Mission
Solve user, business, and organizational **problems while making products that feel awesome.
Responsibilities
Same responsibilities as the ones laid down in the Designer role. However, the lead role adds a managerial dimension to the contribution of the designer.
As a designer, you will:
- Ensure high-quality UI and UX across teams, libraries, components, and product strategy
- Collaborate with product managers and engineers to ensure that design work is aligned with business goals and user needs
- Create design concepts, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups for projects on the X, Core, and Toolpad teams
- Update and implement new components on the Core, X, and Toolpad teams
- Develop and maintain MUI's own design system and style guide
- Oversee the design kits production, ensuring they're aligned with engineering implementation
As a team leader, you will:
- Manage the design process, including user research, user flows, and user testing
- Review design work and provide feedback to ensure overall design quality and consistency, with consideration to both UI and UX
- Set goals, priorities, and distribute tasks for the design team
- Provide mentorship and support to the design team members. Managing each designer's career, helping them as individuals and their projects succeed.
- Hire and retain a great team
Performance indicators
- Perceived product quality (how much people are talking good or bad about the product at hand).
- Product indicators: those where design acts as high leverage (documentation, copywriting, etc).