Senior UX Lead

KISKA

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In this role, you will design UX concepts and prototypes, conduct testing, mentor designers, and define interaction standards for complex digital products and smart ecosystems.

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Your role in the team

  • Lead UX direction from complex briefs and user needs through concepts, flows, prototypes, and delivery.
  • Guide and mentor UX designers, sharing your experience through hands-on feedback and thoughtful design critique.
  • Define scalable interaction principles and UX standards for connected platforms and smart ecosystems.
  • Act as a trusted UX partner to clients—shaping decisions, challenging assumptions, and building confidence with senior stakeholders.
  • Partner closely with Product Owners, Project Managers, researchers, developers, and designers to balance user value, business objectives, and technical feasibility.
  • Validate concepts through testing and insights, and guide iteration through implementation.
  • Ensure a consistent, compelling experience that reflects each client's brand across touchpoints.

Our expectations of you

Qualifications

  • Excellent UX fundamentals, interaction design skills, accessibility knowledge, and proficiency in Figma and prototyping.
  • A track record of leading UX work, mentoring designers, and making sound design decisions.
  • Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills; comfortable collaborating directly with senior clients.
  • Fluency in both English and German.

Experience

  • Extensive hands-on experience in UX, interaction, or digital product design, including responsibility for complex products or ecosystems.
  • Experience with connected products, smart home, HMI, or technical interfaces is a plus.

What we offer

  • KISKA is an equal opportunity employer.
  • We value talent, curiosity, and individuality regardless of background, identity, or experience.
  • We're building a culture where creative people can do their best work, together.
  • Join a team that thrives on creativity, collaboration, and the alpine playground right outside our studio doors.
  • With flexible schedules, competitive compensation, and a people-centered culture.
  • Come shape what's next.

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  • Location Salzburg
    5020 Salzburg, Austria

About your employer

KISKA

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KISKA is Europe's largest design agency with locations in Austria, Germany, the United States and China. More than 200 creatives from 30 countries develop solutions for problem solving issues for customers all over the world in the main office located in Salzburg.

Founding year
1990
Language
English
Company type
Established Company
Work model
Onsite
Industry
Advertising, Marketing, PR · Consumer Goods, Branded Goods · Consulting · Internet, IT, Telecommunication · Other Sectors · Science, Research

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Senior UX Lead

KISKA