Manager, UX Product Designer

About the position

As a Manager UX Product Designer for the Deloitte DT-US Product Engineering team, you will be tasked with solving complex challenges through elegant, user-centered design solutions. Our ideal candidate is a versatile design generalist with deep expertise in interaction design. You should feel equally at home shaping big-picture workflow and strategy as you are prototyping details visual and interaction elements. This role requires a proven track-record of experience-driven innovation. Join us in shaping the future of design! You are a user-centered design expert and will lead the creation of design strategy and vision, shaping big-picture workflow and product direction while also delivering high-quality visual and interaction design elements. You have a deep understanding of lean UX approaches and working in small, empowered product teams to design & deliver impactful experiences. You will apply behavioral metrics, user research findings, and other data-driven insights to design innovative product solutions that delight our users and meet their needs.

Responsibilities

• Responsible and accountable for design and usability for a product or product area.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design engaging and intuitive user experiences using an iterative lean UX approach of continuous improvement.
• Leads teams in framing and solving hard experience problems; Drives innovative UX efforts that uncover new user value with new kinds of experiences.
• Bring your expertise in the Experience craft to the cross functional product team, think deeply about complex experience challenges, and propose effective and elegant solutions.
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.
• Develop new approaches to complex design problems and convey these designs in the form of presentations, mockups, and click-thru prototypes that bring your vision to life.
• Create strategic big-picture workflows as well as execute detailed visual & interaction design.
• Partner with user researchers and influence insight studies related to the discovery and understanding of unresolved interface problems and product design opportunities.
• Design and deliver all UX assets including initial concept designs, user flows, wireframes, usage scenarios, user journeys, mockups, etc that support intuitive and seamless user interactions.
• Understand business priorities together with user needs to create impactful experiences.
• Collaborates with business stakeholders, engineering, product, and delivery to emerge solutions to achieve strategy objectives and KPI outcomes.
• Contribute to the overall design framework, ensuring consistent design language and experiences across the product suite, and a library of design assets for reusability and efficiency.
• Actively engage in hands-on Experience craft modeling by deep participation in projects.
• Conduct heuristic evaluations of existing products to identify areas for improvement.
• Uphold high standards of user-centered design, iterating quickly and testing designs to enhance usability and consistency across touchpoints.
• Continuously challenge design effectiveness, monitor behavioral analytics, and suggest improvements to optimize user experiences.
• Operate effectively in both collaborative environments with other UX designers and autonomously when acting as the sole UX designer on a product squad.
• Spreads knowledge, practices, and improvements in experience vertical community of practice. Stays current with trends in UX.

Requirements

• Minimum 6 years in Interaction or product design with a strong track record of crafting intuitive user interfaces that engage and delight users.
• Experience in Design Thinking, Lean UX, and iteratively evolving designs based on continuous user testing.
• Knowledge of interactive design principles, consistently delivering simple, elegant, and aesthetically pleasing interfaces rooted in usability and accessibility.
• Proficient in designing for both desktop and mobile platforms, with a focus on responsive and adaptive design that enhances the user experience across devices.
• Experience with industry standard UX tools, including Sketch, Adobe CC, Figma, Axure, InVision, UXPin, and Balsamiq, ensuring efficient design workflows.
• A strong portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience and UX skills is required.

Nice-to-haves

• Advanced education degree preferred.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills, able to prioritize tasks effectively and work independently to meet deadlines.
• Enjoys operating in a Product-led approach, as a member of an empowered cross-functional product squad, that moves quickly and dynamically to meet user needs and deliver business impact.
• Driven by a passion for solving user pain points, leveraging design thinking and user feedback to create optimized and valuable experiences.
• Highly creative and analytical, able to navigate between strategic vision and hands-on execution, ensuring solutions are innovative and functional.
• Collaborative and open-minded, eager to contribute to team success while continuously learning and iterating on designs based on feedback.
• Thrives in dynamic, fast-paced environments, iterating quickly to incorporate feedback and improve outcomes.
• Deeply passionate about UX and innovation, constantly exploring new design trends and methodologies.
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills, equally at ease speaking with development teams or executives when articulating and advocating design concepts and rationale, negotiating and influencing to build consensus.

Benefits

• Discretionary annual incentive program based on individual and organizational performance.
• Broad range of benefits offered by Deloitte.