Design Lead
MetaLab
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
iOS
About the role
- Guide the design process throughout the entire project lifecycle
- Drive client presentations and discussions of your team’s work
- Respectfully decline the status quo and push both clients and colleagues outside their comfort zones
- Foster positive client relationships and directly influence client stakeholders
- Work with Project Delivery Managers and Client Partners to scope project requirements
- Help promote an inspiring and inclusive environment for the team
- Coach and mentor Product Designers to determine and work towards desired career growth paths, sharing tailored feedback and guidance, and monitoring overall fulfillment and happiness
- Work hand-in-hand with engineers and product team members to foster innovation and ensure feasibility and fidelity of implementation
- Promote a culture of autonomy balanced with proven ways of working
Requirements
- 5+ years of product design experience at a digital product agency or consultancy, ideally in a Lead role
- Demonstrated mastery of UI/UX principles, best practices, and common design tools (read: Figma)
- Adequate level of interaction design skills to guide the work (think After Effects, Principle, Framer, Origami)
- A portfolio that reflects your strengths in UX and visual design
- A natural inclination to take the lead and help everyone arrive at a deeper understanding and greater appreciation of the work
- Fluent in translating stakeholder goals, user research, and complex user flows into simple UIs
- Passionate about staying ahead of desktop and mobile best practices, developments, and trends in web, mobile, and iOS design
- Communication pro, with the ability to deliver compelling design rationales in both client and internal contexts
- Comfortable with ambiguity and client briefs that lead to more questions than answers
- Motivated by feedback, and by the opportunity to improve in your role, in the work, and in how you work together as a team.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
product designUI/UX principlesinteraction designuser researchvisual designdesign rationalesdesktop designmobile designiOS designdesign tools
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationcoachingmentoringclient relationship managementinnovationautonomyadaptabilitycollaborationproblem-solving