Regional UX Lead, North America
Bayer
Summary
The Regional UX Lead partners with North American product, commercial, and test-and-learn teams to embed customer insight and user-centered design into regional initiatives. As a member of the enterprise UX Strategy team, this role represents North American customer and market needs in the development of UX strategy, experience principles, and scalable experience capabilities.
Job description
Your Tasks and Responsibilities
- Partner with North American product, commercial, and test-and-learn teams to identify customer needs, understand end-to-end workflows, and frame user-centered experience opportunities.
- Lead or support appropriate UX activities for regional initiatives, including discovery research, journey mapping, concept development, prototyping, usability testing, and evaluation of experience outcomes.
- Provide UX direction and recommendations that help teams create useful, usable, accessible, and trusted experiences.
- Identify UX capability and talent needs for NA initiatives; partner with the UX Professional Home to secure and develop required talent and provide ongoing coaching and feedback.
- Serve as the North American representative within the enterprise UX Strategy team, bringing regional customer, market, and operational insight into UX strategy, experience principles, and scalable capability development.
- Help translate enterprise UX strategy, standards, research assets, design-system patterns, and shared platform capabilities into practical guidance for North American teams.
- Identify regional insights, patterns, and emerging needs that should inform reusable enterprise UX recommendations, components, or product-platform capabilities.
- Distinguish between needs requiring intentional regional adaptation and those best addressed through shared enterprise experiences.
- Build productive working relationships and alignment across regional and enterprise product, UX, research, technology, commercial, and customer-facing teams.
- Share regional learning and UX recommendations clearly, ensuring that experiments and initiatives generate evidence that can be used beyond a single local implementation.
Who You Are
Required:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in UX, HCI, Interaction Design, Product Design, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in UX/UI design, product design, interaction design, or digital-product delivery.
- Portfolio or case studies demonstrating strong UX/UI craft and successful delivery of digital products or end-to-end experiences.
- Expertise in interaction design, information architecture, user flows, wireframing, prototyping, and visual interface design.
- Experience partnering with product management and engineering to design, launch, and improve digital products.
- Ability to translate product strategy, customer needs, and research insights into UX direction and high-quality interface solutions.
- Experience applying design systems, accessibility standards, and reusable interaction patterns.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence in a complex, matrixed organization.
Preferred:
- 10+ years of experience in UX/UI design, product design, interaction design, or digital-product delivery.
- Experience contributing to UX strategy or transformation.
- Experience working with test-and-learn and early stage innovation.
- Experience designing enterprise B2B software, digital platforms, or complex multi-product experiences.
- Experience in digital agriculture, life sciences, or another complex, regulated, or operationally intensive industry.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in UX, HCI, Interaction Design, Product Design, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in UX/UI design, product design, interaction design, or digital-product delivery.
- Portfolio or case studies demonstrating strong UX/UI craft and successful delivery of digital products or end-to-end experiences.
- Expertise in interaction design, information architecture, user flows, wireframing, prototyping, and visual interface design.
- Experience partnering with product management and engineering to design, launch, and improve digital products.
- Ability to translate product strategy, customer needs, and research insights into UX direction and high-quality interface solutions.
- Experience applying design systems, accessibility standards, and reusable interaction patterns.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence in a complex, matrixed organization.
Benefits
- Health care
- Vision
- Dental
- Retirement
- Paid time off
- Sick leave
Company overview
Bayer AG is a global life science company with core competencies in healthcare and agriculture, operating as one of the world's leading pharmaceutical corporations. Founded in 1863 and headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany, Bayer operates through three primary divisions: Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Health, and Crop Science. The company's pharmaceutical segment focuses on prescription products for cardiology, women's healthcare, oncology, hematology, and ophthalmology, with blockbuster drugs including Xarelto, Eylea, and Nubeqa. Bayer's Consumer Health division markets well-known over-the-counter brands such as Aspirin, Aleve, Claritin, and Bepanthen. The Crop Science division, strengthened by the acquisition of Monsanto, provides seeds, crop protection products, and digital farming solutions. With approximately 92,815 employees worldwide and operations in 80 countries, Bayer is committed to its mission of "Health for all, Hunger for none," driving innovation in medical treatments, agricultural productivity, and sustainable development. The company maintains a strong research and development pipeline, investing heavily in areas like precision medicine, artificial intelligence applications in healthcare, and sustainable agricultural technologies.