Lead UX Designer

AT&T•Bothell, WA

3d•$143,800 - $215,800•Onsite

About The Position

The Lead UX Designer creates high-performing customer experiences across web and mobile platforms, translating user needs, business goals, and customer insights into intuitive, accessible, and scalable solutions. This role leads the design of complex customer journeys, contributes to enterprise design systems, and partners cross-functionally to shape product strategy and digital transformation initiatives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in UX design, HCI, visual communication, or similar.
Five+ years of related experience; in-house or creative agency experience a plus.
Portfolio featuring structural design for various customer journeys.
Robust understanding of UX fundamentals with a curiosity for emerging technologies.
Knowledgeable in digital brand experience and customer-focused thinking.
Experience making data-driven design decisions to drive engagement and conversion.
Well-versed in accessibility standards, responsive design, and modern design tools with advanced expertise in Figma, including component architecture, library management, and design token systems.
Proven experience designing, building, and evolving enterprise-scale design systems, including component governance, documentation, and accessibility standards while balancing consistency, flexibility, and engineering feasibility.
Ability to effectively prompt, evaluate, and refine AI-generated design concepts while applying UX best practices and human judgment.
Excellent communication skills and comfortable presenting work.
Able to challenge the status quo and bring creative solutions that go beyond the brief, support the strategy, and drive the business forward.
Familiar with business- and consumer-audience needs.
Experience with Workfront (or similar project management systems).

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with designing experiences that incorporate conversational AI, generative AI, personalization, or intelligent-assistance patterns is a plus.

Responsibilities

Lead design efforts across multiple products, journeys, and initiatives while ensuring a cohesive customer experience.
Use AI-enabled design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma Make, Loveable, Adobe Firefly, Claude Code, or similar) to accelerate ideation, streamline workflows, and create interactive prototypes from early concepts to production-ready experiences while maintaining a human-centered approach to design.
Collaborate across teams to align foundational/structural design with overarching strategies (campaign, site, and user experience).
Partner with UX content writers, product managers, engineers, and design system teams to translate customer needs into scalable, reusable components and patterns.
Identify opportunities to improve processes and style guides for consistent design and language across projects and products.
Design comprehensive, production-ready component libraries in Figma—from foundational atoms to complex organisms—ensuring each component is accessible, flexible, and documented for implementation.
Guide and mentor designers through design reviews, critiques, and knowledge sharing.
Facilitate cross-team alignment on UX approaches, helping teams navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, and technical constraints.
Factor in usability testing results when making design and creative decisions.

Benefits

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
401(k) plan
Tuition reimbursement program
Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
Paid Parental Leave
Paid Caregiver Leave
Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
Adoption Reimbursement
Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
Life and Accidental Death Insurance
Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
Extensive employee wellness programs
Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone