Hybrid Lead Designer – Strategist

Posted 12 hours ago

Apply now

About the role

  • Lead Designer & Strategist integrating strategic design and AI tools at a product consultancy in Chicago. Overseeing multidisciplinary teams to deliver quality client-centered outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the creation of product, service, and ecosystem strategies that connect human insight, business priorities, and technological opportunity into clear, actionable directions.
  • Extend strategic design into product definition, helping clients & teams articulate value, weigh effort, and prioritize tradeoffs.
  • Ensure decisions & direction remain grounded in evidence by supporting generative research, and guiding evaluative & secondary research.
  • Use AI-enabled design & production methods to accelerate exploration, prototyping, building, and learning.
  • Lead cross-functional teams through complex work with clarity, credibility, and discipline.
  • Contribute to the growth of Highland’s design & product practice by strengthening people, points of view, and market presence.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in product strategy, UX, & strategic design
  • Proven experience leading multidisciplinary teams and client engagements
  • Strong experience translating opportunities into product & service strategies
  • Familiarity with product discovery, definition, roadmaps
  • Experience with modern, collaborative design tools such as Miro & Figma
  • Experience with AI-enabled design & production workflows is highly valued
  • Exceptional communication, facilitation, and storytelling skills
  • Masters degree or equivalent experience in Design, HCI, or related field

Benefits

  • N/A

Job title

Lead Designer – Strategist

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$135,000 - $150,000 per year

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

Location requirements

Report this job

See something inaccurate? Let us know and we'll update the listing.

Report job