Lead Product Designer

About this role

Lead Product Designer

Published

November 4, 2026

Location

New York, New York

Remote Work

• Yes

Description

Job Title: Lead Product Designer

Duration: 12 Months Contract

Location: New York, NY

NO C2C, ONLY W2 \\\Due to client requirements this role is only open to USC or GC candidates\\\

Job Summary:

Project Details:

As a contract Lead Product Designer, you'll set the design direction and quality bar for a cross-functional squad and its roadmap. As a senior individual contributor, you'll shape the experience for key areas, govern design quality, and deliver prototypes using agentic design tooling and Madi, NYL's Figma-based enterprise design system. Reporting to the Director of Product Design, you'll partner with Product, Engineering, and Implementation leaders in a Scaled Agile (SAFe) environment to influence the roadmap, align stakeholders, and mentor design peers. You’ll stay hands-on through build and QA so what ships matches what was designed, while making sure the NYL360 experience holds together across web and/or mobile and simplifies complex workflows for users.*What you’ll do*Experience strategy and design direction Influence the roadmap and drive delivery in SAFe Lead co-creation and mentor the team. Ship for outcomes, not output \\*Portfolio required: Please include a portfolio or case studies as a document or link with your resume when applying (including any passwords). Please do not use Dropbox or other file-sharing tools we cannot access.\\***

*Experience*

• 10+ years of digital product design experience, including leading design for a product, workstream, or portfolio, with a track record of shipping high-quality, production-ready work across product types (e.g., responsive web, apps, portals, workflow tools)
• Deep craft in high-fidelity UI, design systems, responsive and multi-breakpoint design, and detailed developer handoff, with the judgment to set standards others follow.
• Experience owning a live product after launch, iterating through a continuous roadmap and tying enhancements to measurable outcomes.
• Experience leading design in a Scaled Agile (SAFe) environment, shaping sprint and PI planning with Product, Engineering, and Implementation teams, and staying through QA.
• Experience presenting to and influencing senior and executive stakeholders, and clearly articulating and defending design decisions. Experience designing complex, structured systems such as dashboards, portals, data-heavy workflows, and form-based experiences.

Skills

• Strong command of interaction design, visual design, and UX writing collaboration, including content architecture across journeys.
• Fluent in AI-augmented design workflows (e.g., Figma AI, Claude Design, ChatGPT, NotebookLM) with measurable efficiency gains; able to review AI-generated outputs for quality and compliance and lead AI toolset adoption across the team.
• Expert in Figma (components, variables, auto layout, prototyping, and Dev Mode handoff), able to set standards and train others. Proficient with FigJam and Miro; comfortable with Adobe Creative Suite.
• Familiarity with technical architecture concepts (service-oriented architecture, micro-services, data models) and front-end basics (HTML, CSS).
• Strong understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA) and inclusive design, with the ability to define accessibility standards for a product portfolio.
• Executive-level communication skills; able to align cross-functional leaders and give engineers and designers clear, actionable direction.
• Meticulous attention to detail across states, edge cases, and content, with a pragmatic sense of what to ship now versus later.
• Comfortable using qualitative + quantitative inputs (e.g., usability testing, Qualtrics, Adobe Analytics/GA4) and OKR-based metrics to prioritize and iterate on live features.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Design, Interaction Design, Fine Arts, HCI) or equivalent practical experience.

About Matlen Silver

Experience Matters. Let your experience be driven by our experience. For more than 40 years, Matlen Silver has delivered solutions for complex talent and technology needs to Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders. Led by hard work, honesty, and a trusted team of experts, we can say that Matlen Silver technology has created a solutions experience and legacy of success that is the difference in the way the world works.

Matlen Silver is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, the presence of a non-job-related medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.

If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application or at any point in the hiring process, please contact us at email and/or phone at: [email removed] // [phone removed]

At The Matlen Silver Group, Inc., W2 employees are eligible for the following benefits:

• Health, vision, and dental insurance (single and family coverage)
• 401(k) plan (employee contributions only)