Lead Specialist - Digital UX
Maximus · Princeton, NJ · 4 days ago
Management$125k/yrFull-time
Requirements
The Lead Specialist - Digital UX role requires a Bachelor's Degree in Design, Computer Science, Anthropology, Human-Computer Interaction, or Informatics, with 7+ years of experience.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate the client’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping, and user-testing experiences for digital products.
- Create wireframes from user stories, clickable prototypes (Invision), and layered Sketch/XD to be handed off to developers.
- Work closely with the development team and help guide software engineers.
- Design prototypes while closely adhering to style guides.
- Discover user needs, collect feedback, and present findings to stakeholders.
- Collaborate with product managers and other designers to define, prioritize, and solve problems.
- Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions, and features.
- Oversee complex projects and processes.
- Coach and review the work of other professionals.
- Delegate assignments as needed.
Qualifications
- Experience building and maintaining enterprise design systems in Figma, VS Code, and Storybook.
- Experience working with design tokens, component libraries, and developer handoff processes.
- Experience designing conversational experiences, chatbot interactions, voice interfaces, or AI-assisted user experiences.
- Demonstrated experience creating reusable design standards, component libraries, pattern libraries, or design frameworks.
- Strong understanding of accessibility standards and inclusive design practices.
- Experience collaborating with front-end engineering teams and understanding implementation considerations.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Demonstrated experience delivering shipped, customer-facing digital experiences end-to-end, not only system or framework artifacts.
- Comfortable operating on both sides of the system, building reusable assets and applying them to real programs under delivery timelines.