VP, Experience Design

Role overview Lead experience design strategy and delivery for high-stakes client opportunities, while directing a practice spanning user research, information architecture, interaction design, interface design, visual expression, and design systems. You’ll represent senior creative leadership in major pursuits, shape solutions with sales and technology partners, and ensure the team can deliver the quality and scope proposed. The role also advances practical AI adoption in design delivery and client-facing experiences.

Responsibilities - Lead major proposals from response strategy and concept through finalist presentations and client decisions. - Shape integrated solutions across experience strategy, content, data, and technology, including scope, phasing, staffing, and estimates. - Advise client executives, assess opportunity fit and viability, and build offerings and materials that support future pursuits. - Set direction and quality standards across UX and visual design, tracking delivery performance and recommending staffing or tooling needs. - Test and measure AI use cases in design workflows, establish review safeguards, and bring AI-enabled concepts into client work. - Develop design approaches for AI interactions that address trust, uncertainty, errors, and human handoff.

Requirements - More than ten years leading an experience design team, practice, studio, or business unit, including growth and operational accountability. - Record of leading and winning finalist presentations for engagements valued above $1 million. - Experience selling integrated design, content, data, and technology work, and delivering enterprise-scale experiences on a digital experience platform. - Experience leading both UX and UI or visual design teams, with strength in research-led interaction design and visual or brand craft. - Demonstrated success putting AI into a design team’s daily workflow with measurable results, and designing or selling AI-enabled experiences. - Strong executive communication and business judgment, including the ability to connect recommendations to client metrics and present options, evidence, and risks.

Benefits and work setup The role is remote-first and requires travel up to 25%. The listed annual compensation range is $225,000–$245,000; final pay depends on demonstrated skills and competencies.