Lead UX Designer

Role: - Lead UX Designer

Location: - Chennai

Employment Type: - Full time

Experience Required: - 7+ years

What youll be doing

• Lead creation of core design system and expansion pack components and specs.
  Update and maintain the design system library which includes components, patterns, principles & guidelines. Conduct Office Hours & Workshop to bolster adoption of VDS. Facilitating creative concepting, divergent and convergent group work. Playing a role in evolving the design system by facilitating discussions around proposed updates and tradeoffs and participating in feedback opportunities. Upholding and maintaining attention to detail for your own work and project team. Identify opportunities to gather user insights. Communicating proposed solutions to stakeholders in business terms. Projecting confidence that compels people to follow and inspire the best from a team. Persuasively presenting overall design solutions and rationale to business partners and key stakeholders. Advocating for VDS and recommending approaches that allow designers to do work aligned with design goals and interests. Closely collaborate with the VDS Product , Content & Engineering team. Stay up-to-date with the industry trends, best practices and emerging technologies.

You’ll need to have:

• Experience with Agile software delivery environments.
  Expert proficiency with common design software (Figma, Adobe, etc.). Excellent communication & collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions and build consensus. Foundational knowledge of UI standards for common platforms (iOS, Android, Web). Portfolio of professional work. Contributed to multiple design programs or shipped products with a large user base. Have an understanding and experience with using AI tools. Contributed to overall product success. Experience with Fortune 500 organizational environments.

All submitted candidates must demonstrate:

1. Minimum 7+ years of total design experience, with at least 3+ years in a dedicated Design Systems team
2. Proven ownership of reusable components (e.g., forms, tables, navigation, inputs, patterns) 3. Advanced expertise in Figma component architecture (variants, properties, libraries) 4. Experience in design system documentation and governance 5. Exposure to enterprise platforms (Web, iOS, Android) in Agile environments