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.*