Description
At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility.
As Bayer Crop Science’s digital farming arm, we advance regenerative agriculture and technology breakthroughs using the latest agronomic science, data science, engineering, and real-world farming experience. With industry-leading digital solutions and a strong commitment to customer outcomes, our team is part of some of the most important advancements in ag.
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.
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 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 the required talent and provide ongoing coaching and feedback to strengthen UX practice across regional products.
- 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.
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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 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.
Compensation: Employees can expect to be paid a salary of approximately $151k-226k. Additional compensation may include a bonus or incentive program (if relevant). Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.