Lead UX Visual Designer

About This Role

This role involves solving complex challenges through elegant, user-centered design solutions for the Deloitte DT-US Product Engineering team. The Lead UX Visual Designer will work closely with UX researchers, interaction designers, product managers, and engineers from initial concept strategy through execution.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible and accountable for visual design and UI production for a product or product area
• Craft beautiful, functional, compelling, and memorable designs that delight the user
• Lead the exploration of design aesthetics, from conceptual development to final visual execution
• Produce high-quality visual concepts, sketches, and polished designs
• Drive and contribute to initiatives around design frameworks including our Design Systems to unify experiences with a strong creative vision
• Develop graphic assets, including user interfaces, icons, and visual mockups
• Contribute to and help evolve our UI Design System by creating and maintaining reusable components, iconography, and visual patterns
• Design and refine icon sets and component visuals to ensure consistency, accessibility, and scalability across products and platforms
• Collaborate closely with UX designers to create and iterate on designs
• Present compelling visual design concepts and communicate innovative ideas effectively to stakeholders

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience in UX/UI design
• Strong foundation in design fundamentals
• Expert in designing visual comps and UI
• Expert understanding of information architecture, user interface design principles, interaction design, user research methodologies, and style guide creation
• Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills
• Expert knowledge of design tools such as Adobe CC, Sketch, Figma, Zeplin, InVision
• Demonstrated experience supporting or contributing to a design system
• Strong visual communication ('deck craft') skills
• Working capability with simple animation/motion tools and principles
• A portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience and visual design skills

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Graphic Design, Design Communication, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• 5+ years of relevant experience in UX/UI design, with a background in digital design, creating simple, intuitive, and elegant user interfaces based on usability principles

Nice to Have

• Experience working with branding
• Experience working on a design style guide
• Experience working with a Design System
• Experience leading Design Thinking workshops including planning and facilitation

Skills

* Required skills