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Role Overview: An expert User Experience (UX) specialist with multi-facet role to drive customer centric mindset for creating products & solutions for various business units and develop capabilities and skills of the Experience team.

As an Experience Design specialist for Deloitte's DT-US Product Engineering team, you will be tasked with solving complex challenges through elegant, user-centered design solutions informed by a deep understanding of our users. You are a lean UX expert and will lead the creation of design strategy and vision, shaping big-picture workflow and product direction while also delivering high-quality visual and interaction design elements.

A highly experienced and versatile UX generalist with deep expertise in interaction design, you will feel equally at home leading design teams as you are designing user experiences from concept to launch. You have a deep understanding of a product-led approach and working in small, empowered product teams to design & deliver impactful experiences. You will apply behavioral metrics, user research findings, and other data-driven insights to design innovative product solutions that meet our users' needs with exceptional experiences. Join us in shaping the future of design!

Recruiting for this role ends on June 30, 2026

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide creative and strategic leadership for design, collaborating with empowered product teams to design UX solutions that align with business objectives.
• Spearhead the creation of Experience-led vision, and create design assets to bring this vision to life for the organization
• Lead cross-functional workshops and exercises for Product teams and stakeholders to understand users, clarify the problem to solve, and brainstorm innovative solutions anchored in human-centered design.
• Leads teams in framing and solving hard experience problems; Drives innovative UX efforts that uncover new user value with new kinds of experiences.
• Advocate for user-centered design best practices within product development. An expert and evangelist for all things user-centered design.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leaders across the organization
• Connects the entire Product Engineering team with users through presentations of user research results and behavioral analytics
• Provide guidance and direction for key UX core initiatives such as Design System development
• Create strategic design deliverables such as strategy decks, customer journeys, visions of future experiences and evangelize these cross-product "blueprints" across teams
• Actively engage in hands-on Experience craft modeling by deep participation in projects
• Work with design, research, program management, and product leaders on process for product development
• Play lead UX role across multiple products, guiding and mentoring multi-disciplinary UX team members.
• Collaborate with cross-functional empowered product teams, applying lean UX methods, and define success metrics and ensure alignment between UX outcomes and business goals. Connect design with business value for impact.
• Drive insight studies related to the discovery and understanding of unresolved interface problems and needs and lead design thinking workshops to create innovative, impactful, and valuable solutions
• Measure and drive user experience KPIs, ensuring high standards of user-centered design and rapid iteration for stakeholder and user satisfaction.
• Act as a thought leader, driving innovation and removing roadblocks for experience teams to deliver groundbreaking solutions.
• Stay current with trends, best practices, and methodologies in areas of UX, information architecture, UI design, behavioral analytics, and user research.
• Drive programs that enhance user experience and brand consistency using modern intelligence (e.g., GenAI) to achieve business goals.
• Develop talent strategies, recruit, coach, and mentor multi-disciplinary Experience team, aligning with lean UX principles and business goals.

Key Qualifications:

• Expert User Experience Leader and Practitioner with 8-15 years of leading holistic customer / user experiences for multiple products, demonstrating measurable customer adoption and success metrics.
• Master of User Experience craft, fostering a culture of learning and innovation, and recognized as an expert in modern UX Design and Research
• Experienced mentor with strong leadership skills, inspiring self-development and continuous learning in junior practitioners.
• Expert analytical and problem-solving skills, with a detail-oriented, organized, experimental, and visionary approach. Strategic systems thinker.
• Expert in all things user-centered design (UCD), including user research, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, addressing usability, accessibility, etc.
• Expert in creating reusable design frameworks (e.g., Design Systems) to streamline design-to-implementation processes
• Humble, curious, and value-oriented, understanding the iterative nature of product development and favoring action and learning over exhaustive upfront planning.
• Inspirational player-coach, capable of leading teams through transformation and playing an active role as a product experience leader.
• Skilled in using rapid experimentation to develop lean and simple solutions that address customer needs efficiently and effectively.
• Passionate about all things UX and other areas of design and innovation
• Expert with lean UX tools such as Figma, Adobe CC, Sketch, Axure, InVision, and more.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and leadership skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Bachelor's degree in design, psychology, cognitive science or related field; Advanced degree is a plus.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
• Ability to travel 0-10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve

Experience in DesignOps is a plus.

A strong portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience in UX skills is required.

The team: US Deloitte Technology Product Engineering has modernized software and product delivery, creating a scalable, cost-effective model that focuses on value/outcomes that leverages a progressive and responsive talent structure. As Deloitte's primary internal development team, Product Engineering delivers innovative digital solutions to businesses, service lines, and internal operations with proven bottom-line results and outcomes. It helps power Deloitte's success. It is the engine that drives Deloitte, serving many of the world's largest, most respected companies. We develop and deploy cutting-edge internal and go-to-market solutions that help Deloitte operate effectively and lead in the market. Our reputation is built on a tradition of delivering with excellence.

