Lead UX Designer

Overview

Lead the end-to-end UI/UX design of complex enterprise applications, translating user research and business requirements into intuitive, consistent and accessible experiences, while providing design leadership across cross-functional teams.

What you'll do

• Lead the end-to-end UI/UX design process from user research and requirement understanding through design, validation, and implementation.
• Understand business objectives, user needs, workflows, and pain points to create effective user-centered solutions.
• Conduct user research, stakeholder interviews, contextual inquiries, and usability studies.
• Translate research findings into user journeys, personas, workflows, information architecture, and design recommendations.
• Create wireframes, user flows, mockups, and interactive prototypes for web and desktop applications.
• Develop high-fidelity UI designs that are intuitive, consistent, accessible, and visually engaging.
• Define and maintain reusable design systems, component libraries, design patterns, and UI guidelines.
• Ensure consistent user experience across applications, modules, and product platforms.
• Plan and conduct usability testing and incorporate user feedback into design improvements.
• Identify usability issues and recommend improvements based on user behavior, feedback, and product requirements.
• Collaborate closely with frontend developers to ensure accurate implementation of UX and UI designs.
• Provide design specifications, interaction guidelines, assets, and implementation support to engineering teams.
• Participate in design reviews and evaluate implemented solutions for usability and design consistency.
• Balance user needs, business requirements, technical constraints, and delivery timelines.
• Mentor designers and provide guidance on UX methods, design practices, and design-system adoption.
• Promote user-centered design principles and usability best practices across cross-functional teams.
• Provide design leadership for complex products and applications.
• Establish UI/UX standards, guidelines, and design best practices.
• Drive adoption and governance of enterprise design systems.
• Facilitate design workshops, brainstorming sessions, and stakeholder discussions.
• Influence product decisions using user research, usability insights, and design thinking.
• Review design solutions and ensure consistency across products.
• Mentor designers and help improve overall design maturity within the team.
• Collaborate effectively with product management, engineering, quality, and business teams.
• Communicate design decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Advocate for the user throughout the product development lifecycle.

What you'll need

• 6 to 10 years of overall experience in UI/UX, product design, or interaction design.
• Strong experience in UI and UX design for complex enterprise applications.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and UX methodologies.
• Hands-on experience conducting user research and usability studies.
• Strong experience creating wireframes, user journeys, user flows, and information architecture.
• Extensive experience developing low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes.
• Strong experience with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, or equivalent tools.
• Experience creating, maintaining, and governing design systems and reusable component libraries.
• Strong knowledge of interaction design, visual hierarchy, typography, layout, and information presentation.
• Proven experience identifying and implementing usability improvements.
• Ability to design responsive experiences across different screen sizes and form factors.
• Good understanding of frontend technologies and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of accessibility and inclusive design principles.
• Ability to translate complex workflows and technical requirements into intuitive user experiences.
• Experience working throughout the complete product development lifecycle.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Nice to have

• Experience designing large-scale enterprise, scientific, healthcare, engineering, or data-intensive applications.
• Experience working on complex workflows involving dashboards, visualization, configuration, or operational tasks.
• Knowledge of Design Thinking and Human-Centered Design methodologies.
• Experience conducting moderated and unmoderated usability testing.
• Familiarity with accessibility standards such as WCAG.
• Experience designing for responsive web applications and desktop applications.
• Understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frontend frameworks.
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum product development teams.
• Experience collaborating with globally distributed product and engineering teams.
• Familiarity with design analytics, user feedback mechanisms, or UX measurement techniques.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Work schedule: Standard (Mon-Fri), office environment.