Senior Designer, UX

Title: Senior Designer, UX (Product)10+years exp with MRM preferred Location: New York city, NY Visa: US citizen Job description: The Senior Designer, UX (Product) is a hybrid role for a designer who thinks in systems and moves fluidly across research, strategy, and UI execution. You plug into cross-functional teams with ease, bringing the right contribution depending on what the initiative calls for. You are comfortable in ambiguity and bring rigor and craft in equal measure. Responsibilities Lead end-to-end UX design across discovery, definition, and delivery, from research synthesis and journey mapping to wireframes, flows, and final UI. Conduct and synthesize user research, stakeholder interviews, and usability testing to ground design decisions in real insight. Develop information architecture, user flows, and interaction models that balance user needs with business goals. Produce high-fidelity UI deliverables when the project scope requires it, demonstrating competency across both UX and visual design. Collaborate closely with UI designers, strategists, product managers, and developers across the full project lifecycle. Contribute to design system thinking from a UX perspective, including patterns, content models, and component behavior. Requirements 10+ years of experience in UX or product design, with a portfolio demonstrating strong strategy and execution across the full design process. Proven ability to move fluidly from research and wireframes through to high-fidelity design and prototyping. Strong systems thinker with experience applying design thinking to complex, multi-surface digital products. Ability to produce UI design work independently when required, with a solid grasp of visual design fundamentals. Finds creative opportunities within the limits of technology, budget, legal requirements, and tight timelines, without using constraints as a reason to default to the obvious. Familiarity with front-end development principles; comfortable working in design-to-dev handoff workflows. Strong communication skills with the ability to present and defend experience decisions clearly.