About the Role Were looking for a UI/UX CoE Team Lead who understands that AI has fundamentally changed the design profession. This role goes far beyond designing beautiful interfaces. Youll lead design initiatives, mentor designers, shape product experiences, collaborate across business and technology teams, and build AI-enabled workflows that improve both quality and speed. If you believe design is a strategic business function, not just a visual discipline, youll feel at home here.

Key Responsibilities

- Design Leadership: Lead end-to-end UI/UX initiatives across multiple products and business domains.

- Define visual direction and experience strategy for digital products media.

- Establish and maintain high standards for usability, accessibility, consistency, and design quality.

- Drive design reviews and ensure deliverables meet business and user expectations.

- Team Leadership Quality: Mentor and guide designers through regular reviews and constructive feedback.

- Identify UX, UI, accessibility, and interaction gaps by reviewing ongoing work.

- Improve design quality through hands-on execution whenever necessary.

- Promote best practices, design systems, reusable components, and AI-enabled workflows across the team.

- Foster a culture of curiosity, ownership, continuous learning, and experimentation.

Delivery Planning Execution

- Plan UI/UX activities across project lifecycles.

- Estimate design effort, prioritize work, and manage design timelines.

- Ensure smooth execution from discovery through delivery and developer handoff.

- Create high-fidelity interfaces, interactive prototypes, user flows, wireframes, and design specifications.

- Support successful releases by collaborating closely during implementation.

Cross-functional Collaboration

- Work closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Developers, QA teams, and stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.

- Translate business objectives into actionable design strategies.

- Participate in requirement workshops, solution discussions,



sprint planning, and retrospectives.

- Ensure design intent is preserved during implementation.

Client Stakeholder Communication

- Lead client discussions, workshops, design presentations, and review sessions.

- Clearly communicate design rationale backed by user needs, business objectives, and data.

- Build trust with stakeholders by balancing business priorities with user experience.

- Represent the design function confidently during strategic discussions.

Research Problem Solving

- Conduct user research, stakeholder interviews, heuristic evaluations, and UX audits.

- Identify opportunities to improve customer experience, workflows, and operational efficiency.

- Convert research findings into actionable product improvements.

- Measure design success through user outcomes and business impact.

AI-Enabled Design Practice

- Integrate AI into research, ideation, prototyping, documentation, and execution.

- Explore emerging tools such as Claude, Cursor, Figma Make, Lovable, Bolt, v0, and similar platforms.

- Develop effective prompts and workflows that improve productivity and creativity.

- Continuously evolve the teams design process using AI-native practices.

What Were Looking For

- Design with Brain, Not Just Hands

- Solve business problems, not just interface problems.

- Think in systems, workflows, customer journeys, and outcomes.

- Use Figma as a thinking, collaboration, and communication platform not simply as a visual design tool.

- Balance usability, business goals, technology, and visual excellence.

AI-Native Mindset

Comfortable working with up-to-date AI design and development tools.



Uses AI to accelerate research, ideation, prototyping, documentation, and execution. Can write thoughtful prompts to explore multiple design directions. Understands that designers increasingly orchestrate intelligent systems rather than manually producing every deliverable.

Strong Communication Skills

- Explains design decisions with confidence and clarity.

- Facilitates workshops, client meetings, and stakeholder presentations.

- Conducts meaningful user interviews and research conversations.

- Communicates effectively through documentation, storytelling, and collaboration.

Technology Awareness

- Understands frontend technologies and modern product development workflows.

- Appreciates technical constraints while identifying opportunities.

- Collaborates effectively with engineering teams throughout implementation.

- Produces developer-friendly design specifications and handoff documentation.

Agile

- Adaptive: Learns quickly and embraces change. Thrives in ambiguity and fast-moving environments. Takes ownership from discovery to delivery. Continuously improves workflows, tools, and team practices.

Business Systems Thinking

- Understands enterprise products, operations, and organizational workflows.

- Connects customer experience with measurable business outcomes.

- Makes informed design decisions by balancing user needs, technical feasibility, and commercial goals.

- Thinks beyond individual screens to entire service ecosystems.

Passion for the Craft

Treats design as a lifelong discipline of learning. Remains curious, humble, and open to new ideas. Takes ownership rather than waiting for direction. Strives to create meaningful impact through thoughtful design.

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