Regional UX Lead, North America

Bayer (Schweiz) AG; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 151,000 - 226,000; Full time

Job summary

Bayer Crop Science is seeking a Regional UX Lead for North America to drive user-centered design across regional initiatives. You will partner with product, commercial, and test-and-learn teams to translate regional insights into scalable UX strategies, standards, and reusable solutions.

Join a global team that values customer outcomes, design excellence, and collaboration across enterprise UX Strategy. The role emphasizes leadership, governance, and impactful design across North America.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in UX, HCI, Interaction Design, Product Design, CS, Business, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in UX/UI design, product design, interaction design, or digital-product delivery.
• Portfolio or case studies demonstrating strong UX/UI craft.
• Experience with design systems, accessibility standards, and reusable interaction patterns.

Responsibilities

• Partner with North American product, commercial, and test-and-learn teams to identify customer needs and map end-to-end workflows.
• Lead or support UX activities for regional initiatives: discovery, journey mapping, prototyping, usability testing, evaluation.
• Provide UX direction to ensure useful, usable, accessible, and trusted experiences.
• Identify UX capability needs and develop talent across regional products.
• Represent NA within the enterprise UX Strategy team and share regional insights.

Skills

UX/UI design

Product design

Interaction design

User research

Stakeholder management

Design systems

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in UX/HCI/Design

Tools

Figma

Axure

Prototyping tools

Job description

At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.

Regional UX Lead, North America

As Bayer Crop Science’s digital farming arm, we advance regenerative agriculture and technology breakthroughs using the latest agronomic science, data science, engineering, and real-world farming experience. With industry-leading digital solutions and a strong commitment to customer outcomes, our team is part of some of the most important advancements in ag.

The Regional UX Lead partners with North American product, commercial, and test-and-learn teams to embed customer insight and user-centered design into regional initiatives. As a member of the enterprise UX Strategy team, this role represents North American customer and market needs in the development of UX strategy, experience principles, and scalable experience capabilities.

The role connects regional learning with enterprise scale—helping teams validate opportunities quickly, apply shared UX standards and capabilities, and translate high-value regional insights into UX recommendations and reusable solutions.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partner with North American product, commercial, and test-and-learn teams to identify customer needs, understand end-to-end workflows, and frame user-centered experience opportunities.
• Lead or support appropriate UX activities for regional initiatives, including discovery research, journey mapping, concept development, prototyping, usability testing, and evaluation of experience outcomes.
• Provide UX direction and recommendations that help teams create useful, usable, accessible, and trusted experiences.
• Identifying UX capability and talent needs for NA initiatives; partnering with the UX Professional Home to secure and develop the required talent and providing ongoing coaching and feedback to strengthen UX practice across regional products.
• Serve as the North American representative within the enterprise UX Strategy team, bringing regional customer, market, and operational insight into UX strategy, experience principles, and scalable capability development.
• Help translate enterprise UX strategy, standards, research assets, design-system patterns, and shared platform capabilities into practical guidance for North American teams.
• Identify regional insights, patterns, and emerging needs that should inform reusable enterprise UX recommendations, components, or product-platform capabilities.
• Distinguish between needs requiring intentional regional adaptation and those best addressed through shared enterprise experiences.
• Build productive working relationships and alignment across regional and enterprise product, UX, research, technology, commercial, and customer-facing teams.
• Share regional learning and UX recommendations clearly, ensuring that experiments and initiatives generate evidence that can be used beyond a single local implementation.

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in UX, HCI, Interaction Design, Product Design, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in UX/UI design, product design, interaction design, or digital-product delivery.
• Portfolio or case studies demonstrating strong UX/UI craft and successful delivery of digital products or end-to-end experiences.
• Expertise in interaction design, information architecture, user flows, wireframing, prototyping, and visual interface design.
• Experience partnering with product management and engineering to design, launch, and improve digital products.
• Ability to translate product strategy, customer needs, and research insights into UX direction and high-quality interface solutions.
• Experience applying design systems, accessibility standards, and reusable interaction patterns.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence in a complex, matrixed organization.

Preferred:

• 10+ years of experience in UX/UI design, product design, interaction design, or digital-product delivery.
• Experience contributing to UX strategy or transformation
• Experience working with test-and-learn and early stage innovation
• Experience designing enterprise B2B software, digital platforms, or complex multi-product experiences.
• Experience in digital agriculture, life sciences, or another complex, regulated, or operationally intensive industry.

Employees can expect to be paid a salary of approximately $151k-226k. Additional compensation may include a bonus or incentive program (if relevant). Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.. This salary (or salary range) is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicant’s location, market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.

This posting will be available for application until at least 10/22/26.

Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. To all recruitment agencies: Bayer does not accept unsolicited third party resumes.
Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans.
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Location: United States : Illinois : Chicago

Division: Crop Science

Reference Code: 890578

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