UX Team Lead

At Mitratech, we are a team of technocrats focused on building world-class products that simplify operations in the Legal, Risk, Compliance, and HR functions of Fortune 100 companies. We are a close-knit, globally dispersed team that thrives in an ecosystem that supports individual excellence and takes pride in its diverse and inclusive work culture centered around great people practices, learning opportunities, and having fun! Our culture is the ideal blend of entrepreneurial spirit and enterprise investment, enabling the chance to move at a rapid pace with some of the most complex, leading-edge technologies available.

Given our continued growth, we always have room for more intellect, energy, and enthusiasm - join our global team and see why it’s so special to be a part of Mitratech!

In this role you’ll work as part of a balanced team (design, product, and engineering) to bring together the goals of the business and technical expertise to build on our product successes. This role requires a customer-centric view into our solutions and a passion for collaborating to create high-impact user experiences at scale. In return, you will work in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving, dynamic environment in a high growth company. 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a team of product managers, architects, engineers, branding experts, and key customer contacts to envision and iterate a highly desirable, technically feasible and economically viable UX vision. 
• Partner with Product Management to integrate and prioritise UX requirements into product roadmaps.   
• Provide creative direction and contribute to thought leadership around design processes within the organisation. 
• Collaborate with the design team to help establish best practices as well as work hands-on creating design deliverables such as sketches, wireframes, high fidelity mockups, design system components, prototypes, personas, research plans, and other types of presentations.  
• Oversee and quality control the implementation of designs across the product suite so that our customers receive a cohesive product experience.  
• Improve your team’s work by asking for and offering feedback from other product designers and cross-functional teammates.

Requirements & Skills:

• 7+ years of design work experience and a strong background in experience design strategy, creative direction and visual design with a high bar for quality design and an impeccable attention to detail. 
• A portfolio showcasing previous design projects including visuals and detailed walkthrough of the design process/methodology followed.
• Ability to lead a small team of designers and manage design ops across multiple projects.
• A great communicator with interpersonal skills to communicate complex concepts and ideas to many different stakeholders with varying levels of exposure to UI/UX Design. 
• Experience planning and conducting generative user interviews and usability testing of prototypes.  
• Passionate about using quantitative data and qualitative research findings to support design decisions and advocate for the best experience for users. 
• Understands the pillars of design systems, including principles, components, patterns, and accessibility, as both a design system consumer and design system creator. 
• Fluent in UX design tools and methods for creating mockups and prototypes such as Figma, Miro, Invision, Adobe XD, and others. 
• Driven by curiosity and humility to seek feedback until we get it right for the customer.

Minimum qualification:

• Bachelor's degree (or an equivalent certification) in UI/UX design, graphic design, visual communication, product design, computer science, information technology, or related area

We are an equal opportunity employer that values diversity at all levels. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.