Lead Digital Product Designer

Optimity Advisors is a specialized management consulting and advisory firm that focuses on strategy, operations and IT. They are seeking a Lead Digital Product Designer to create and execute design solutions that meet client business goals, while collaborating with various teams to enhance user experience for digital products.

Responsibilities:

• Serving in lead capacity on large, complex projects, create user experiences and visual design strategies and solutions for projects based on business objectives and user research
• Serve as subject matter expert in the defined UX and brand standards and the execution of visual, interaction, and motion design
• Facilitate internal team communication, bridging the gap between visual design, functional development, and content
• Communicate the value of UX, UI, and design thinking to clients
• Lead client engagements from a UX perspective
• Lead participatory design activities, e.g., client workshops, card sorting, to understand vision, business model, and user needs and behaviors
• Serve as the voice of the user while meeting the needs of the client
• Combine UX thinking with design execution to produce usable and intuitive user interfaces
• Illustrate user experience using storyboards, information architecture, process flows, user journeys/personas, and sitemaps
• Use design to communicate complex concepts, whether through conversations, frameworks, or ideas
• Derive actionable insights by leading user research activities and translating insights into prototypes
• Provide coaching and guidance to other product designers on the team to elevate our approach to user experience research and design and promote the craft of UX across the organization
• Collaborate with architects, developers, and project teams to ensure design elements are incorporated into development sprints
• Proactively perform competitive research based on product roadmaps
• Plan and facilitate interactive workshops to build consensus around business requirements and design ideas
• Lead the design team in best practices, design trends, and leading technologies
• Support the development and adoption of design processes, tools, and culture
• Develop, refine, and adhere to design systems and style guides
• Understand and incorporate Design Thinking, Agile Methodologies, Lean Principles and Collective Intelligence into project strategy

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design, Web Design, Visual or Interaction Design, or related discipline with a solid foundation in the principles of design
• 8+ years of experience in a Product Design, Digital Design, or UX/UI Design related role
• Display a strong portfolio which demonstrates work across a range of clients
• Authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis
• Experience with user research, usability testing, and generating test reports
• Experience in the planning and facilitation of Design Thinking workshops
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Experience with designing and implementing web accessibility for web and mobile