Product Design Lead (contract)

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Job Summary: The Product Design Lead is a senior UX design professional responsible for leading hands-on design execution and strategic design direction across complex platform initiatives. This role combines user-centered design, research, and cross-functional leadership to help upgrade and improve enterprise applications, with a strong focus on dashboard efficiency, usability, and platform consistency. The Lead will work closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to define design needs, develop concepts, and deliver high-quality user experiences that align with enterprise standards and branding.

This role offers a hybrid schedule expecting 4-days onsite in New York, NY, Pittsburgh, PA or Lake Mary, FL.

Key Responsibilities:

• UX Strategy & Design Leadership: Lead the creation of concepts, information architecture, wireframes, prototypes, user interface designs, and detailed specifications to support project goals and timelines.
• Design Standards & Visual Guidance: Independently create, update, and apply user interface and visual design guidelines and standards while ensuring consistency with enterprise design principles.
• User Research & Experience Evaluation: Provide UX expertise throughout product definition and evaluation by leveraging user research, testing, interviews, market insights, and other inputs to improve usability and effectiveness.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product, engineering, and leadership teams to shape design strategies, challenge assumptions, align on priorities, and support platform branding and user adoption.
• Team Process & Mentorship: Help organize design team processes, mentor junior designers, review usability activities and deliverables, and advocate for user experience best practices across the organization.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience as a design professional with deep knowledge of UX and at least one area of specialization
• 1+ years of experience using AI tools in the design process
• Strong experience with Figma
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and explain design rationale clearly
• Ability to work independently while managing ambiguity and multiple concurrent engagements
• Experience leading complex user experience activities, including user research, usability testing, interaction design, and visual design
• Bachelor’s degree in psychology, user experience, design, human-computer interaction, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience
• Portfolio demonstrating recent, complex design work across enterprise, B2B, internal, or consumer-facing systems

Preferred Experience:

• Strong user research background with the ability to translate findings into actionable design improvements
• Experience mentoring junior designers and helping shape team practices
• Advanced degree

Why Join Us: Join a design team focused on elevating user experience across enterprise platforms through a blend of strategy, research, and hands-on design leadership. This role offers the opportunity to work on complex, high-impact application upgrades while partnering with product and engineering teams to shape future-state experiences. It is ideal for a highly independent design leader who thrives in ambiguity, communicates effectively, and enjoys balancing execution with strategic influence.

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