Lead UX / UI Designer

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge : Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

GEICO is looking for an accomplished, customer obsessed, and results oriented Lead UX / UI Designer . The ideal candidate will be comfortable collaborating with business owners, engineers, and product management to lead design programs acrossuser research, requirements, user workflows, interface design and usability studies.

As a Lead UX / UI designer you will be responsible for designing high quality solutions that put the customer at the center and achieving strategic outcomes that move our business forward. You will be leading and mentoring other designers on project teams and working directly with product management to align priorities and engineering backlogs. You will be part of a multi-disciplinary design and research team that values people, human-centered design and a growth mindset.

This position is a hybrid role that requires to be on-site 2-3 days a week at one of the following locations : Chevy Chase, MD; New York City, NY; Chicago, IL; Palo Alto, CA; Seattle, WA; Dallas, TX.

Job Responsibilities

Collaborates with product, engineering, and business teams to uncover customer and business needs

Translates complex ideas into understandable concepts and solutions that evolve and enhance the product experience

Manages through shifting priorities to provide clear direction and input on product prioritization and support early product definition

Advocates for the customer through human-centered design methods, including discovery, research, and user testing

Facilitates and participates in workshops with internal and external stakeholders to align with business needs

Drives end-to-end product design process by framing problems, developing insights, and designing new methodologies / practices to serve customer needs

Creates process and user flows, wireframes, journey maps, and user interface specifications

Delivers design assets for acceptance, development, and delivery to market in partnership with engineering

Teach, mentor and guide designers

Basic Qualifications

8+ years of experience with User Experience design

Preferred Qualifications

Experience designing for cross channele.g. responsive web and native mobile interfaces

Demonstrate ability to work across design processes e.g. user research,user experience design, UI design and specifications

Ability to design and implement service design solutions and experience strategy initiatives

Experience leading project teams of multiple designers within agile development environments

Ability to collaborate with Product Management, Engineering and Operations teams.

Effective communication and storytelling skills

Ability to work autonomously with minimal direction

Proficiency with design tools (i.e., Figma) to deliver concepts and enable successful collaboration across teams

Familiarity with working in an established design system withinagile development teams

Annual Salary

$120,950.00 - $212,175.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate / annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The GEICO Pledge :

Great Company :  At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers :  We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture :  We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards :  We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.