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As a Lead Product Designer for the Hub team, you will take ownership of UX strategy and design execution for one of RIB’s most critical product areas. This role combines hands-on design expertise with leadership responsibilities such as mentoring, design ops, and driving alignment across teams. You will collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to deliver intuitive, scalable, and user-centered solutions that shape the future of construction technology. You will also play a key role in UX research initiatives, supporting pilot programs, and leveraging data-driven insights to inform design decisions. A strong interest in AI-driven experiences, technical curiosity, and the ability to work in a highly international environment are essential. 

Key Responsibilities 

• UX Vision & Strategy: Define and communicate a clear UX vision and strategy for the Hub team, ensuring alignment with business goals and user needs. 

• Design Leadership: Drive the end-to-end design process for Hub products, from research and ideation to prototyping and implementation. Own the end‑to‑end experience across products for Hub, ensuring consistency, coherence, and quality of UX patterns, interaction models, and visual language. 

• Design System Governance: Collaborate with the design system team and work in close collaboration with front-end leads and architects to maintain and evolve design standards across the platform, ensuring technical feasibility and alignment with front-end architecture. 

• Team Leadership & Coaching: Lead, mentor, and grow other designers in the Hub team. 

• Research & Testing: Drive the research strategy and lead UX research activity, including usability testing and pilot programs, ensuring data-driven design decisions. 

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work at the intersection of product, design, and engineering, partnering with PMs and developers to embed UX in the product lifecycle. 

• Operational Excellence: Contribute to design ops, roadmap prioritization, and process improvements for efficient delivery. Establish UX quality metrics (e.g., task success, time‑to‑value, adoption, NPS/CSAT) and continuously improve experiences based on quantitative and qualitative data. 

Requirements 

• 7+ years of experience in UX/Product Design, including lead-level roles. 

• Proven track record of shipping digital products, improving them, and working through multiple product lifecycles. 

• Strong expertise in Lean UX, Agile, and design systems. 

• Solid understanding of Product Management principles and ability to influence roadmap decisions. 

• Proficiency in Figma and modern design tools; familiarity with research and testing platforms (e.g., Dovetail, Maze). 

• Experience with ClickUp, JIRA and Confluence. 

• Strong interest in AI-driven design and ability to work in a tech-forward environment. 

• Experience in SaaS or construction industry is a plus. 

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working in international teams (India, South Africa, Europe). Travel required to visit customers and team. 

• Fluent in English

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