Lead UX/UI Designer

About The Company

[REDACTED] is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider specializing in global commodities markets. With a focus on delivering accurate and timely price data, news, analytics, and events, [REDACTED] serves a diverse range of sectors including agriculture, forest products, metals and mining, and new-generation energy markets. Our data is critical for clients seeking to understand and predict market dynamics, enabling informed trading decisions and effective risk management. Committed to excellence and innovation, [REDACTED] strives to provide insights that empower businesses worldwide in navigating complex and often opaque markets.

About The Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead UX/UI Designer to join our team. In this senior individual contributor role, you will be responsible for shaping world-class user experiences across multiple delivery channels. You will own complex, cross-functional design initiatives, setting high standards for visual craftsmanship, interaction design, and evidence-based decision-making. Your insights and leadership will directly influence the customer experience roadmap, driven by customer feedback and user research. Collaborating closely with product managers, engineers, data teams, and stakeholders across the organization, you will help drive both immediate improvements and long-term strategic UX evolution to enhance the usability and engagement of our products.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will possess a minimum of 7+ years of experience in product-focused UX/UI design, with a robust portfolio demonstrating end-to-end work on complex, data-rich, or B2B/SaaS applications. You should have a proven ability to lead design initiatives independently and influence product direction effectively. Expert-level proficiency in [REDACTED] is essential, including skills in components, variants, tokens, auto-layout, prototyping, and managing design systems. Strong interaction design skills, impeccable visual design craft, and experience designing for multi-device and responsive layouts are required. Familiarity with analytics, experimentation, and metrics-driven iteration will be highly advantageous. Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills are crucial, as is the ability to mentor and collaborate with less experienced designers. Knowledge of HTML/CSS, accessibility standards (WCAG), and experience within Agile environments are considered beneficial.

Responsibilities

Design Leadership & Strategy: Lead end-to-end design processes for complex product initiatives, spanning discovery to delivery across multiple channels and customer segments. Translate ambiguous problems into clear hypotheses, design directions, and impactful solutions. Advocate for evidence-based design practices by shaping research questions, success metrics, and measurement plans.

Design Delivery: Create user flows, information architecture, wireframes, high-fidelity UI, and interactive prototypes using [REDACTED] at an expert level. Facilitate stakeholder alignment through storytelling, structured communication, workshops, and walkthroughs. Ensure all deliverables meet high standards of craft, accessibility, and usability.

Mentorship & Team Support: Provide informal leadership, guidance, and constructive feedback to junior and mid-level designers. Conduct design critiques, share best practices, and promote systems thinking and UX fundamentals to elevate team capabilities.

Data-Driven Design: Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and data analysts to define success metrics and measurable UX outcomes. Use analytics tools such as [REDACTED] to validate assumptions and inform iterative design improvements.

Design System & UI Standards: Extend and refine the company's design system by developing scalable, accessible components, tokens, and patterns. Document design standards to ensure consistency across teams and identify opportunities for product convergence to improve coherence and efficiency.

Research & Customer Insight: Partner with researchers or independently conduct lean testing, usability studies, concept validation, and rapid experiments. Translate insights into actionable design decisions and iterate based on user feedback.

Collaboration & Quality: Work closely with engineering teams throughout the build process, providing support, clarification, and quality assurance to maintain design integrity. Maintain organized, well-structured [REDACTED] files with clear notes, naming conventions, and version control.

Benefits

[REDACTED] offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support our employees’ well-being and professional growth. This includes competitive salary packages, health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off. We promote a flexible working environment that encourages work-life balance and provide opportunities for continuous learning and development. Employees also enjoy a collaborative and inclusive workplace culture that values diversity, innovation, and mutual respect. Additionally, we support remote work arrangements and provide the necessary tools and resources to succeed in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Equal Opportunity

[REDACTED] is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and able to contribute meaningfully. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. Our goal is to foster a diverse environment that reflects the global markets we serve and to ensure all employees have equal access to opportunities for growth and success.