The Senior UI/UX Designer is responsible for ensuring that every consumer touchpoint, whether web or app, reflects a coherent, accessible, and commercially effective user experience. This role will own the design system and UX principles that govern how we communicate globally, while also being hands-on across individual markets and product initiatives. Where internal capacity is stretched, the role takes the lead in briefing, directing, and quality-assuring output from external partners.
In this role, you will be in charge of:
- Own the UX/UI design standard across web and app, ensuring coherence, accessibility, and brand alignment globally.
- Define and maintain a scalable design system usable by internal teams and agencies alike.
- Translate strategic briefs from product owners and commercial stakeholders into actionable design direction, from early concept through to detailed specification.
- Champion user-centred design practices: lead usability reviews, interpret research and analytics data, and advocate for the end consumer in product decisions.
- Leverage AI-assisted design tools (e.g. Figma AI, or equivalent) to accelerate ideation, generate design variations, and reduce time-to-concept, freeing capacity for higher-order UX thinking and decision-making.
- Deliver high-quality wireframes, prototypes, and UI specifications for web initiatives.
- Design and iterate on app UX in close collaboration with the product owner and the development teams, balancing user needs with platform constraints and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure designs are handed off to development with sufficient fidelity and documentation.
- Maintain awareness of accessibility standards and ensure compliance across all design outputs.
- Act as the primary in-house creative leader when engaging external design agencies, briefing work, reviewing output, and holding agencies to internal design and quality standards.
- Evaluate agency output critically and provide structured, actionable feedback that improves iteration quality over time.
- Establish and evolve design governance practices, ensuring consistent UI/UX standards.
- Stay current with UX/UI trends, tooling developments, and platform-specific conventions (iOS, Android, web) and introduce relevant updates to team practice.
- Evaluate and selectively integrate AI tooling into the design workflow, from generative UI exploration to automated accessibility checks, and establish team guidelines for responsible, quality-controlled use.
Your background:
- Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related discipline
- 5+ years in UI/UX design roles
- At least 2 years at senior or lead level
- Expert-level proficiency in Figma
- Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end UX delivery across web and mobile apps, at a global or multi-market scale
- Proven experience directing external creative agencies: briefing, reviewing, and maintaining quality standards
- Solid grounding in interaction design principles, information architecture, and user research methods
- Commercially aware, able to connect design decisions to business outcomes such as conversion, engagement, and market adoption
- Deep understanding of product development cycles
How we work:
At Sonova, we prioritize the well-being of our employees and foster an inclusive environment that promotes engagement and collaboration. Our team-customized hybrid work model empowers teams to balance individual needs with business goals, offering flexibility and individualized time management. We recognize the importance of life outside of work and strive to create a supportive and motivating workplace where innovation thrives.