Regional UX Lead, North America

Bayer•Chicago, IL

4d•$151,000 - $226,000•Onsite

About The Position

At Bayer, we are driven by the vision of solving the world's toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none' is a reality. As the digital farming arm of Bayer Crop Science, we advance regenerative agriculture and technology breakthroughs using the latest agronomic science, data science, engineering, and real-world farming experience. Our team is part of significant advancements in agriculture with industry-leading digital solutions and a strong commitment to customer outcomes. The Regional UX Lead will partner with North American product, commercial, and test-and-learn teams to integrate customer insights and user-centered design into regional initiatives. As a member of the enterprise UX Strategy team, this role will represent North American customer and market needs in the development of UX strategy, experience principles, and scalable experience capabilities. The role bridges regional learning with enterprise scale, enabling teams to validate opportunities quickly, apply shared UX standards and capabilities, and translate high-value regional insights into UX recommendations and reusable solutions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in UX, HCI, Interaction Design, Product Design, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
10+ years of experience in UX/UI design, product design, interaction design, or digital-product delivery.
Portfolio or case studies demonstrating strong UX/UI craft and successful delivery of digital products or end-to-end experiences.
Expertise in interaction design, information architecture, user flows, wireframing, prototyping, and visual interface design.
Experience partnering with product management and engineering to design, launch, and improve digital products.
Ability to translate product strategy, customer needs, and research insights into UX direction and high-quality interface solutions.
Experience applying design systems, accessibility standards, and reusable interaction patterns.
Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence in a complex, matrixed organization.

Nice To Haves

10+ years of experience in UX/UI design, product design, interaction design, or digital-product delivery.
Experience contributing to UX strategy or transformation
Experience working with test-and-learn and early stage innovation
Experience designing enterprise B2B software, digital platforms, or complex multi-product experiences.
Experience in digital agriculture, life sciences, or another complex, regulated, or operationally intensive industry.

Responsibilities

Partner with North American product, commercial, and test-and-learn teams to identify customer needs, understand end-to-end workflows, and frame user-centered experience opportunities.
Lead or support appropriate UX activities for regional initiatives, including discovery research, journey mapping, concept development, prototyping, usability testing, and evaluation of experience outcomes.
Provide UX direction and recommendations that help teams create useful, usable, accessible, and trusted experiences.
Identify UX capability and talent needs for NA initiatives; partner with the UX Professional Home to secure and develop the required talent and provide ongoing coaching and feedback to strengthen UX practice across regional products.
Serve as the North American representative within the enterprise UX Strategy team, bringing regional customer, market, and operational insight into UX strategy, experience principles, and scalable capability development.
Help translate enterprise UX strategy, standards, research assets, design-system patterns, and shared platform capabilities into practical guidance for North American teams.
Identify regional insights, patterns, and emerging needs that should inform reusable enterprise UX recommendations, components, or product-platform capabilities.
Distinguish between needs requiring intentional regional adaptation and those best addressed through shared enterprise experiences.
Build productive working relationships and alignment across regional and enterprise product, UX, research, technology, commercial, and customer-facing teams.
Share regional learning and UX recommendations clearly, ensuring that experiments and initiatives generate evidence that can be used beyond a single local implementation.