Creative Lead | Onsite - Delaware
The Senior Product Designer will be responsible for transforming high-level business opportunities and stakeholder needs into exceptional digital products and experiences. This role requires a strategic design leader who can independently drive product discovery, user research, experience design, visual design, and delivery within Agile product teams. The ideal candidate combines world-class UX expertise, polished UI design and art direction skills, and the ability to guide products from concept through implementation.
Key Responsibilities- Lead end-to-end product design initiatives, transforming ambiguous business needs into validated product concepts and production-ready designs.
- Facilitate product discovery through stakeholder interviews, user research, workshops, and design thinking exercises.
- Partner with business stakeholders to uncover strategic objectives, define requirements, and align product direction with organizational goals.
- Translate business and user insights into product strategies, feature definitions, user flows, and interaction models.
- Create compelling hero-flow prototypes that communicate product vision, validate concepts, and drive stakeholder alignment.
- Evolve concepts from discovery through detailed design, testing, refinement, and implementation.
- Produce high-fidelity UI designs, design systems, interaction specifications, and developer-ready assets.
- Collaborate closely with product managers and engineering teams within Agile delivery environments to ensure successful implementation.
- Champion best-in-class user experience, accessibility, and design quality standards across all products.
- Leverage AI-powered design tools to accelerate ideation, prototyping, and workflow efficiency.
- Present design rationale, research findings, and recommendations to stakeholders and leadership teams.
- Mentor designers and contribute to the growth of design practices and standards.
- 8+ years of experience in Product Design, UX Design, or related disciplines, with a proven track record of delivering successful digital products.
- Extensive experience leading product discovery, user research, stakeholder workshops, and experience strategy engagements.
- Strong expertise in user-centered design, information architecture, interaction design, prototyping, and usability testing.
- Exceptional UX design skills with a portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design from concept through implementation.
- Strong visual design, UI design, and art direction capabilities.
- Expert proficiency in Figma, including prototyping, design systems, and collaborative workflows.
- Experience working within Agile product development environments and partnering closely with engineering teams.
- Strong leadership, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience with AI-powered design tools such as Figma Make, Claude Design, and similar emerging platforms.
- Understanding of AI-assisted creative workflows and prompt-based design generation.
- Experience designing enterprise software, SaaS platforms, or complex digital products.
- Experience building and scaling design systems.
- Experience facilitating strategic product discovery and innovation workshops.
- Experience integrating AI capabilities into digital products and design processes.
- Previous experience mentoring designers and contributing to high-performing design teams.