Lead UX Designer fmd

Are you passionate about shaping exceptional user experiences in complex domains? Do you thrive on strategic impact, cross-functional collaboration, and solving design challenges at scale?

We are looking for a Lead UX Designer to strengthen our user experience team. You will collaborate with product teams, UX researchers, and engineers to design intuitive, scalable solutions that meet user needs while aligning with business objectives. This is an opportunity to take ownership of UX direction, mentor designers, and influence how we build seamless digital experiences.

What you'll do

• Work in a global environment collaborating with an international team and partnering with major clients across diverse industries.
• Collaborate with product teams to develop cross-product solutions and improve existing workflows, leveraging AI to solve current challenges.
• Own the design process from discovery to delivery, ensuring consistency, usability, and impact across products.
• Lead user research and discovery efforts, defining user journeys and identifying key customer needs to inform strategic design decisions.
• Facilitate ideation and design workshops, fostering collaboration and aligning stakeholders on UX direction.
• Ensure UX consistency by creating and maintaining AI-specific guidelines, components, and terminology across products.
• Present design concepts and collect feedback from stakeholders, users, and customers.
• Stay ahead of industry trends, continuously evolving our UX approach and integrating emerging technologies like AI where they enhance user experience.
• Advocate for UX best practices across the organization.

What are we looking for

• 7 years of experience in UX/UI design with a proven ability to lead initiatives across multiple product areas.
• Strategic and outcome-driven mindset, ensuring business-critical and innovative UX solutions that align with user needs and company objectives.
• Ability to drive UX strategy and balance high-level decision-making with hands-on design.
• Experience in conducting UX research and translating insights into actionable design decisions.
• Ability to tackle complex problems and design simple, effective solutions.
• Strong leadership and coaching skills to mentor other UX designers. While this is not a people management role, you will provide mentorship, offer feedback on designers' work, and advocate for UX best practices across the organization.
• Systems thinking, understanding how products and features interconnect within a broader ecosystem.
• Ability to rethink traditional UX approaches in the context of AI.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work across teams and disciplines.
• Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.

SAP LeanIX is a market leader for enterprise architecture management (EAM), driving the modernization of IT landscapes and continuous business transformation. Its software-as-a-service solutions empower organizations to create transparency, enabling them to visualize, assess, and manage the transition towards their target IT architecture. By offering a data-driven and automated approach enhanced with AI, SAP LeanIX helps organizations make sound decisions and collaborate more effectively. SAP LeanIX serves over 1,400 companies globally across various industries, including more than 10% of the Fortune 500 and half of the German DAX 40. Headquartered in Bonn and offices in Munich and Berlin (Germany), SAP LeanIX also has a strong international presence with offices in Boston (USA), London (UK), Paris (France), Amsterdam (Netherlands), and Ljubljana (Slovenia). In November 2023, LeanIX became part of SAP. For more information, visit our website.

SAP LeanIX is not just a product; in fact, it's a great place to work. Colleagues (700) from dozens of countries jointly make our vision a reality. We believe in transparent communication, personal development, a diverse workforce, and innovation by creating ideas that prove useful, and that our world-class team deserves the best software stack money can buy.

At SAP LeanIX, we have a Hybrid Work Mode which means you work remotely from your home office and work from one of our offices. SAP LeanIX teams and team members decide together on the work mode which suits them best. Next to that, we have great benefits for you.

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SAP LeanIX is committed to being an equal opportunity employer. Diversity is vital to driving the growth and success of our company. If you need an equitable interview process alternative, please let our team know. You will be treated with the utmost respect and confidentiality.

All applicants will receive consideration for employment based on experience, qualifications, and competencies. SAP LeanIX will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, belief, political affiliation, union membership, age, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, genetic information, creed, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, marital status, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations.

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