Senior UX/UI Product Designer

**Job Description:**

**Position Overview**

The Senior UX/UI Product Designer at Milwaukee Tool is responsible for **leading UX strategy and design execution across multiple programs**, ensuring cohesive, scalable, and high-performing user experiences across the product ecosystem.

This role serves as a **key owner of UX/UI decisions**, driving design direction across embedded systems and connected experiences. The Senior UX/UI Product Designer partners closely with industrial design, engineering, and product leadership to influence product direction, resolve complex challenges, and ensure that user experience considerations are fully integrated into product development.

**Key Responsibilities**

* Own UX/UI outcomes across multiple programs, ensuring alignment with user needs, engineering constraints, and business objectives
* Lead the design of physical and digital experiences for embedded systems across product lines
* Define and drive UX/UI direction, including interaction models, design patterns, and interface standards
* Serve as the primary decision-maker for UX/UI design within assigned programs
* Champion and evolve scalable UX/UI systems, including behavioral patterns, visual language, and interface conventions
* Influence product decisions through user research, usability data, and human-centered design principles
* Partner with cross-functional teams to resolve complex user, technical, and business challenges
* Advocate for usability, accessibility, and human factors at all stages of development
* Ensure consistency and quality across product families and user experiences
* Provide guidance and mentorship to other designers to elevate overall UX practice

**Design Duties**

* Lead cross-functional collaboration to define user needs, product opportunities, and experience strategy
* Translate insights, technical constraints, and business goals into clear, actionable UX direction
* Define system-level interaction models, information architecture, and design frameworks
* Establish reusable UX patterns and standards that scale across tools and product categories
* Plan, conduct, and synthesize usability testing; drive implementation of improvements
* Evaluate and refine designs to balance usability, performance, manufacturability, and cost considerations
* Present and defend design decisions with strong rationale to project teams and leadership
* Drive alignment among stakeholders with competing priorities or constraints
* Identify opportunities to improve usability, efficiency, and consistency across the Milwaukee Tool ecosystem
* Ensure UX solutions perform effectively in real-world jobsite conditions (e.g., visibility, durability, ease of use with gloves, environmental factors)
* Stay current on emerging UX methodologies, tools, and industry best practices

**Education & Experience Requirements**

* Bachelor’s degree in UX Design, Interaction Design, Industrial Design, or related discipline
* 6–10+ years of UX/UI design experience, preferably spanning physical and digital product experiences
* Portfolio demonstrating advanced expertise in systems thinking, interaction design, and user-centered problem solving
* Proven ability to lead UX efforts across multiple concurrent projects or product lines
* Demonstrated success influencing product direction and cross-functional decision-making
* Strong experience working within complex product development environments (hardware + software)
* Proficiency with Figma, ProtoPie, Adobe Creative Suite, and related tools
* Deep understanding of embedded systems and hardware/software integration constraints
* Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder alignment skills
* Expertise in usability, accessibility, and human factors design
* Experience designing for real-world use conditions, including physically demanding and dynamic environments
* Occasional travel may be required

*Milwaukee Tool is an equal opportunity employer.*