Lead User Interface Designer

Position – Lead UI/UX Designer

Location- Chennai

Relevant Exp: 10 – 15yrs in Banking Preferred

About the Role

Responsibilities

Hands-on Design Responsibilities

• Champion principles of usability, accessibility, and user-centered design.
• Apply knowledge of designing in an Agile environment while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Conduct user research, stakeholder interviews, heuristic evaluations, and competitive analysis.
• Develop user flows, journey maps, wireframes, page flows, and sitemaps.
• Create high-fidelity mockups, prototypes, and UI assets aligned with style guides and brand standards.
• Define and apply visual design principles, design language, typography, iconography, and motion/interaction design.
• Recommend modern navigation patterns and support scalable information architecture.
• Design and propose signature interaction patterns for web and native apps, validated through testing.
• Revise and improve designs based on user feedback, usability testing, analytics, and technical feasibility.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure accurate implementation of design specifications.
• Partner with QA/testing teams to define usability criteria and support user acceptance testing.
• Create and maintain UX design specifications and documentation.
• Leadership & Strategic Responsibilities
• Provide vision and leadership for UI/UX strategy across products and platforms.
• Drive the adoption of inclusive design practices aligned with accessibility standards (WCAG, ADA, EAA).
• Act as a design advocate influencing product strategy, culture, and customer-first mindset.
• Lead design workshops, design sprints, and brainstorming sessions with stakeholders.
• Mentor and guide junior designers, offering feedback, training, and knowledge sharing.
• Oversee and evolve the centralized design system/component library to ensure consistency.
• Partner with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Development Leads to align business goals with design outcomes.
• Communicate design strategies and decisions effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Define and track UX success metrics (usability scores, NPS, conversion rates, etc.).
• Stay updated with industry trends, tools, and emerging technologies and recommend adoption where beneficial.
• Balance business goals, technical constraints, and user needs when driving design decisions.

Qualifications

• Education & Background
• Bachelor's degree or Master's degree or degree in Design, HCI, Interaction Design, Visual Communication, or related field.
• 8–12 years of proven UI/UX design experience, with at least 3–5 years in a leadership or senior design role.

Required Skills

Design Expertise

• Strong command of user-centered design principles, usability, and accessibility (WCAG/ADA/EAA).
• Proficiency in design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, InVision, or equivalent.
• Expertise in information architecture, interaction design, and responsive design across web and mobile platforms.
• Ability to create wireframes, user flows, journey maps, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups.
• Solid understanding of visual design systems, typography, color theory, iconography, and motion/animation design.
• Research & Strategy
• Hands-on experience conducting user research, usability testing, heuristic evaluations, and competitive analysis.
• Ability to translate business requirements and user insights into scalable design strategies.
• Familiarity with design thinking, design sprints, and agile methodologies.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Experience leading design teams, mentoring junior designers, and providing constructive feedback.
• Strong collaboration skills to work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Engineering teams.
• Skilled in stakeholder management and communicating design rationale to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience in building and maintaining a design system or component library for large-scale products.

Technical & Analytical Skills

• Working knowledge of front-end development technologies (HTML, CSS, JS) to collaborate effectively with developers.
• Familiarity with design-to-dev handoff tools (Zeplin, Figma Inspect, Storybook).

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills.
• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making abilities.
• Ability to balance user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility in design solutions.
• Proactive, adaptable, and able to thrive in fast-paced agile environments.