Principal Consultant (Senior Manager UX / UI Design, Design consulting Workshops

About this role

Requirements

• 11+ years of experience in UX/UI Design, with expertise in digital experiences.

• Strong experience in leading and managing UX/UI design projects and driving design excellence across engagements.

• Extensive hands-on experience in primary user research, including contextual inquiries, field research, ethnographic studies, stakeholder interviews, usability testing, and synthesis of findings.

• Expertise in research methodologies such as Card Sorting, Journey Mapping, Persona Development, Affinity Mapping, and User Experience Analysis.

• Proven experience in planning, facilitating, and leading Design Thinking workshops, discovery sessions, co-creation workshops, and stakeholder alignment sessions.

• Strong experience in design consulting engagements, customer experience transformation initiatives, and strategic UX advisory programs.

• Experience in preparing and responding to RFPs, RFIs, proposals, solution presentations, and client pitches.

• Advanced proficiency in Figma, including components, variants, design systems, auto-layout, prototyping, and developer handoff.

• Strong interaction design skills with expertise in user flows, navigation models, information architecture, design patterns, and complex system behaviours.

• Expertise in building scalable design systems and reusable UI frameworks.

• Strong visual design fundamentals, including hierarchy, accessibility, typography, layout, and responsive design principles.

• Experience working closely with Product, Business, Engineering, and Leadership stakeholders.

• Ability to independently manage multiple engagements, priorities, and distributed teams.

• Excellent communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and client-facing skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage UX/UI design projects across multiple programs, ensuring high-quality design delivery.

• Define UX vision, design strategy, and experience roadmaps aligned with business objectives and user needs.

• Plan and conduct primary user research activities including field studies, contextual inquiries, customer interviews, observations, surveys, and usability testing.

• Synthesize research findings into actionable insights, personas, journey maps, opportunity areas, and design recommendations.

• Lead Card Sorting exercises, information architecture workshops, and content organization activities to improve user experiences.

• Facilitate Design Thinking workshops, discovery sessions, ideation workshops, stakeholder interviews, and co-creation engagements.

• Partner with business stakeholders to identify customer challenges and translate them into innovative design solutions.

• Drive design consulting initiatives by providing strategic UX recommendations and experience transformation strategies.

• Own and contribute to RFP responses, proposals, solutioning, estimation, and client presentations.

• Develop production-ready wireframes, user flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs using Figma.

• Establish, maintain, and govern design systems, reusable components, and UX standards across projects.

• Translate complex business requirements into intuitive, scalable, and user-centric digital experiences.

• Define interaction behaviours, system states, edge cases, and experience flows across platforms.

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Architects, Engineers, and Business teams to ensure successful implementation of designs.

• Drive usability testing, design reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives based on user feedback and analytics.

• Present design concepts, research findings, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership and clients.

• Ensure alignment between user needs, business goals, technical feasibility, and delivery timelines.

• Champion user-cantered design culture, design quality standards, and innovation across the organization.

• Support business growth initiatives through design leadership, consulting engagements, thought leadership, and pre-sales activities.

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Design, Information Technology, or a related field.
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