UI/UX Lead

About SynthBee Inc.

Role Description

Required Qualifications

• Formal Design Systems Engineering: Proven experience applying systems engineering best practices to UI/UX (from discovery to component retirement). 
• Interface Decomposition & Requirements: Proven experience identifying user needs from diverse sources (End Users, Stakeholders, Regulatory accessibility standards like WCAG/Section 508) and deriving verifiable UI requirements. Experience managing functional decomposition of complex workflows into modular design tokens, components, and patterns.
• Design Tool Governance: Proficiency with advanced design systems management tools (e.g., Figma Variables/Tokens, Storybook, ZeroHeight). Deep understanding of how design scales across platforms (Web, Mobile, Desktop) and localized, multi-region environments.
• Usability Verification & Validation (V&V): Experience authoring and executing usability testing protocols that verify the intent of system capabilities; management of traceability between user requirements and design validation results.
• Mission-Critical Ergonomics: Expertise in ensuring interface reliability and clarity in high-stakes and regulated environments (e.g., Healthcare, Defense, Automotive, Government, or Finance). Ability to design for reliability in "low-error" environments where cognitive load management is a primary system requirement.
• Augmenting Yourself: Expertise in using AI-driven design tools to accelerate wireframing, prototyping, and asset generation. You know how to prompt for UX logic and edge-case discovery while rigorously validating the output for brand alignment and technical feasibility.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Prototyping & Quality Gates: Experience implementing high-fidelity, logic-driven prototypes (e.g., Protopie, Framer). Proven ability to build "Design Quality Gates" within the handoff process to ensure architectural consistency.
• Production Component Ownership: Strategic proficiency in managing the Full-Stack UI Lifecycle. Experience building reusable, themed component libraries that standardize accessibility, security-conscious inputs, and logging across hybrid-cloud or edge-based applications.
• Experience Analytics & Reliability: Proven ability to define and monitor User Experience SLIs/SLOs (e.g., Time-to-Task, Success Rate). Expert at performing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) on "User Friction" and using observability suites (e.g., FullStory, Hotjar, or Datadog RUM) to optimize interface performance.
• Version Control for Design: Experience with branching and merging workflows in Git or design-specific versioning tools.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End Experience Lifecycle Design: Engineer the requirements, architecture, and evolution of large-scale design systems. Ensure seamless integration between the visual layer, state management, and the underlying API logic to meet rigorous scalability and mission-critical performance requirements.
• Design Standards & Governance: Work with Engineering Leads to establish governance for interface control, design-to-code abstraction layers (Design Tokens), and standardized layout patterns to ensure consistency across hybrid environments.
• Strategic UX Alignment: Collaborate with stakeholders and senior leadership to translate complex business objectives into system-level user journeys, long-term UX roadmaps, and high-level architectural blueprints for the front-end.
• Hybrid Ecosystem UI Evaluation: Evaluate emerging frontend technologies and interaction models (e.g., Voice, AR/VR, or Agentic UI), focusing on the trade-offs between rich, cloud-connected interfaces and simplified, edge-based offline modes.
• Experience Risk & Resilience Management: Identify and mitigate "interaction risks," including cognitive overload, dark patterns, and accessibility bottlenecks. Engage in Proof-of-Concept (PoC) initiatives for novel human-computer interaction (HCI) patterns.
• Complex System Interoperability: Incorporate advanced patterns for data visualization and real-time feedback (e.g., WebSockets, gRPC-web) to enable seamless user awareness across heterogeneous data environments.
• Cross-Functional Design Leadership: Provide technical leadership in "DesignOps" and UI Lifecycle Management. Champion CI/CD practices that include visual regression testing and automated accessibility audits. Mentor junior designers on systems thinking and the complexities of designing for enterprise-scale distributed fleets.
• Perform other related duties as assigned or as directed. The omission of specific duties does not preclude the supervisor from assigning duties that are logically related to the position.