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $137,000 - $282,000.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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Role Overview: An expert User Experience (UX) specialist with multi-facet role to drive customer centric mindset for creating products & solutions for various business units and develop capabilities and skills of the Experience team.

As an Experience Design specialist for Deloitte's DT-US Product Engineering team, you will be tasked with solving complex challenges through elegant, user-centered design solutions informed by a deep understanding of our users. You are a lean UX expert and will lead the creation of design strategy and vision, shaping big-picture workflow and product direction while also delivering high-quality visual and interaction design elements.

A highly experienced and versatile UX generalist with deep expertise in interaction design, you will feel equally at home leading design teams as you are designing user experiences from concept to launch. You have a deep understanding of a product-led approach and working in small, empowered product teams to design & deliver impactful experiences. You will apply behavioral metrics, user research findings, and other data-driven insights to design innovative product solutions that meet our users' needs with exceptional experiences. Join us in shaping the future of design!

Recruiting for this role ends on June 30, 2026

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide creative and strategic leadership for design, collaborating with empowered product teams to design UX solutions that align with business objectives.
• Spearhead the creation of Experience-led vision, and create design assets to bring this vision to life for the organization
• Lead cross-functional workshops and exercises for Product teams and stakeholders to understand users, clarify the problem to solve, and brainstorm innovative solutions anchored in human-centered design.
• Leads teams in framing and solving hard experience problems; Drives innovative UX efforts that uncover new user value with new kinds of experiences.
• Advocate for user-centered design best practices within product development. An expert and evangelist for all things user-centered design.
• Partner with Product and Engineering leaders across the organization
• Connects the entire Product Engineering team with users through presentations of user research results and behavioral analytics
• Provide guidance and direction for key UX core initiatives such as Design System development
• Create strategic design deliverables such as strategy decks, customer journeys, visions of future experiences and evangelize these cross-product "blueprints" across teams
• Actively engage in hands-on Experience craft modeling by deep participation in projects
• Work with design, research, program management, and product leaders on process for product development
• Play lead UX role across multiple products, guiding and mentoring multi-disciplinary UX team members.
• Collaborate with cross-functional empowered product teams, applying lean UX methods, and define success metrics and ensure alignment between UX outcomes and business goals. Connect design with business value for impact.
• Drive insight studies related to the discovery and understanding of unresolved interface problems and needs and lead design thinking workshops to create innovative, impactful, and valuable solutions
• Measure and drive user experience KPIs, ensuring high standards of user-centered design and rapid iteration for stakeholder and user satisfaction.
• Act as a thought leader, driving innovation and removing roadblocks for experience teams to deliver groundbreaking solutions.
• Stay current with trends, best practices, and methodologies in areas of UX, information architecture, UI design, behavioral analytics, and user research.
• Drive programs that enhance user experience and brand consistency using modern intelligence (e.g., GenAI) to achieve business goals.
• Develop talent strategies, recruit, coach, and mentor multi-disciplinary Experience team, aligning with lean UX principles and business goals.

Key Qualifications:

• Expert User Experience Leader and Practitioner with 8-15 years of leading holistic customer / user experiences for multiple products, demonstrating measurable customer adoption and success metrics.
• Master of User Experience craft, fostering a culture of learning and innovation, and recognized as an expert in modern UX Design and Research
• Experienced mentor with strong leadership skills, inspiring self-development and continuous learning in junior practitioners.
• Expert analytical and problem-solving skills, with a detail-oriented, organized, experimental, and visionary approach. Strategic systems thinker.
• Expert in all things user-centered design (UCD), including user research, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, addressing usability, accessibility, etc.
• Expert in creating reusable design frameworks (e.g., Design Systems) to streamline design-to-implementation processes
• Humble, curious, and value-oriented, understanding the iterative nature of product development and favoring action and learning over exhaustive upfront planning.
• Inspirational player-coach, capable of leading teams through transformation and playing an active role as a product experience leader.
• Skilled in using rapid experimentation to develop lean and simple solutions that address customer needs efficiently and effectively.
• Passionate about all things UX and other areas of design and innovation
• Expert with lean UX tools such as Figma, Adobe CC, Sketch, Axure, InVision, and more.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and leadership skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Bachelor's degree in design, psychology, cognitive science or related field; Advanced degree is a plus.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
• Ability to travel 0-10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve

Experience in DesignOps is a plus.

A strong portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience in UX skills is required.

The team: US Deloitte Technology Product Engineering has modernized software and product delivery, creating a scalable, cost-effective model that focuses on value/outcomes that leverages a progressive and responsive talent structure. As Deloitte's primary internal development team, Product Engineering delivers innovative digital solutions to businesses, service lines, and i...