Lead/Senior UI/UX Engineer

About the job

Role Summary The Lead / Senior UI / UX Engineer is a critical role responsible for designing and delivering intuitive, scalable, and enterprise-grade user experiences for AI, Machine Learning, and Generative AI solutions. This role sits at the intersection of design, frontend engineering, and AI-driven workflows, ensuring that complex AI capabilities are presented to users in a usable, explainable, and trustworthy manner. This role exists to prevent failures by enforcing strong UX discipline, thoughtful interaction design, and production-quality frontend engineering. Key Responsibilities 1. UI / UX Architecture & Design Systems • Define and own frontend architecture, design systems, and state management strategies for AI-driven applications • Design scalable UI component libraries that ensure consistency, accessibility, and enterprise branding compliance • Lead end-to-end product design including discovery, personas, user flows, information architecture, wireframes, high-fidelity UI, and interactive prototypes in Figma • Partner with product, AI, and engineering teams to translate functional requirements into intuitive user journeys • Ensure design systems support rapid iteration, accessibility standards, and long-term maintainability 2. AI-Driven UX & Interaction Design • Design AI-specific UX patterns that promote trust and adoption, including confidence indicators, explainability views, feedback loops, and progressive disclosure • Design conversational and multimodal interfaces for copilots, dashboards, and agent-driven workflows • Ensure AI interactions are human-centered, transparent, and context-aware • Plan and conduct user research and usability testing; synthesize insights into clear design decisions • Deliver developer-ready specifications and support smooth design-to-development handoff 3. Frontend Engineering & Implementation • Build production-grade frontend applications using React, Next.js, and Node.js aligned with enterprise standards • Implement workflow-driven UI states, authentication and RBAC, and real-time or near-real-time updates • Integrate frontend applications with backend APIs, AI orchestration services, and data platforms • Ensure frontend code is modular, maintainable, performant, and well-tested • Implement CI / CD pipelines for frontend delivery and deploy applications on Azure cloud services • Apply modern React and Next.js patterns including App Router, Server Components, hooks, and state management (Redux Toolkit, Zustand) • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices 4. Usability, Accessibility & Performance • Ensure compliance with usability and accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA, responsiveness, cross-browser support) • Optimize frontend performance for low-latency AI interactions and high concurrency • Use qualitative and quantitative UX metrics to continuously improve experience quality • Champion design operations, consistency, and continuous improvement 5. Observability, Quality & Reliability • Integrate frontend telemetry, logging, and error tracking to monitor user behavior, failures, and performance • Partner with QA teams on functional testing, UI automation, regression testing, and UAT readiness 6. Security, Governance & Enterprise Readiness • Implement frontend security best practices including secure authentication, session handling, and protection against XSS / CSRF • Ensure frontend designs and implementations support enterprise governance, auditability, and compliance • Collaborate with security and governance teams to embed controls into user workflows 7. Collaboration & Delivery • Collaborate closely with GenAI & Data Architects, AI engineers, backend and platform teams, QA, product, and delivery teams • Participate actively in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, refinement, and demos • Provide design and frontend engineering guidance to junior UI / UX engineers Qualifications • 7–10 years of experience in UI / UX design and frontend engineering for enterprise or product-led platforms • Proven experience delivering production-grade web applications in complex environments • Strong experience working on data-intensive or AI-driven applications • Expert proficiency in Figma and strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product impact • Strong proficiency in React, Next.js, Node.js, modern JavaScript / TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3 • Deep understanding of frontend architecture, component-driven development, and state management • Experience integrating REST APIs and handling asynchronous data workflows • Familiarity with AI-driven UX patterns such as chat interfaces, copilots, and dashboards • Experience with CI / CD pipelines, cloud deployment (Azure preferred), and frontend observability • Understanding of performance optimization, accessibility standards, and web security best practices • Ability to translate complex AI outputs into clear, actionable user experiences • Strong ownership mentality with focus on quality, usability, and long-term maintainability

Requirements

• React
• Next.js
• Node.js
• Figma
• UI/UX Design
• Frontend Engineering

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of experience in UI / UX design and frontend engineering

Preferred Technologies

• React
• Next.js
• Node.js
• Figma
• UI/UX Design
• Frontend Engineering

About the company

The organization is a global consulting firm with over 10,000 entrepreneurial, action- and results-oriented professionals in more than 40 countries. It takes a hands-on approach to solving clients’ problems and assisting them in reaching their potential. The culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who positively impact clients and shape the industry.