Associate Director, Product Design (UI)
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About the Role
Publicis Groupe is seeking an Associate Director, Product Design (UI) to lead and mentor a team of UI designers crafting interfaces for human-led AI products. The role champions visual design excellence, UI consistency, and inclusive design practices.
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Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a high performing team of UI designers dedicated to crafting visually compelling, pixel perfect interfaces for human led AI products.
- Champion visual design excellence, UI consistency, and inclusive design practices across all product development cycles.
- Translate complex business goals and user needs into cohesive visual design systems and actionable UI roadmaps.
- Facilitate strong cross functional partnerships with front end development, product management, and UX research teams.
- Foster a culture of continuous visual innovation, inclusion, and bold experimentation, while upholding rigorous UI quality standards.
- Work closely with client partners to ensure UI design initiatives align with their brand identity and business objectives.
- Elevate client experiences through exceptional visual design, setting the bar for interface quality and showcasing the agency's creative capabilities.
- Stay ahead of UI trends, emerging design patterns, and platform guidelines to inform solutions that benefit clients and fuel design R&D.
- Rapidly build and test high fidelity UI prototypes to drive client transformation and create reusable design components and pattern libraries.
- Apply UI performance metrics to deliver measurable outcomes and grow the agency's reputation for design excellence.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience (12+ years) in leading UI design teams and managing complex visual design projects, with a proven track record of delivering polished, high quality user interfaces.
- Proven ability to lead, inspire, and manage a team of UI designers, fostering a culture of craft excellence and visual consistency.
- Extensive experience in user interface design, with deep knowledge of visual design principles, typography, layout, color theory, iconography, and design systems.
- Experience designing intuitive and visually engaging interfaces for frontier technologies such as AI and agents, with a solid understanding of their unique UI challenges.
- Ability to define and articulate a compelling UI design vision that aligns with business goals and brand identity.
- Exceptional ability to partner effectively with front end development, product management, UX research, and brand teams to ensure pixel perfect implementation.
- Commitment to the highest standards of visual accessibility, inclusive design, and adherence to WCAG guidelines.
- 5+ years in a leadership role within UI design, including team management, mentorship, and career development (preferred).
- Experience working in agile, cross functional teams alongside developers, product managers, and UX researchers (preferred).
- Familiarity with the latest UI design platforms (e.g., Figma, Sketch), design systems, plugin ecosystems, and emerging agentic design tools (preferred).
- Experience leading UI teams through organizational or technological change, including design system migrations or new tooling adoption (preferred).
- Experience designing UI for global or multilingual products, with a strong understanding of localization, accessibility, and responsive design (preferred).
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Role Overview
- As an Associate Director, Product Design (UI), you will lead and mentor a high performing team of UI designers dedicated to crafting visually compelling, pixel perfect interfaces for human led AI products.
- You will champion visual design excellence, UI consistency, and inclusive design practices across all product development cycles — ensuring every interface is polished, accessible, and delightful.
- Your role is to balance creative craft with practical execution — translating complex business goals and user needs into cohesive visual design systems and actionable UI roadmaps.
- You'll foster a culture of continuous visual innovation, inclusion, and bold experimentation, while upholding rigorous UI quality standards in a dynamic, fast paced environment.
- Additionally, you will work closely with client partners to ensure UI design initiatives align with their brand identity and business objectives.
Focus Areas
- Lead UI Design Direction: Elevate client experiences through exceptional visual design, setting the bar for interface quality and showcasing Nurun's creative capabilities.
- Integrate Visual Trends & Research: Stay ahead of UI trends, emerging design patterns, and platform guidelines to inform solutions that benefit clients and fuel Nurun's design R&D and reusable assets.
- Facilitate Cross Functional Teamwork: Align UI design, front end development, and product functions to ensure scalable, consistent visual impact across clients and Nurun's offerings.
- Prototype & Validate Visually: Rapidly build and test high fidelity UI prototypes to drive client transformation and create reusable design components and pattern libraries.
- Iterate with Data: Apply UI performance metrics (e.g., interaction rates, visual accessibility scores, design consistency audits) to deliver measurable outcomes and grow Nurun's reputation for design excellence.
Qualifications
- Experience: Demonstrated experience (12+ years) in leading UI design teams and managing complex visual design projects, with a proven track record of delivering polished, high quality user interfaces.
- Design Leadership: Proven ability to lead, inspire, and manage a team of UI designers, fostering a culture of craft excellence and visual consistency.
- UI Expertise: Extensive experience in user interface design, with deep knowledge of visual design principles, typography, layout, color theory, iconography, and design systems.
- AI Driven UI Experience: Experience designing intuitive and visually engaging interfaces for frontier technologies such as AI and agents, with a solid understanding of their unique UI challenges (e.g., conversational interfaces, adaptive layouts, data visualization).
- Strategic Vision: Ability to define and articulate a compelling UI design vision that aligns with business goals and brand identity, translating objectives into tangible design standards, component libraries, and visual roadmaps.
- Cross Functional Collaboration: Exceptional ability to partner effectively with front end development, product management, UX research, and brand teams to ensure pixel perfect implementation.
- Usability & Accessibility: Commitment to the highest standards of visual accessibility, inclusive design, and adherence to WCAG guidelines to ensure interfaces are usable by all.
Preferred Qualifications
- Leadership Experience: 5+ years in a leadership role within UI design, including team management, mentorship, and career development.
- Agile: Experience working in agile, cross functional teams alongside developers, product managers, and UX researchers.
- Tools: Familiarity with the latest UI design platforms (e.g., Figma, Sketch), design systems, plugin ecosystems, and emerging agentic design tools.
- Change Management: Experience leading UI teams through organizational or technological change, including design system migrations or new tooling adoption.
- Global Products: Experience designing UI for global or multilingual products, with a strong understanding of localization, accessibility, and responsive design.
- Stakeholder Management: Strong skills in managing and aligning diverse stakeholder groups, translating business needs into clear, polished UI solutions.
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