Lead UX Designer

Why You Belong Here
At Victoria's Secret & Co, you'll join a world-leading specialty retail brand recognized globally for innovation and excellence in lingerie and fashion. You'll work alongside industry leaders to set the standard for what a retail brand can achieve, placing customers at the center of everything we do to create products and experiences that bring them joy.

We believe everyone deserves a place where they truly belong. We celebrate individuality and know that your passion, experience, and unique perspective strengthen our team and business. Here, you'll be empowered to perform, grow, and engage through unmatched opportunities to develop your skills, gain real-world experience, and learn from the best in the business.

Description
YOUR ROLE

We are seeking a highly experienced Lead UX Designer to join our team. In this role, you'll guide the design of complicated and expansive user experiences for our digital products that need to be intuitive, accessible, engaging, and performant. You will collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, business partners, and other designers to solve complex problems and turn them into elegant, user-centered solutions. At this level, coordinating with teams of teams and driving alignment on complex experiences will be critical.

Through a Variety Of Methodologies, We Support Product Teams That Build Configurable Features And Capabilities To Continually Drive An Enhanced End-user Experience And Greater Business Performance. We Do This By:

Understanding the motivations and needs of our millions of customers

Collaborating with business and brand partners to create technology, capabilities, and processes that allow for efficient set-up, monitoring, and management of their digital experiences

Advocating for the learnability, efficiency, memorability, and desirability of new or enhanced features and functionality across the breadth of the user journey

Advocating for—and designing within—a systems-based methodology that allows for configurability, customization, and specialization of re-usable components that enables scalability and quality.

Incorporating an ever-expanding and maturing set of tools and processes powered by AI to help us more efficiently and effectively bring our ideas to life

Your Responsibilities

Lead and execute initiatives that can span across our entire shopping experience

Support and evangelize our systems-based design system by being a key contributor to its content, structure, and processes

Mentor and model best practices in design, our culture, and our rigor and craft

Drive continuous product improvements by researching and rapidly designing iterative functional solutions to enhance the user experience leveraging our design principles, standards, and best practices

Lead collaborative working sessions with cross-functional partners to identify and define what problems we are trying to solve and how best to solve them

Use, contribute to, and advocate for a systems-based design methodology that is designed to support co-branded implementations of our solutions

Support user research and testing by gathering assumptions and writing hypotheses, contributing to questions and scenarios for tests with the Research team, and observe sessions to help extract key learns for both your area of focus and the user journey at large

Access, understand, and utilize site data and metrics to help validate the success of an implemented design and to inform new solutions

Work side-by-side with developers to build and validate all visual/functional enhancements

Present solutions to cross-functional and brand partners, clearly articulating the UX design principles and methodologies that informs the work

Participate in roadmap development with your product team to ensure strategic direction is aligned to user needs and design best practices

Give back to the design team by being engaged in critiques, sharing new learnings and case studies, and by challenging existing processes with new ways for the team to be more effective

Qualifications

Passionate advocate for the end user

UI, visual design, and interaction design expertise

Proven ability to translate complex design challenges into clear, user-friendly experiences

Sophisticated sense of visual design/style

Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment

Collaborative, positive, detail-oriented

Previous e-commerce experience

Minimum Salary:

$128,500.00

Maximum Salary:

$175,245.00

VS&Co provides a range of compensation for this role as shown. Your actual salary will be determined by a number of factors, including: your specific skills and experience, geographic region, or other relevant factors.

Qualifications
YOUR EXPERIENCE:

Bachelor's Degree in Design, Human Computer Interaction or equivalent design experience

7+ years of product design experience

Proficiency with industry standard design tools such Figma

Understanding of the capabilities and best practices of both web and native app technologies and navigating the differences across them

E-commerce experience for retail/fashion brands highly desired

Experience delivering testable, measurable business goals

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws. Please see links: California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Philadelphia Fair Chance Law, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance

An equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate in hiring or terms and conditions of employment because of an individual's race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status or any other protected category recognized by state, federal or local laws. We only hire individuals authorized for employment in the United States.

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