UX Research/Design Sr Principal

PepsiCo; Purchase (NY); On-site; USD 140,100 - 234,850; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Disability Insurance

Retirement Plan

Job summary

PepsiCo seeks a Design Senior Manager to lead interdisciplinary design efforts across digital prototyping, presentation design, and immersive activations.

You will drive end-to-end user experiences for S&T priorities, collaborating with product, strategy, data, and analytics teams to deliver high-value experiences. Strong storytelling and executive presence are essential for stakeholder alignment.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in related design field required, MS/MFA preferred.
• 10+ yrs experience in UX, design strategy, or related fields.
• Ability to lead complex design projects and deliverables.
• Expert in digital design tools including Figma, Adobe CS, Sketch, InVision, AfterEffects.
• Proficient in front-end development concepts and rapid prototyping techniques.
• Experience creating experience maps, user journeys, service blueprints, and high-fidelity wireframes.
• Strong facilitation, storytelling, and executive-presenting skills.
• Experience with design systems and extensible assets.
• Familiarity with AI design tools and keeping visuals current.

Responsibilities

• Helps the Product Owner define high-level concepts and customer value proposition.
• Lead client-facing sessions and workshops, explaining design rationale.
• Defines interactions for user flows and saves the service/product task sequences.
• Design frameworks to organize information and explain product/service behavior over time.
• Collaborates with design disciplines to balance user needs with business goals.
• Visualizes solutions with models, wireframes, prototypes, and documentation.
• Partners with front-end developers to implement designs.
• Guides customer-centered product design across the ecosystem.
• Maintains digital principles and visual style guides across channels.

Skills

Design leadership

Facilitation

Storytelling

Executive presence

Public speaking

Presentation design

User experience

Collaboration

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in Design

MS/MFA preferred

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Sketch

InVision

AfterEffects

HTML/JS/CSS

Job description

Overview

The Design Sr. Manager is a compelling designer, facilitator, and storyteller who is able to work through various mediums (digital prototyping tools, presentation design, immersive experience activations, and video) in order to create high-impact deliverables and lead engagement sessions that help business program owners to define the end user experience for the S&T core priorities. This Design Sr. Manager will develop a well-researched understanding of S&T core priorities and leverage that knowledge to develop engaging, user friendly and easy to use experiences across S&T core priority applications. The Design Sr. Manager will conceptualize, co-create, design, and present engaging experiences, effectively collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams (product, business, strategy, data & analytics) to deliver value. A passion for using design to solve problems and seasoned presentation skills are a must.

Overview

The Design Sr. Manager is a compelling designer, facilitator, and storyteller who is able to work through various mediums (digital prototyping tools, presentation design, immersive experience activations, and video) in order to create high-impact deliverables and lead engagement sessions that help business program owners to define the end user experience for the S&T core priorities. This Design Sr. Manager will develop a well-researched understanding of S&T core priorities and leverage that knowledge to develop engaging, user friendly and easy to use experiences across S&T core priority applications. The Design Sr. Manager will conceptualize, co-create, design, and present engaging experiences, effectively collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams (product, business, strategy, data & analytics) to deliver value. A passion for using design to solve problems and seasoned presentation skills are a must.

Responsibilities

• Helps the Product Owner in the definition of the high-level concepts & customer value proposition.
• Inspire innovative approaches to design. Leading client-facing meetings and workshops, explaining rationale for design decisions.
• Creates, defines and demonstrates the interactions for the user flows for a service or product tasks
• Designs the frameworks to organize information & help users understand how product or service will work & behave over time
• Collaborates with other Design disciplines to integrate & address user needs and balance them against business, brand and technical goals & needs
• Visualizes solutions, usually in the form of models, wireframes, documentation, or prototypes Addresses the service design or solution objectives, as well as consider the fine details of user interaction elements, components, labels & flows that people use to achieve their goals
• Partners closely with front-end developers
• Conceptualizes and provides support for the design conceptualization of a Customer Centered Product, infusing user values and defining the user experience considering the entire ecosystem.
• Provides guidance on the product design to make it useful, usable, effective, desirable, and differentiated for both the people and businesses they serve.
• Balances creative and business goals, manages client expectations and ensures delivery meets expectations.
• Maintains and evolves Digital Principles and style guides for creating interactive, user-centric products and ensure all channels live up to these visual standards.

Compensation & Benefits:

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $140,100 - $234,850.
• Location, confirmed job-related skills, experience, and education will be considered in setting actual starting salary. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 15% of annual salary paid out annually.
• Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement.
• In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health, and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• BA/BS in related design field required, MS/MFA preferred
• 10+ yrs experience in specialization such as user experience, design strategy, marketing activation design, interaction design, or visual and content design with willingness to broaden your own skillset into adjacent specializations while refining mastery of primary skillset.
• Ability to tackle a diverse and complex set of design challenges, lead complex projects and recognize patterns to help develop creative, strategic, and scalable solutions for our client experience and engagement model.
• Expert in digital design software and tools including Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, InVision, AfterEffects etc
• Proficient in front end web development HTML/JS/CSS and rapid prototyping techniques
• Expert in creating experience maps, user journeys and service blueprints, interaction models, flows, high fidelity wireframes, and UI / visual design
• Master facilitator with proven track record running client engagements, demonstrating excellence in presentation polish, executive presence, and client orientation
• Strong written and verbal communication skills (public speaking, storytelling, presentation building skills)
• Experience working with design systems, components, and extensible assets
• Familiarity and experience with AI tools for design
• Proven history of delivering results on time, within budget, and with high level of execution
• A creative optimist and self-starter who brings energy and enthusiasm to the work
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects
• Desire to teach/coach junior designers in the team
• CPG industry experience preferred, but not required

EEO Statement

Our Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and all other applicable laws, including but not limited to, San Francisco Police Code Sections 4901-4919, commonly referred to as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance; and Chapter XVII, Article 9 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code, commonly referred to as the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity / Age. If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available EEO is the Law & EEO is the Law Supplement documents. View PepsiCo EEO Policy. Please view our Pay Transparency Statement.