Senior Staff Product Designer

About the position

As a Senior Lead Product Designer, you will lead large-scale, complex design projects across the entire product lifecycle, ensuring that each project supports data and reporting accuracy while enabling scalable design frameworks to enable faster design iterations. You will work on various design projects, from systems design to visual design, focusing on rapid prototyping, and provide mentorship and design critiques to junior designers. The team's goal is to simplify complex, data driven material to more accessible and digestible visuals that will delight our customers. This role is an excellent opportunity to partner closely with design and product leadership to shape IAS's design culture and direction.

Responsibilities

• Drive Design Innovation and Scalability: Develop scalable design frameworks that help formalize the design team's processes, ensuring our products are intuitive, accessible, and maintainable.
• Push the boundaries of UX/UI/visual execution with rapid prototyping, exploring divergent concepts and creating a compelling design trajectory for IAS.
• Influence Product Strategy: Collaborate on product strategy and lead initiatives across digital platforms (web, email, mobile), focusing on quick, effective design solutions for data and reporting that deliver clear insights and an exceptional user experience.
• Incorporate AI-Driven Design: Apply AI experience to improve design responsiveness and interactivity, leveraging emerging AI and platform technologies to enhance user engagement and drive faster iterations.
• Mentor and Inspire: Lead and mentor a team of designers, pushing the quality of design work and providing guidance on complex, data-driven visuals.
• Foster Collaboration: Build strong relationships with cross-functional team members and executives, effectively representing design goals, processes, and team vision as a leader within the design studio.
• Optimize Design Processes: Partner with the Design Manager to improve productivity and accelerate team efficiency, driving improvements in workflows, design systems, and cross-functional collaboration within the UX and Product teams.

Requirements

• 10+ years related working in Product Design, UX, UI, or an HCI related field with experience working on web and mobile design at high-growth technology companies or design agencies.
• 4+ years of experience leading large design initiatives and collaborating directly with design team members to achieve scalable, high-quality designs.
• Prior experience designing for analytics-driven platforms.
• Experience creating and streamlining workflows for continuous iteration and improvement.
• Expertise in Figma with deep knowledge of utilizing design systems; extensive experience in program management tools such as Confluence and Jira.
• Embraces AI and new technologies to enhance interactivity and streamline design processes.
• Experience and passion for affecting culture change.
• Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience.

Benefits

• Salary range for this position is $135,000 - $200,000.
• Equal Opportunity Employer: IAS is committed to diversity and inclusiveness.