Principal UX Designer - San Francisco - Skill

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    Skill San Francisco

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    Feb 04, 2026

    Placement Type: Temporary

    Salary: $ Hourly

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    Start Date: Mar 9, 2026

    Aquent is partnering with a leading global audio entertainment service that is revolutionizing how fans connect with artists and creators. This innovative company is at the forefront of digital entertainment, offering immersive experiences that span personalized content, live events, and exclusive offerings. We are seeking a visionary design leader to shape the future of their platform, driving impactful user experiences that resonate with millions worldwide. This is an unparalleled opportunity to leverage your expertise to simplify complex processes into intuitive, elegant solutions and set new standards for design excellence on a global scale.

    About the Role:

    In this pivotal role, you will lead strategic design initiatives that define the visual experience for a vast global audience. You will be a subject matter expert and a strategic leader, guiding complex projects from initial discovery through to delivery. This position requires an inventive thinker with exceptional design capabilities, a passion for data-driven insights, and strong leadership to effectively communicate your vision across all levels of the organization. You will mentor talent, facilitate executive reviews, and continuously elevate the bar for design excellence.

    Responsibilities

    • Lead and define the design vision for intricate user experiences across the audio entertainment service.
    • Develop process flows, conceptual diagrams, wireframes, and mockups to clearly articulate high-level design strategies and detailed interaction behaviors.
    • Facilitate collaborative sessions with executive leaders to achieve alignment on product vision and design direction.
    • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define requirements, user scenarios, and use cases.
    • Champion a human-centered design culture and advocate for customer needs throughout the organization.
    • Cultivate and strengthen relationships across various teams and disciplines to foster collaboration and efficiency.
    • Oversee usability testing and produce final design specifications and detailed interaction behaviors for engineering handoff.
    • Establish, evolve, and drive the adoption of design guidelines, mechanisms, best practices, processes, and tools.
    • Drive UX design for high-impact, complex projects, transforming ambiguous requirements into defined design flows, interactions, and content strategies.
    • Mentor design talent and facilitate executive reviews, setting the standard for design excellence.

    Required Qualifications

    • 10+ years of comprehensive design (8 years of UX design specifically for consumer-facing products).
    • Portfolio showcasing end-to-end digital service experiences across diverse platforms and devices.
    • Bachelor's degree or above in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or an Associate's degree or above in a related field.

    Highly Valued Attributes

    • A master's degree in Design, Information Science, Computer Science/HCI, or a design-related discipline such as cognitive psychology.
    • Demonstrated ability to present strategic rationale for design decisions to executive stakeholders.
    • Experience as a lead product designer for large, complex projects involving multidisciplinary challenges.
    • Proficiency in leveraging AI tools within the product design process.
    • Experience designing for AI-enabled features.
    • Proven track record of mentoring and elevating senior-level design talent.
    • Expertise in defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards.
    • Experience integrating qualitative and quantitative data into design work and iterations.
    • Experience designing for voice and multimodal experiences.
    • Adept at addressing ambiguous design problems, working with stakeholders and user research insights to craft solutions grounded in customer needs and business goals.

    About Aquent Talent: Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. More information on our awesome benefits

    Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.


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