Lead UX Designer

Thomson Reuters; United States; Remote; USD 116,000 - 218,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Lead UX Designer, where you'll shape user experiences for a diverse range of legal and accounting products. In this role, you'll collaborate with talented teams to create intuitive and engaging designs that empower users. Your expertise in responsive design and user-centered methodologies will be crucial in delivering high-quality solutions. This innovative firm values creativity and offers a supportive environment for professional growth, making it an exciting opportunity for those passionate about enhancing user experiences and driving impactful design solutions.

Benefits

Flexible Vacation

Mental Health Days

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Incentive Programs

Retirement Savings

Work from Anywhere for 8 Weeks

Fitness Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

Commuter Benefits

Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of design experience with a strong portfolio.
• Deep experience in Information Architecture and Interaction Design.
• Mentoring skills to help other designers improve.

Responsibilities

• Create journey maps, wireframes, and prototypes for user-centered designs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop new products.
• Lead brainstorming sessions and communicate design decisions effectively.

Skills

User-Centered Design

Responsive Design

Information Architecture

Interaction Design

Prototyping Tools

Agile Methodology

Critical Thinking

Communication Skills

Education

BA/BS in Graphic Design or Related Field

Tools

Industry-Leading Prototyping Tools

Job description

Lead UX Designer

As a Lead UX Designer, you’ll work closely with product managers, content strategists, UI designers, developers, and researchers to create an elegant customer experience. As a creator of bar-raising experiences, you inherently look for ways to remove the difficult and make complex experiences feel easy, intuitive, and have a seamless flow that helps our customers feel empowered. You confidently make — and defend decisions while creating user-centered online experiences in an agile environment.

About the Team

The UX Product Design team is looking for a passionate designer to join our cross-discipline user experience team solving complex problems for our customers in the legal and accounting space across the world. Our team loves solving tough problems and we hope you do too. Our work spans mobile, tablet, and desktop mobile experiences for all types of users. The team focuses on high-quality execution and high collaboration with our partners in product management and product engineering. It is an exciting time to work for Thomson Reuters as we move to bring the next generation of software-as-a-service products to our customers.

About the Role

As a Lead UX Designer, you will:

• Create and build: Rapidly iterate through journey maps, storyboards, user flows, sketches, wireframes, and other design artifacts to effectively communicate interaction and a dynamic content strategy. Have deep experience with responsive UI design methodology and processes (user-centered and iterative design). Create and set standards for prototypes used in UX research testing with industry-leading tools.
• Be part of a collaborative team: Work closely with the UX Designers, Content Strategists, and UX Researchers in a collaborative team-oriented environment to create new products, features, and functionality. Advocate for the user’s needs while developing features that align to the needs of the user. Set the bar for success on your team and your product.
• Be an Effective Communicator: Share ideas, lead peer-reviews, and exhibit strong listening skills. You justify and articulate design decisions during design reviews. You lead brainstorming and sketching sessions with product teams. You represent the voice of your team to cross-functional leadership and keep the product on track.
• Be Curious & Innovative: Continuously update yourself and your team by learning and leveraging new technologies and best practices within the field of user experience in order to enhance our practices. Turn user research and usability feedback into easy-to-use solutions. Gather, analyze, and synthesize UX needs for complex product and user requirements.

About You

You’re a fit for this role if you have:

Basic qualifications:

• 8-10+ years design experience creating simple solutions for complex challenges
• Experience leading responsive design with case studies in your portfolio
• Deep Information Architecture and Interaction Design experience illustrated in your complex application design work
• Experience with industry-leading prototyping tools
• Enjoy mentoring other designers to up their craft
• Strong portfolio of work that illustrates your process, your level of craft, and the results you have driven
• Familiarity with Agile development
• Confidence in working with a strong, passionate, fast-paced team environment
• Strong time-management, multi-tasking, and prioritization skills
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred qualifications:

• BA/BS in graphic design, fine art, visual communications, HCI, or related field (or equivalent industry training/experience)
• Familiarity with: Web standards (W3C and 508) / best practices for interaction design and Accessibility
• Agency Experience a plus

What’s in it For You?

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you’ll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:

• Industry-Leading Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, and hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work-life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceed the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $116,900 - $217,100. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting, and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing, and informing.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.