Senior/Principal Product Designer
About The Position
New Era is seeking a Principal Product Designer to support the Enterprise Web Initiative (EWI)—the centralized platform and operating model that enables teams across our clients to create, manage, and scale digital web experiences. This role is critical to elevating the quality, usability, and visual excellence of enterprise digital products while ensuring consistency across our clients' Direct brand ecosystem. The Principal Product Designer will translate product, brand, and experience strategy into best-in-class digital experiences through exceptional design craft and product thinking. As a senior individual contributor, this role blends hands-on design execution, visual and UX leadership, and mentorship, partnering closely with Design Directors, Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders to ensure EWI experiences reflect our client's standards for trust, clarity, accessibility, and compliance in a highly regulated global environment.
Requirements
- Exceptional product design and visual design craft with a strong user-centered mindset.
- Ability to translate complex product and business requirements into clear, elegant design solutions.
- Deep expertise in digital product design, design systems, accessibility, and scalable UI patterns.
- Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills.
- Proven ability to mentor and influence designers without direct authority.
- High attention to detail and strong design judgment at enterprise scale.
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Visual Communication, Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field. Equivalent practical experience will be considered.
- 10+ years of experience in product design, digital design, or UX/UI design, with demonstrated success delivering enterprise-scale digital products.
- Extensive experience designing web-based and digital products within agile or product-led environments.
- Strong experience working within design systems and component-based platforms.
- Proven collaboration with product managers, engineers, and leadership to define and deliver solutions.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality product thinking, visual craft, and scalable execution.
Responsibilities
- Set and elevate the design standard for enterprise digital products, contributing hands-on design leadership across EWI-managed web experiences.
- Translate product strategy, user needs, and brand vision into intuitive, accessible, and high-fidelity design solutions.
- Ensure digital experiences maintain consistent visual design, interaction patterns, accessibility, and content hierarchy aligned with Lilly’s enterprise design system.
- Support the end-to-end product design process—from discovery and concepting through design, validation, and launch—within an enterprise web governance model.
- Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering to define requirements, scope solutions, and resolve complex design challenges while balancing speed, scalability, and quality.
- Champion user-centered design, usability, and accessibility best practices (WCAG), particularly for healthcare, patient, and provider-facing experiences.
- Contribute to and help evolve enterprise design systems, component libraries, UI patterns, and templates to enable scalable product development.
- Communicate design rationale clearly and persuasively to stakeholders and leadership.
- Act as a quality bar for design execution, ensuring solutions meet our client's product, brand, regulatory, and experience standards prior to delivery.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
