Senior UX/Experience Strategist: Competitive Insights

Motion Recruitment; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Part time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment seeks a Senior UX/UI Designer / Experience Strategist to lead competitive experience intelligence for a large consumer platform. Translate research into strategic insights, experience principles, and actionable recommendations for Product and Design leadership.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, Strategy, Marketing, Analytics, and cross-functional teams to shape experience direction, using executive-level storytelling and visual frameworks.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Product Design, UX/Experience Design, Design Strategy, Service Design, or a related discipline.
• Experience working on complex consumer-facing digital products or platforms.
• Strong experience with competitive, comparative, or adjacent-market experience analysis.
• Proven ability to turn qualitative and quantitative research into clear strategic insights and recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Lead competitive experience research across digital consumer products and platforms.
• Conduct end-to-end assessments of competitor journeys including onboarding, interaction patterns, personalization, and conversion.
• Translate research findings into strategic insights, opportunity areas, hypotheses, and recommendations.
• Develop executive-level presentations and compelling visual narratives that simplify complex information.
• Present competitive findings and recommendations to senior Product, Design, Marketing, and Strategy leaders.
• Develop frameworks and methodologies for consistently evaluating competitive experiences.
• Identify cross-product patterns and opportunities and partner with Analytics to connect observations with metrics.
• Create journey maps, experience comparisons, frameworks, and opportunity maps.

Skills

Executive communication

Storytelling

Systems thinking

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

UX methods

Human-centered design

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's in HCI/Design

Graduate degree a plus

Tools

Figma

Job description

Motion Recruitment seeks a Senior UX/UI Designer / Experience Strategist to lead competitive experience intelligence for a large consumer platform. Translate research into strategic insights, experience principles, and actionable recommendations for Product and Design leadership.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, Strategy, Marketing, Analytics, and cross-functional teams to shape experience direction, using executive-level storytelling and visual frameworks.