UX designer, UI designer, interaction designer, visual design, or similar
• Examples of high-level visual strategy, highly detailed wireframes and designs
• Delivers solutions aligned with strategic departmental front-end direction
• Leads, mentors and coaches other designers of mixed disciplines
• Excellent problem solving and design skills
• Ability to interpret user problems within the context of the product/business and detailed findings into actionable design recommendations and solutions.
• Strong communication & presentation skills (written, oral and visual).
• Ability to work with multi-ethnic cross-functional teams