Ui / Ux Expert

Job Description:

As a Lead UX/UI Designer on the Financial Services consolidation, you will own and drive the end-to-end design strategy for merging two high-visibility domains into a single, unified AEM-based platform. 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 visionary 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.

You will own the consolidated UX vision, defining design principles, patterns, and success metrics that align with organizational goals. You will architect and govern a production-ready design system comprising 100+ responsive components, 5 enterprise-grade templates, and micro-interaction specifications, ensuring strict WCAG 2.1 AA compliance.

Additionally, you will lead a distributed UX/UI team: mentor senior and mid-level designers, conduct rigorous design reviews, and establish best-practice playbooks. You will serve 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.

Furthermore, you will collaborate with AEM Architects and Front-End leads to confirm component feasibility, hand off detailed Figma specs, and monitor implementation quality. You will define and track key KPIs, such as design-to-development accuracy, component reuse rate, and user satisfaction scores, and embed continuous improvement cycles via regular QA/UX audits.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic UX Leadership: Drive the high-level design roadmap, ensure alignment with business and technical roadmaps, and anticipate future scalability needs.
• Design System Stewardship: Oversee creation and maintenance of a modular, extensible design library with detailed documentation, version control, and usage guidelines.
• Cross-Functional Governance: Act as the authoritative design voice in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and triage calls; partner with Product Owners to refine requirements into actionable design tasks.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Lead executive presentations, legal reviews, and brand-governance approvals; synthesize large-scale feedback into prioritized design backlogs.
• Quality Assurance & Handoff: Validate final builds against high-fidelity comps; provide annotated redlines and implementation notes; support 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 (Libraries, Prototyping, Auto Layout), Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud, and prototyping tools (Principle, Protopie, Framer).
• Deep understanding of component-driven design: atomic/atomic-to-molecule-to-organism 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 (HTL, Sling, ClientLibs) 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 (Heatmaps, Clickstreams, GA4), and iterating designs based on quantitative/qualitative feedback.