Lead UX Designer

Lead UX DesignerWe 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 customersCollaborating with business and brand partners to create technology, capabilities, and processes that allow for efficient set-up, monitoring, and management of their digital experiencesAdvocating for the learnability, efficiency, memorability, and desirability of new or enhanced features and functionality across the breadth of the user journeyAdvocating 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 lifeYour responsibilities include:Lead and execute initiatives that can span across our entire shopping experienceSupport and evangelize our systems-based design system by being a key contributor to its content, structure, and processesMentor and model best practices in design, our culture, and our rigor and craftDrive continuous product improvements by researching and rapidly designing iterative functional solutions to enhance the user experience leveraging our design principles, standards, and best practicesLead collaborative working sessions with cross-functional partners to identify and define what problems we are trying to solve and how best to solve themUse, contribute to, and advocate for a systems-based design methodology that is designed to support co-branded implementations of our solutionsSupport 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 largeAccess, understand, and utilize site data and metrics to help validate the success of an implemented design and to inform new solutionsWork side-by-side with developers to build and validate all visual/functional enhancementsPresent solutions to cross-functional and brand partners, clearly articulating the UX design principles and methodologies that informs the workParticipate in roadmap development with your product team to ensure strategic direction is aligned to user needs and design best practicesGive 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 effectiveQualifications:Passionate advocate for the end userUI, visual design, and interaction design expertiseProven ability to translate complex design challenges into clear, user-friendly experiencesSophisticated sense of visual design/styleAbility to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environmentCollaborative, positive, detail-orientedPrevious e-commerce experienceMinimum Salary: $128,500.00Maximum Salary: $175,245.00VS&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.Your experience:Bachelor's Degree in Design, Human Computer Interaction or equivalent design experience7+ years of product design experienceProficiency with industry standard design tools such FigmaUnderstanding of the capabilities and best practices of both web and native app technologies and navigating the differences across themE-commerce experience for retail/fashion brands highly desiredExperience delivering testable, measurable business goals