Lead Experience Designer

Starcom Mediavest Group Germany Gmbh

$81K — $111K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years designing digital experiences with a focus on platform or systems-level work
  • Strong UX fundamentals combined with advanced visual design skills
  • Experience building and scaling design systems using Figma variables and component libraries
  • Demonstrated mastery of visual design principles like color and typography
  • Curiosity about AI tools, especially in the context of design and ideation
  • Attention to detail, particularly in fast-paced environments
  • Ability to collaborate and communicate design rationale effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design projects by collaborating within a multidisciplinary team
  • Align design with user needs, technical requirements, and business goals
  • Maintain high quality and cohesion in design outputs across various platforms
  • Explore and implement innovative design solutions rapidly
  • Participate in brainstorming sessions to sketch and visualize ideas
  • Evaluate existing systems and advocate for user-centric improvements
  • Stay abreast of trends in design and AI to inform project direction.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Disability and 401K plans
  • Parental and family care leave
  • Tuition reimbursement opportunities
  • Flexible time off policies
  • Support for family forming assistance.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Our Experience Design team crafts digital experiences people love to use. We are collaborators and innovators who thrive in multidisciplinary teams. We can start from a blank page and help realize the vision for a great experience, and aren't afraid to get our hands dirty making that vision a reality.

Our experience runs the gamut from site to mobile, eCom to campaign, marketing to editorial to product (AI powered and non), with one foot in beautiful visual expressions and the other in rock-solid user experience. At heart we are designers who love creating new, meaningful experiences and are well versed in the practice of modern digital experience creation.

You will play a central role within a fun and supportive Experience Design team spanning UX, content, visual design and code. You will collaborate closely with strategy, technology, and leadership to align user needs and system decisions with technical constraints and business goals. You will help set direction and shared expectations for design work in a fast-changing landscape - maintaining high craft, cohesion, and quality across all outputs.

Sound good? Good.

Qualifications

Must haves:
  • A portfolio full of beautiful, usable experiences designed across devices and contexts - with clear evidence of systems thinking at scale
  • Experience building and scaling design systems, with demonstrable production experience with Figma variables, tokens, and component libraries.
  • Hybrid design chops: strong UX fundamentals paired with refined visual design craft. The ability to explore rapidly and build polished solutions, often in the same conversation.
  • Mastery of visual design principles: color, typography, illustration, motion, and the details that make the difference between good and great
  • Curiosity about AI tools and trends. Exploration with generative AI tools (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc.) for ideation, research, or exploration
  • Serious attention to detail - we move fast, and precision matters
  • Ability to think holistically about an experience to ensure user and business needs are met
  • Comfort sketching and riffing ideas with a team
  • Good design judgment when things are unclear, and the ability to explain your thinking to the team
  • Desire to continuously learn and grow
  • At least 5 years designing digital experiences, with real time spent on platform, enterprise, or systems-level work


Strongly preferred:
  • Advanced prototyping capabilities that go well beyond the basics
  • Experience designing AI-powered products, with the instinct to treat AI as a platform capability rather than a one-off feature
  • Understanding of human-in-the-loop design principles and how to make them a core, lasting part of a system
  • A design sensibility that integrates ethics, accessibility, and transparency
  • Strong written and presentation skills that showcase passion and informed opinions
  • Experience in discovery-based activities, user research, and agile processes
  • Experience partnering with other capabilities to strategize, design and build the work
  • Curiosity for (or deep immersion in) the technology of modern experiences
  • Independent organization and time management skills to work across multiple projects at once
Nice to have
  • Basic understanding of front-end concepts (HTML, CSS)
  • Agency, product, or platform experience - ideally a mix
  • Background in HCI, Human Factors, or interaction design


Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Différence" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

Compensation Range: USD $81,225.00 - USD $111,100.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 8/1/2027.

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