Lead Interaction Designer

The role

Kettle is a team of passionate, fearless creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients.

We are looking for a Lead Interaction Designer to join one of our largest accounts. In this role, you’ll shepherd the product vision, design new features, and enhance existing ones while establishing scalable UX/UI patterns across platforms. As a lead, you’ll own a distinct workstream as part of the larger account, partner with other designers, and work directly with clients to solve their design challenges.

Candidates should have:

Interaction or product design experience in agency or related environments designing iOS and Android native applications and websites.
Experience delivering user-focused solutions in high-complexity categories (financial services, telco, consumer tech, etc.)
Experience leading a team of designers (with the support of Directors), giving direction, and making decisions based on collective input and feedback.
A clear communication style, with the ability to present design work internally and to senior level clients.
Experience working in agile product design/development models.
While not required, bonus if you have experience with:

Design of AI-enabled features
Working with Adobe Experience Manager

We’d like to know that you can:

Design creative product experiences from initial concepting through detailed design and collaboration with development.
Solve complex experience challenges while delivering beautiful, usable interfaces.
Work independently on projects with the guidance of your director, leading a distinct workstream within your design pod.
Partner with teammates of different disciplines including product management, production, and development.
Build strong client relationships with a solid understanding of their business needs, goals, and how those intersect with the consumer’s experience.
Adapt to different working styles and processes, from quick turn optimization to blue sky visioning.
Mentor more junior designers, and act as project owner from a design excellence perspective.
Embrace challenges, not afraid to get your hands dirty and solution with fellow teammates and clients.

The target range of base compensation for this role is $140k-160k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.

A little about us

Kettle is a digital creative agency that operates at the intersection of design and technology. Its client portfolio includes Apple, T-Mobile, Nike, American Express, Mailchimp, Warby Parker, and many more. We specialize in delivering digital products and content-forward experiences that foster stronger connections between brands and customers. We aim to be the go-to partner for tackling the most ambitious challenges in the industry, ranging from helping start-ups disrupt the status quo to guiding and supporting established leaders constantly redefining their field.

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