Visionary User Experience Leader

Job Title: Lead Ui/UX Designer

Job Description:

We are looking for a visionary Lead Ui/UX Designer to spearhead the design strategy for our Financial Services consolidation project.

You will partner closely with Product, Development, QA, SEO, Analytics, Content, and Stakeholder teams to translate complex business objectives into intuitive, accessible, and scalable user experiences.

This role requires strong leadership of the UX/UI practice, including establishing design governance, championing a component-driven system, and ensuring pixel-perfect fidelity from Figma through Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) implementation.

• Owning the consolidated UX vision, defining design principles, patterns, and success metrics that align with organizational goals.
• Architecting and governing a production-ready design system comprising 100+ responsive components, 5 enterprise-grade templates, and micro-interaction specifications, ensuring strict WCAG 2.1 AA compliance.
• Leading a distributed UX/UI team: mentoring senior and mid-level designers, conducting rigorous design reviews, and establishing best-practice playbooks.
• Serving as the primary liaison to Executive and Legal stakeholders—facilitating design workshops, steering consensus during high-impact design critiques, and incorporating feedback into iterative sprints.
• Collaborating with AEM Architects and Front-End leads to confirm component feasibility, hand off detailed Figma specs, and monitor implementation quality.
• Defining and tracking key KPIs, such as design-to-development accuracy, component reuse rate, and user satisfaction scores, and embedding continuous improvement cycles via regular QA/UX audits.
• Championing accessibility and inclusivity by conducting audits of color contrast, semantic markup, keyboard navigation, and screen-reader flows, and guiding remediation strategies within design artifacts.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic UX Leadership: driving the high-level design roadmap, ensuring alignment with business and technical roadmaps, and anticipating future scalability needs.
• Design System Stewardship: overseeing creation and maintenance of a modular, extensible design library, with detailed documentation, version control, and usage guidelines.
• Cross-Functional Governance: acting as the authoritative design voice in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and triage calls; partnering with Product Owners to refine requirements into actionable design tasks.
• Stakeholder Engagement: leading executive presentations, legal reviews, and brand-governance approvals; synthesizing large-scale feedback into prioritized design backlogs.
• Quality Assurance & Handoff: validating final builds against high-fidelity comps, providing annotated redlines and implementation notes, and supporting QA teams in pixel-perfect sign-off across devices and browsers.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's in HCI, Industrial Design, Interaction Design, or equivalent.
• 7+ years' proven leadership in UI/UX design for large enterprises or agency environments—preferably on AEM or other headless CMS platforms.
• Expertise with Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud, and prototyping tools.
• Deep understanding of component-driven design methodologies, design tokens, responsive breakpoints, and design system governance.
• Strong command of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA), with hands-on experience conducting and remediating accessibility audits.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence without authority, and navigate complex stakeholder ecosystems.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills—comfortable conducting executive-level briefings, workshops, and design critiques.
• Familiarity with AEM's front-end paradigms and the ability to translate Figma specs into developer-ready assets.
• Experience operating in Agile/Scrum environments, collaborating with Product, Development, and QA in two-week sprint cadences.
• Data-driven mindset: adept at defining and tracking UX KPIs, analyzing user metrics, and iterating designs based on quantitative/qualitative feedback.