UX/UI Product Design Lead

As the UX lead you will have a team of UI designers that you’ll oversee and support by thinking through design architectural problems and guiding/collaborating with your team to move forward with the best concept. You will therefore have a holistic view of the whole product, and its features to maintain consistency and coherence. You’ll also lead UX Research, creating and executing UXR plans from early phase research to late-stage validation.

Contract Information:
This position of UX/UI Product Design Lead will have an initial term until 12/31/2026.
 
About Project:
As an employee of pmX you are a consultant of the company, performing tasks for the client onsite in Portland, Oregon. Below are the specifics of the client project you will be part of as part of this job.
 The client is a major automotive company, currently leading the industry in commercial vehicle production and innovation. This project levels the client up by improving processes for the software-defined vehicle world we are moving towards. Capabilities like flash over the air updates and digital twins will be enabled by the work you do in this project. This project is a web-based digital product that optimizes and automates vehicle software documentation and release processes.
 
Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage a team of UX/UI designers, providing guidance, support, delegating work strategically, and maintaining organized workflows
- Solve high-level/architectural design and conceptual challenges while maintaining overall design quality and coherence
- Collaborate with cross-functional leads (Developers, researchers, Feature owners)
- Create and execute UX research plans (user interviews, usability testing, etc.)
- Maintain well-organized, accessible, and shareable design files and workflows and workspaces
- Jump in to support hands-on UI design work when needed
 
What we’re looking for:

• You are adaptable and comfortable with work processes that are not rigid but constantly improving
• Work well and can collaborate among language barriers
• Have at least 3 years of UX design or UI design experience
• Have at least 3 years of UX research experience: interviews, recruitment, usability testing
• Team lead qualities (presenting, larger decision-making, communication, organization)
• Figma Proficiency - able to prototype across features, states, and flows
• Portfolio demonstrating strong visual design, interaction design, and problem-solving, with clear ownership of work

 
Preferred Qualifications:

• Automotive industry experience (particularly familiarity with ECUs and vehicle software programming)
• Understanding of front-end development (data structures and organization)