Senior User Experience Designer

Design Lead – Global Media & Entertainment Company (Contract)

A global media and entertainment leader is seeking a
Design Lead
to drive the product vision, shape user experience strategy, and lead cross-functional design execution for a high-impact enterprise platform. This role is perfect for a senior design leader who can balance strategy, hands-on design, and collaboration across product, engineering, and data teams.

About the Role

As the Design Lead, you will act as a strategic thought partner and hands-on design expert, guiding end-to-end product experience across multiple workstreams. You'll set the product's UX vision, lead research and design execution, and ensure delivery of production-ready materials with speed and quality. This is a highly collaborative role working with product owners, data scientists, engineers, and senior stakeholders to build an integrated, data-driven platform.

What You'll Do:

Champion the Product Vision

• Define the UX strategy and long-term design direction aligned with business and product goals.
• Guide the evolution of the platform toward an integrated system leveraging predictive analytics and advanced user experience orchestration.

Lead Design Execution

• Own iterative design research (generative + evaluative) to influence product backlog and inform design decisions.
• Deliver detailed user stories, flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs.
• Influence acceptance criteria, prioritization, and overall UX strategy within Agile ceremonies.

Drive Operational Excellence

• Lead the POD design team in building, maintaining, and improving the design system and design ops processes.
• Ensure UX consistency, efficiency, and design quality across workstreams.

Collaborate Across Teams

• Partner closely with product, data science, and engineering teams to ensure successful design implementation.
• Facilitate technical and design discussions across PODs to maintain best-in-class standards and consistency.
• Promote design maturity, HCD practices, and accessibility across the organization.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as the primary UX voice during sprint demos, presentations, and leadership reviews.
• Ensure adherence to accessibility, UX standards, and design governance.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years leading design teams
  with strong player-coach abilities.
• 8+ years of UX/Product Design experience
  with mastery in Figma (portfolio required).
• Proven ability to drive innovation, solve complex problems, and deliver high-quality work in fast-paced environments.
• Deep experience working cross-functionally with product, engineering, and data teams.
• Expertise with:
  Figma, Miro, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft 365
  .

Nice to Have

• Experience designing enterprise or internal B2B platforms.
• Background in Finance, Media, or Entertainment.
• Knowledge of software design/development lifecycles.
• Skills in
  data visualization
  or
  rapid prototyping
  .
• Ability to work with large datasets and translate insights into UX decisions.