Lead Ui Ux Designer
- Intellect Design Arena
- 10 - 17 years
- Chennai
- 4 months ago
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Job Description
Position: Lead UI/UX Designer
Team: IGCB
Location: Chennai
Relevant Exp : 10 to 15yrs in Banking Preferred
UI/UX Designer
Roles and 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.
Skills and Experience
Education & Background
- Bachelors degree or Masters degree or degree in Design, HCI, Interaction Design, Visual Communication, or related field.
- 8 to 12 years of proven UI/UX design experience, with at least 3 to 5 years in a leadership or senior design role.
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.
Job Classification
Industry: Software ProductFunctional Area / Department: UX, Design & ArchitectureRole Category: UI / UXRole: UI / UX DesignerEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
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