Remote Experience Director (UX) — AI-Driven Design Leader

Fantasy; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Fantasy is seeking an Experience Director to lead multidisciplinary teams in conceiving, prototyping, and shipping meaningful AI-driven experiences for top clients. You’ll own projects end-to-end, set direction, and partner with product, engineering, and strategy to turn user needs into tangible design.

With 10+ years in design and a proven ability to mentor designers, you’ll articulate a compelling vision to clients, run workshops, and build scalable design systems.

Qualifications

• A portfolio demonstrating a range of digital product, service, or systems design work.
• 10+ years of experience in the design industry, with a meaningful focus on leading teams to create human-centered digital experiences at scale.
• A proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire designers to do the best work of their careers.
• Thought leadership and strategic thinking that produce a strong, well-articulated point of view, and the ability to bring clients and collaborators along for it.
• Ability to self-direct and independently drive the UX vision for a product or platform, from strategy through interaction design to shipped experience.
• Hands-on familiarity with AI-powered design tools and genuine curiosity about where they're taking the craft.
• A passion for continual practice and process improvement, with a track record of raising the bar for how teams work.
• A meticulous eye for detail and strong design aesthetic sensibilities.

Responsibilities

• Set experiential direction across engagements from brief to delivery, using AI tools to move faster and push the work further.
• Define and champion human-centered design principles and ensure teams execute against them with creativity.
• Oversee complex, large-scale engagements as a hands-on leader with a meticulous eye for detail.
• Distill user research, business strategy, technical constraints, and stakeholder feedback into clear design direction.
• Devise product visions, feature sets, and roadmaps communicated through compelling narratives for clients.
• Build scalable design systems that deliver consistent, accessible, world-class experiences for global audiences.
• Work across product, engineering, research, and strategy to balance user needs with business requirements.
• Mentor, manage, and grow a team of UX designers to advance their craft and careers.
• Lead client presentations, workshops, and sessions with clarity and a strong point of view.
• Build trusted client relationships and own the end-to-end process from initial conversations to delivery and growth.
• Identify shifts in tools and practice and translate them into concrete changes in how the team works.

Skills

Leadership of design teams

Strategic thinking

Client relationship management

Communication & facilitation

Job description

Fantasy is seeking an Experience Director to lead multidisciplinary teams in conceiving, prototyping, and shipping meaningful AI-driven experiences for top clients. You’ll own projects end-to-end, set direction, and partner with product, engineering, and strategy to turn user needs into tangible design.

With 10+ years in design and a proven ability to mentor designers, you’ll articulate a compelling vision to clients, run workshops, and build scalable design systems.