Senior UX Designer

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Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
In-Office
Senior level
eCommerce • Retail • Software
The Role
Leads end-to-end UX design for complex digital products across mobile, desktop, and app platforms. Translates business, user, and technical needs into user flows, wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity designs, and production-ready assets. Conducts research and usability validation, maintains accessibility and design-system standards, monitors experience quality, improves workflows, and supports junior designers. Collaborates with product, engineering, QA, research, architecture, and stakeholders to clarify requirements, facilitate critiques, and ensure effective handoffs and release readiness.
Summary Generated by Built In
The Senior UX Designer leads the design and delivery of intuitive, scalable, and high quality user experience solutions by translating business objectives, user needs, and technical requirements into coherent, production ready designs across mobile, desktop, and app platforms. The role ensures design excellence by applying user centered design practices, maintaining design standards and accessibility guidelines, conducting systematic research and usability validation, and enabling predictable delivery of exceptional, consistent, and impactful digital experiences.

Functional Responsibilities

· Deliver end-to-end user experience solutions by translating business goals, user needs, and

technical requirements into interaction designs, visual specifications, and production-ready assets

that meet usability, consistency, and quality standards.

· Prepare and maintain design artifacts such as user flows, wireframes, high fidelity mockups,

prototypes, research insights, usability findings, and design documentation to support stakeholder

reviews, development hand off, and release readiness.

· Identify and implement small, practical improvements in design patterns, component usage,

documentation, tooling workflows, or collaboration models to improve efficiency, reusability, and

experience consistency.

· Monitor experience quality indicators for owned design areas, including usability findings, feedback

trends, accessibility compliance, and design review outcomes, and share insights that improve

decision-making and overall experience quality.

People Responsibilities

· Support and guide junior and mid-level designers in day-to-day delivery by helping clarify problem

statements, prioritize work, and apply user-centered design practices, standards, and design

systems to drive high-quality outcomes.

· Support communication with partner teams by clarifying experience expectations, design

requirements, and delivery timelines, ensuring smooth coordination with product managers,

engineering teams, and stakeholders.



Requirements

Professional Experience and Relevant Skills

· 4 - 7 years of hands-on experience delivering end-to-end user experience design work or design

packages, including ownership of research, interaction and visual design, prototyping, validation,

and developer handoff for complex digital products or platforms.

· Strong ability to translate business objectives, user needs, and technical constraints into scalable

experience designs and actionable design solutions, delivering high-quality, production-ready

design outputs with minimal oversight.

· Deep understanding of design readiness criteria and quality gates, including usability principles,

accessibility standards, consistency with design systems, validation through research or testing,

and evidence required for design solutions to move through review, development, handoff, and

release.

· Skilled in working with cross-functional partner teams (Product Management, Engineering, QA,

Research, Architecture) to clarify requirements, define acceptance criteria, resolve feasibility or

implementation questions, and ensure smooth hand-offs across the product delivery lifecycle.

· Ability to identify and recommend incremental improvements to design patterns, component usage,

documentation standards, tooling, or collaboration workflows that enhance experience quality,

consistency, and team delivery efficiency.

· Experience facilitating design discussions, critiques, or short working sessions to align priorities,

unblock design or experience issues, drive informed decision making, and maintain delivery

momentum.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications

· Minimum: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Design, Psychology or a related field.

· Preferred: Practitioner level certifications or formal training in user experience design or related disciplines (e.g., UX/UI design certifications, or Agile product design practices).



Skills Required

  • 4–7 years of hands-on experience delivering end-to-end user experience design work for complex digital products or platforms.
  • Experience owning research, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, validation, and developer handoff.
  • Ability to translate business objectives, user needs, and technical constraints into scalable, production-ready experience designs.
  • Deep understanding of usability principles, accessibility standards, design systems, research or testing validation, and design readiness criteria.
  • Experience working with Product Management, Engineering, QA, Research, and Architecture teams across the product delivery lifecycle.
  • Ability to identify and recommend improvements to design patterns, component usage, documentation, tooling, and collaboration workflows.
  • Experience facilitating design discussions, critiques, or working sessions.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Design, Psychology, or a related field.
  • Practitioner-level UX/UI design certifications or formal training in user experience design or Agile product design practices.
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The Company
12,060 Employees
Year Founded: 1986

What We Do

Staples India is Staples’ technology and innovation hub in Chennai, building platforms, systems, and digital solutions that support the company’s global operations and future of work. Staples serves consumers and businesses with workplace products and services, including office supplies, janitorial products, technology, furniture, breakroom essentials, print and marketing, shipping, travel, and promotional offerings. Its India teams focus on engineering, eCommerce, process optimization, and enterprise solutions.

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