Senior UX Lead: Shape Smart Home & Connected UX

Kiska; Salzburg; On-site; EUR 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

KISKA in Austria is seeking a Senior UX Lead who blends hands-on UX craft with strategic leadership to shape complex digital products across smart home, mobility, and professional tools. You will set the design direction and stay hands-on, turning ambitious briefs into intuitive experiences while guiding teams to deliver high-quality work.

You will mentor designers, define interaction principles, partner with product owners, researchers, developers and senior clients, and ensure brand-consistent

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience in UX, interaction, or digital product design with responsibility for complex products or ecosystems.
• Excellent UX fundamentals, interaction design skills, accessibility knowledge, and proficiency in Figma and prototyping.
• Track record of leading UX work, mentoring designers, and making sound design decisions.
• Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills; comfortable collaborating directly with senior clients.
• Experience with connected products, smart home, HMI, or technical interfaces is a plus.
• Fluency in both English and German.

Responsibilities

• Lead UX direction from complex briefs and user needs through concepts, flows, prototypes, and delivery.
• Guide and mentor UX designers, sharing your experience through hands‑on feedback and thoughtful design critique.
• Define scalable interaction principles and UX standards for connected platforms and smart ecosystems.
• Act as a trusted UX partner to clients – shaping decisions, challenging assumptions, and building confidence with senior stakeholders.
• Partner closely with Product Owners, Project Managers, researchers, developers, and designers to balance user value, business objectives, and technical feasibility.
• Validate concepts through testing and insights and guide iteration through implementation.
• Ensure a consistent, compelling experience that reflects each client’s brand across touchpoints.

Skills

UX design

Interaction design

Leadership

Mentoring

Figma

Prototyping

Stakeholder management

Communication

English

German

Job description

KISKA in Austria is seeking a Senior UX Lead who blends hands-on UX craft with strategic leadership to shape complex digital products across smart home, mobility, and professional tools. You will set the design direction and stay hands-on, turning ambitious briefs into intuitive experiences while guiding teams to deliver high-quality work.

You will mentor designers, define interaction principles, partner with product owners, researchers, developers and senior clients, and ensure brand-consistent