Director Of User Experience (UX)

Curinos is seeking a Director of User Experience (UX) to lead our growing UX chapter within the Product & Technology organization. This leader will set the vision for user experience across our product portfolio and directly manage our team of UX designers each embedded within an empowered product team.

Reporting to senior Product leadership this individual will ensure that user-centered design practices are at the core of how Curinos builds products. They will balance hands-on design leadership with people management mentoring and cross-functional collaborationpartnering closely with Product Managers and Engineers in line with Marty Cagans empowered product team model.

Responsibilities :

Lead and grow the UX chapter :  Manage mentor and develop our UX designers to elevate their work ensuring they are empowered within product teams and synergistically collaborating across the design team. Establish career paths manage performance evaluation and support professional development.

Process Oversight :  Define and uphold UX standards design systems and best practices to create consistent intuitive accessible and client-delighting experiences. UX standards apply to the end-to-end UX process : discovery research ideation prototyping testing iteration and handoff to engineering.

Champion user-centered design : Bring user needs behaviors and feedback into the product development process; guide teams to test validate and iterate on designs.

Strategic influence :  Contribute to product vision and strategy by ensuring UX perspectives and insights shape the roadmap and long-term investments.

Resource Management :  Manage UX team talent and workload across business needs; own UX responsibilities within product teams as needed. Establish short mid and long-term vision for the UX chapter at Curinos.

Contribute hands-on :  Serve as both a team manager and an individual contributoroverseeing the UX team while directly owning and executing UX work for one of our product pods.

Innovation & Trends :  Stay updated on emerging technologies and UX trends to drive innovation and create competitive digital experiences

Culture : Build a culture of creativity inclusion and experimentation; foster a balance of scalability speed and quality.

Salary : $180000 (with bonus)

Qualifications :

Desired Skills & Expertise :

10 years of experience in UX design with at least 5 years in leadership roles managing and mentoring design teams.

Proven track record of leading UX in complex B2B or SaaS products ideally with data-driven or analytics-focused platforms.

Fluency with market-standard UX tools (e.g. Figma Sketch Adobe XD) prototyping tools research tools and familiarity with development constraints (HTML / CSS / JavaScript awareness preferred).

Strong portfolio demonstrating design leadership across the full product lifecycleincluding research interaction design and data analysis. Please submit portfolio with application.

Experience owning or evolving a design system design standards pattern libraries and ensuring consistency and accessibility at scale

Demonstrated ability to operate across both strategy and execution pitch design vision influence roadmap but also roll up sleeves and execute discovery and design work for a product team.

Excellent communicator and storyteller able to influence executives and inspire teams.

Strong business acumen and ability to connect design decisions to client and business outcomes and product analytics metrics.

Experience in financial industry preferred

Bachelors Degree required.

Additional Information :

Why work at Curinos

• Competitive benefits including a range of Financial Health and Lifestyle benefits to choose from
• Flexible working options including home working flexible hours and part time options depending on the role requirements please ask!
• Competitive annual leave floating holidays volunteering days and a day off for your birthday!
• Learning and development tools to assist with your career development
• Work with industry leading Subject Matter Experts and specialist products
• Regular social events and networking opportunities
• Collaborative supportive culture including an active DE&I program
• Employee Assistance Program which provides expert third-party advice on wellbeing relationships legal and financial matters as well as access to counselling services

Applying :

We know that sometimes the perfect candidate doesnt exist and that people can be put off applying for a job if they dont meet all the requirements. If youre excited about working for us and have relevant skills or experience please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need!

If you need any adjustments to support your application such as information in alternative formats special requirements to access our buildings or adjusted interview formats pleasecontact us at and well do everything we can to help.

Inclusivity at Curinos :

We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such Curinosis proud to be an Equal Opportunity do not discriminate on the basis of race color ancestry national origin religion or religious creed mental or physical disability medical condition genetic information sex (including pregnancy childbirth and related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age marital status military or veteran status citizenship or other protected characteristics.

Remote Work : Yes

Employment Type : Full-time

Key Skills

CSS,InVision,Balsamiq,HTML5,Information Architecture,Ux,Usability,Fireworks,User Research,UI,Axure,Experience Design

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1