Kettle is a team of passionate creatives focused on delivering great products, redefining best-practices, and providing new opportunities for our clients.

We are looking for a Lead Interaction Designer to join one of our largest accounts. In this role, you’ll shepherd the product vision, design new features, and enhance existing ones while establishing scalable UX/UI patterns across platforms. As a Lead, you’ll have the opportunity to own distinct workstreams as part of the larger account, partner with other designers, and work directly with clients to solve their design challenges.

Candidates should have:

• Interaction or product design experience in agency or related environments designing iOS native applications and websites
• Experience delivering user-focused solutions in high-complexity categories (financial services, telco, consumer tech, etc.)
• Experience leading workstreams (with the support of Directors), giving direction to others, and making decisions based on collective input and feedback
• A clear communication style, with the ability to present design work internally and to senior level clients
• Experience working in agile product design/development models.
• Experience working with AI in your design process, either through side projects or client work
• Experience with enterprise-scale design systems

We’d like to know that you can:

• Design creative product experiences from initial concepting through detailed design and collaboration with development
• Deliver on multiple aspects of design, including visual design, UI, and UX, producing deliverables such as high-fidelity prototypes, production-ready designs, annotations, design systems, wireframes, and other deliverables
• Solve complex experience challenges while delivering beautiful, usable interfaces
• Work independently on projects with the guidance of your design director, leading distinct workstreams within your design pod
• Partner with teammates of different disciplines including product management, production, and development
• Work on a client-facing embedded team, building strong client relationships with a solid understanding of their business needs, goals, and how those intersect with the consumer’s experience
• Adapt to different working styles and processes, from data-driven optimization to blue sky visioning
• Embrace challenges and proactively ideate with fellow teammates and clients

The target range of base compensation for this role is $145 - 165k. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.