Our client, a major oil and gas organization's Upstream division, is seeking a highly experienced and strategic Senior UX Designer to join their innovative UX design team. This role is pivotal in defining and driving research-based solutions to tackle the most complex technical challenges inherent in the Oil & Gas industry.

You will act as a design leader, working closely with cross-functional leadership, including principal engineers and senior project managers, to create elegant, scalable, and effective user interfaces that simplify highly complex tools and processes.

As a member of this highly collaborative team, you'll be responsible for the strategic direction of design solutions that significantly enhance enterprise-level productivity and help shape critical energy-related decisions globally. This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your deep industry experience while mentoring others and making a global, strategic impact.

What You'll Be Doing: Top 5 Responsibilities

• Design Strategic Solutions: Your primary role is to define and lead the design of interfaces and processes that optimize user productivity across the enterprise, ensuring solutions are scalable and address complex systems-level challenges.
• Integrate & Drive Research Strategy: Take ownership of integrating and translating insights from UX research into actionable design strategies, ensuring the final product is user-centered, evidence-based, and strategically sound.
• Create & Govern Design Artifacts: Produce and guide the development of high-fidelity design artifacts (wireframes, prototypes, and design systems), ensuring design consistency and clarity across multiple product lines.
• Lead Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as a senior design liaison, collaborating effectively with executive stakeholders, development leadership, and peer designers, and influencing long-term product roadmaps.
• Champion Design Excellence: Beyond execution, you will actively educate, mentor, and advocate for the adoption of sound design principles and best practices across the organization.

What You'll Bring: Required Skills & Experience

🛠️ Technical Expertise (10+ Years Experience Required)

• UX Design Mastery: 10+ years of professional experience in designing complex user interfaces for enterprise-level web apps and desktop applications, with a proven history of solving highly technical, domain-specific problems.
• Prototyping & System Design: Expert proficiency in design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch) and significant experience building, maintaining, and governing Design Systems.
• Agile Leadership: Extensive experience and leadership working within Agile or Lean software development teams, comfortable setting design direction in fast-paced, iterative environments.
• Complex Systems Design: Deep, demonstrated experience designing for expert systems, real-time data visualization, or control systems within high-stakes, technical domains (e.g., energy, finance, aerospace).
• Collaboration & Tooling: Expert command of collaboration and project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Miro) to manage and communicate design scope and priorities effectively.

👥 Soft Skills & Mindset

• Collaboration and Team Leadership: Proven ability to lead and mentor design team members, driving consensus, and fostering productive collaboration across diverse, senior-level teams.
• Strategic Influence: Exceptional ability to communicate, present, and influence senior stakeholders and engineering leadership on the value and direction of UX strategy.
• Flexibility and Adaptability: Experience managing multiple complex projects and adapting design strategy in response to evolving business priorities and technical constraints.
• Industry & Technical Curiosity: A deep passion for continuous learning and an ability to quickly immerse in highly technical, domain-specific knowledge to drive innovation.
• Visionary Problem-Solving: The critical ability to anticipate future user needs and define creative, user-centered solutions that address systemic, enterprise-level technical challenges.

Candidate Profile & Details

• Experience Level: Senior-level with 10+ years of professional UX design experience, specifically in designing and leading strategy for complex, expert-driven products.
• Educational Background: Required: Bachelor's degree in Design, Human Factors, HCI, Information Science, or a similar field. Preferred: A Master’s or advanced degree is highly beneficial.
• Industry Background (Highly Preferred): Deep experience in designing for technical, expert systems or real-time data systems in complex technical domains (e.g., energy, software, specialized industries).
• Team Environment: You will be a key contributor and leader in a highly collaborative team of designers, researchers, scientists, and engineers dedicated to improving tools and processes that support multi-million-dollar decisions.