Experienced UX/UI Designer

The opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Innovation and Experience Designer to join our Studio+ GDS Poland team and lead digital product design across Customer Experience Strategy, UX, and UI –with particular ownership of design systems delivery and AI capability across our design pipeline. You will lead designers and engagements from discovery through delivery, mentor senior craft, and stay close enough to the work to still design on flagship engagements yourself.

This role sits at the intersection of craft leadership and design operations. You set the bar for design quality, design and govern the systems that hold that bar inside client engagements, and grow the team’s AI fluency so we deliver faster and better.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead designers across multiple engagements –mentoring, allocating talent, developing senior craft, and shaping team culture through coaching, feedback, and growth conversations.
• Stay hands-on as a player-coach: design directly on flagship engagements, set the visual and interaction standard through your own work, and use that proximity to coach the team.
• Architect and govern client design systems on engagements –foundations, component libraries, tokens, documentation, adoption strategy, and contribution models that survive after we leave.
• Build the team’s AI capability across the design pipeline: bring strong personal fluency with AI tools and translate it into shared workflows, and standards for the team.
• Lead end-to-end design delivery on flagship engagements: discovery, research, workshops, concept design, prototyping, testing, launch, and optimization –directing the work and contributing to it.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, product, BA, and delivery teams to ensure design systems are buildable, governance is realistic, and AI workflows translate into production value.
• Contribute to Studio+ practice growth –proposals, hiring, capability development, and shaping how we sell and deliver design systems and AI-enabled design work.

Skills and attributes for success

• Proficiency in design thinking, lean UX, and modern agile delivery; able to flex methodology to context.
• Commercial acumen, able to shape proposals, scope engagements, and translate design value into business outcomes.
  
  
• Open mind, comfort with ambiguity, and an appetite for continuous learning as the design and AI landscape evolves
• Ability to employ latest Agile & Lean UX methods and work with Business, Project & Development, BA teams to create and deliver Design, UI & UX offerings.
  
  
• Strong personal fluency with AI tools across the design pipeline, plus a track record of translating that fluency into team-level workflows and standards.
  
  
• Deep experience designing and governing design systems inside client engagements - multi-product, multi-brand, or complex platform contexts.
  
  
• Strong grasp of design operations: structure, roles, rituals, governance, and the mechanics that make design teams scale.
• Understanding the limitations of client/ internal tech stacks, ecosystems or business model and provide design advice where necessary.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Full working proficiency in English (oral and written).
  
  
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in UX/UI.
  
  
• Strong portfolio showcasing your UX/UI design work.
  
  
• Proven experience designing and governing design systems on client or in-house engagements.
  
  
• Demonstrable experience integrating AI tools into your own design workflow and into team practice.
• Strong portfolio showcasing UX/UI work, design systems, and leadership impact.
  
  
• Expert-level proficiency in Figma, including variables, libraries, and advanced component architecture.
  
  
• End-to-end experience designing mobile and web applications.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Industry experience in Health, Insurance, Public Sector, or Banking and Finance.
• Experience leading or contributing to a design ops function.
• Track record of introducing AI workflows or tooling into a design organization.
  
  
• Knowledge of user research, usability testing, analytics, and design metrics

What we look for

People with commercial acumen, design leadership instincts, and the curiosity to push how design, design systems, and AI work together – comfortable stepping out of their comfort zone, and building strong relationships with partners across cultures.

What we offer

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across nine locations – Argentina, Hungary, India, the Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

About EY

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