UI/UX Designer - Lead

UI/UX Designer - Lead

Description

• Design Leadership and Direction

Set the design direction for a product line and hold the bar for what ships.

Guide two to four designers through review, pairing, and direct feedback, without line-managing them.

Define and enforce design standards, patterns, and best practices across teams.

Partner with the Head of Design on hiring, levelling, and where the function goes next

• Brand and Design System Ownership

Own the Company brand and the brands of the products in your line: identity, tone, and how they are applied everywhere.

Own and evolve a scalable design system: components, typography, colour, UI patterns, and agent-interaction patterns.

Build and maintain a unified design language across all Company products.

Run design audits to find and close inconsistency before it compounds.

Make the system easy to adopt, so consistency is the path of least resistance rather than a rule.

• Surfaces You Own

Product design across web and the platform, including how the design system holds as products multiply.

Mobile application design end to end, not only the screens but the platform conventions each app should follow.

Client-facing websites: you own the standard and the client relationship; the Mid Designer executes the build.

Marketing surfaces where they carry the brand, in partnership with the Sales and Marketing pod.

• Hands-on Execution

Stay hands-on: translate product requirements into intuitive, elegant design solutions yourself.

Create wireframes, user flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI independently.

Carry several design initiatives at once with minimal supervision.

Use AI design tooling as part of your everyday workflow, and have a point of view on what it changes about the design role.

• UX Strategy and Evidence

Advocate for user experience best practice and usability principles across teams.

Conduct user research, usability testing, and feedback analysis, and make the findings travel.

Iterate on data, insight, and observed behaviour rather than on opinion

• Human and Agent Interaction

Own the design language for how humans and agents interact: trust, disclosure, undo, control, escalation.

Make it unmistakable what an agent did, how to verify it, and how to reverse it. This is core to every Company product.

Set the patterns other designers apply, so this is consistent across the portfolio.

• Delivery and Coordination

Coordinate with the Web Producer on client websites: you own the design and the brand, they own the goals, SEO, integrations, and the numbers.

Stay accountable through deployment, so what reaches production is what was designed.

Direct the Mid Designer's build work and review it before it ships to a client.

Keep the handover between design, build, and measurement explicit, so nothing falls between the two roles.

• Quality and Governance

Establish design review processes and quality benchmarks that work without you in every review.

Maintain documentation for the design system and its guidelines.

Work closely with product managers and engineers so design intent survives implementation.

Hold the line on accessibility, responsiveness, and performance as design concerns, not engineering afterthoughts.

Qualifications

Applicants must be a PERMANENT RESIDENT in the Philippines

8+ years of UX and UI design experience, including clear leadership or ownership responsibility.

Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design across web and mobile.

Demonstrated ownership of a design system used across more than one product.

Evidence of raising the quality of other designers' work, through review, mentoring, or standards you set.

Experience designing for SaaS products or digital platforms.

Expertise in Figma, and fluency in the wider modern design toolchain.

Strong visual and interaction design skills, and deep understanding of component-based design.

Strong communication and stakeholder collaboration skills.

Able to work independently and manage competing priorities.

Nice to have

A portfolio piece, or strong opinions, on designing for human-in-the-loop AI products.

Experience standing up a design system from scratch.

Framer or Webflow production experience for marketing surfaces.

Experience partnering with a Head of Design or equivalent on hiring and levelling.

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