Job Description
Summary
Lead UX design to shape user-centered digital experiences, drive strategic innovation, and enhance cross-functional collaboration for a philanthropic organization.
Stand Together is a philanthropic community dedicated to solving America’s biggest problems by empowering changemakers with resources and proven principles.
As a UX Design Lead, you will play a pivotal role in shaping principled, user-centered digital experiences. This strategic leadership position focuses on deepening design capabilities, enhancing cross-functional collaboration, and evolving our digital product team from a startup mindset to a scalable model. You will act as a design strategist, facilitator, and thought partner, guiding early discovery and translating audience needs into meaningful digital solutions that connect user needs with organizational goals.
- *How You Will Contribute:**
- Champion user-centered design across digital product initiatives, ensuring intuitive and accessible experiences aligned with our mission.
- Serve as a strategic voice and hands-on contributor in shaping digital UX, blending design execution with brand and marketing goals to drive engagement.
- Lead early-stage discovery and design strategy, partnering with product, research, content, and engineering teams.
- Facilitate workshops and co-creation sessions for collaborative problem-framing and design direction.
- Define and oversee core experience design elements: user flows, wireframes, site architecture, content patterns, and design system components.
- Maintain curiosity for emerging tools, including AI, to enhance concepting, prototyping, and design thinking.
- Improve design rigor, cohesion, and quality across breakpoints, ensuring consistency between design and production.
- Act as a systems thinker, connecting design to audience segmentation, personalization, and broader platform strategy.
- *What You Will Bring:**
- 10+ years of UX design experience, including strategic problem-solving in cross-functional leadership settings.
- A strong portfolio of UX work across web platforms for multiple devices and viewports.
- Expertise in Information Architecture (IA), interaction design, usability best practices, and inclusive design principles.
- Experience guiding or contributing to design systems, especially in cross-functional environments.
- Strong workshop facilitation and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills.
- Experience working in Agile teams and partnering with product managers, researchers, and engineers.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to distill complexity and build shared understanding.
- Ability to contribute to team storytelling efforts through key visuals and design artifacts that clarify strategy and communicate value.
- A collaborative spirit and a desire to contribute to a values-driven organization focused on human potential and societal transformation.
- *Our Values:** Our culture is rooted in Principle Based Management® (PBM®), fostering entrepreneurship, innovation, and continuous transformation. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity, treating all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect, and sensitivity.