Lead UX_UI Designer

Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers. With over 1.5 million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics, and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world.
Job Summary:
Working closely with product and development parters, you will lead design vision and coordinate work to support customer centric design excellence across eCommerce product teams.
What You Will Do:

• Influence product and business strategy through strong stakeholder partnerships at leadership levels, shaping priorities, roadmaps, and investment decisions.
• Lead design workshops and vision work for cross-functional teams. Bringing together business goals, product requirements, industry leading design standards, user research and insights.
• Serve as a design authority within the pod structure, guiding decisions, resolving tradeoffs, and ensuring high-quality experience outcomes in complex cross-functional environments.
• Participate in UX design intake and work distribution among designers inclusive of assessing scope, complexity, and required design investment and considering capacity, skillset and domain alignment
• Contribute to journey mapping, component library governance and other foundational experience artifacts.
• Run design reviews and critiques to evolve and validate that proposed design solutions align with vision, requirements, existing architecture and established design systems.
• Develop designer capability through coaching, modeling, and feedback, increasing the maturity, autonomy, and strategic impact of pod designers.
• Coordinate across designers to anticipate and identify impacts from upcoming releases or parallel workstreams.
• Track QA builds to identify and flag fidelity risks early, partnering with engineering to resolve issues.
• Synthesize signals across research, delivery, feedback, and performance metrics to identify emerging risks, opportunities, and strategic shifts.
• Contribute to the evolution of UX operating models, systems, and practices that enable scalable, high-quality design delivery.

What You Will Have:
Creativity

• Knowledge of creative approaches and techniques for designing innovative eComm experiences.

Level - Extensive Experience:

• Maintains balance between innovation and practicality.
• Challenges conventional design approaches and explores new possibilities.
• Monitors emerging eComm UX/UI trends and evaluates their applicability.
• Encourages and rewards imaginative ideas; supports experimentation.
• Finds new ways to approach complex design problems.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking

• Ability to analyze user needs and make informed design decisions for eComm experiences.

Level - Extensive Experience:

• Differentiates assumptions and validates design decisions objectively.
• Evaluates past design outcomes for continuous improvement.
• Predicts potential impact of design options across eComm digital channels.
• Advises others on synthesizing data and assessing alternatives.
• Applies effective decision-making approaches for collaborative design.

Human-Centered Design (HCD)

• Ability to design eCommerce experiences that meet real user needs and deliver business outcomes.

Level - Extensive Experience:

• Defines objectives and scope
• Leads agile processes to asses end-user feedback and validate designs.
• Directs pilot testing and iterates prototypes based on evaluation results.
• Consults on complex scenarios and optimizes organizational strategies.

UX/UI Design

• Ability to design intuitive, effective eCommerce experiences.

Level - Extensive Experience:

• Advises on mental models and competitive approaches.
• Coaches others on evaluating design effectiveness and contextual analysis.
• Develops prototypes, user journeys, and design deliverables.
• Delivers high-quality UI design solutions, balancing visual and functional excellence

What You Will Get:
Working with a Fortune 100 leader, you can build your career on a global scale and take advantage of development opportunities with emerging technologies. We've created an inclusive environment for you to explore your passions, make an impact and do the work that really matters. Join Us.
About Caterpillar
Caterpillar Inc. is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we've been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed to and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.
This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of "essential job functions" as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Summary Pay Range:
$128,470.00 - $208,770.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
Benefits:
Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
• 401(k) savings plans*
• Health Savings Account (HSA)*
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
• Health Lifestyle Programs*
• Employee Assistance Program*
• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
• Career Development*
• Incentive bonus*
• Disability benefits
• Life Insurance
• Parental leave
• Adoption benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.
Posting Dates:
January 29, 2026 - February 6, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
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