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Lead Designer roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring at least a bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction, or a related field. Many studios, tech companies, and agencies file LCAs for this title annually. Your portfolio, degree equivalency, and employer's prevailing wage compliance all factor into a clean filing.
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At Victoria’s Secret & Co, you’ll join a world-leading specialty retail brand recognized globally for innovation and excellence in lingerie and fashion. You’ll work alongside industry leaders to set the standard for what a retail brand can achieve, placing customers at the center of everything we do to create products and experiences that bring them joy.
We believe everyone deserves a place where they truly belong. We celebrate individuality and know that your passion, experience, and unique perspective strengthen our team and business. Here, you’ll be empowered to perform, grow, and engage through unmatched opportunities to develop your skills, gain real-world experience, and learn from the best in the business.
YOUR ROLE
We are seeking a highly experienced Lead UX Designer to join our team. In this role, you’ll guide the design of complicated and expansive user experiences for our digital products that need to be intuitive, accessible, engaging, and performant. You will collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, business partners, and other designers to solve complex problems and turn them into elegant, user-centered solutions. At this level, coordinating with teams of teams and driving alignment on complex experiences will be critical.
Through a variety of methodologies, we support product teams that build configurable features and capabilities to continually drive an enhanced end-user experience and greater business performance. We do this by:
- Understanding the motivations and needs of our millions of customers
- Collaborating with business and brand partners to create technology, capabilities, and processes that allow for efficient set-up, monitoring, and management of their digital experiences
- Advocating for the learnability, efficiency, memorability, and desirability of new or enhanced features and functionality across the breadth of the user journey
- Advocating for—and designing within—a systems-based methodology that allows for configurability, customization, and specialization of re-usable components that enables scalability and quality
- Incorporating an ever-expanding and maturing set of tools and processes powered by AI to help us more efficiently and effectively bring our ideas to life
YOUR IMPACT
- Lead and execute initiatives that can span across our entire shopping experience
- Support and evangelize our systems-based design system by being a key contributor to its content, structure, and processes
- Mentor and model best practices in design, our culture, and our rigor and craft
- Drive continuous product improvements by researching and rapidly designing iterative functional solutions to enhance the user experience leveraging our design principles, standards, and best practices
- Lead collaborative working sessions with cross-functional partners to identify and define what problems we are trying to solve and how best to solve them
- Use, contribute to, and advocate for a systems-based design methodology that is designed to support co-branded implementations of our solutions
- Support user research and testing by gathering assumptions and writing hypotheses, contributing to questions and scenarios for tests with the Research team, and observe sessions to help extract key learns for both your area of focus and the user journey at large
- Access, understand, and utilize site data and metrics to help validate the success of an implemented design and to inform new solutions
- Work side-by-side with developers to build and validate all visual/functional enhancements
- Present solutions to cross-functional and brand partners, clearly articulating the UX design principles and methodologies that informs the work
- Participate in roadmap development with your product team to ensure strategic direction is aligned to user needs and design best practices
- Give back to the design team by being engaged in critiques, sharing new learnings and case studies, and by challenging existing processes with new ways for the team to be more effective
Minimum Salary: $147,800.00
Maximum Salary: $201,495.00
VS&Co provides a range of compensation for this role as shown. Your actual salary will be determined by a number of factors, including: your specific skills and experience, geographic region, or other relevant factors.
Qualifications
YOUR EXPERIENCE
- Passionate advocate for the end user
- UI, visual design, and interaction design expertise
- Proven ability to translate complex design challenges into clear, user-friendly experiences
- Sophisticated sense of visual design/style
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Collaborative, positive, detail-oriented
- Previous e-commerce experience
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws. Please see links: California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Philadelphia Fair Chance Law, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance
An equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate in hiring or terms and conditions of employment because of an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status or any other protected category recognized by state, federal or local laws. We only hire individuals authorized for employment in the United States.
Why You Belong Here
At Victoria’s Secret & Co, you’ll join a world-leading specialty retail brand recognized globally for innovation and excellence in lingerie and fashion. You’ll work alongside industry leaders to set the standard for what a retail brand can achieve, placing customers at the center of everything we do to create products and experiences that bring them joy.
We believe everyone deserves a place where they truly belong. We celebrate individuality and know that your passion, experience, and unique perspective strengthen our team and business. Here, you’ll be empowered to perform, grow, and engage through unmatched opportunities to develop your skills, gain real-world experience, and learn from the best in the business.
YOUR ROLE
We are seeking a highly experienced Lead UX Designer to join our team. In this role, you’ll guide the design of complicated and expansive user experiences for our digital products that need to be intuitive, accessible, engaging, and performant. You will collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, business partners, and other designers to solve complex problems and turn them into elegant, user-centered solutions. At this level, coordinating with teams of teams and driving alignment on complex experiences will be critical.
Through a variety of methodologies, we support product teams that build configurable features and capabilities to continually drive an enhanced end-user experience and greater business performance. We do this by:
- Understanding the motivations and needs of our millions of customers
- Collaborating with business and brand partners to create technology, capabilities, and processes that allow for efficient set-up, monitoring, and management of their digital experiences
- Advocating for the learnability, efficiency, memorability, and desirability of new or enhanced features and functionality across the breadth of the user journey
- Advocating for—and designing within—a systems-based methodology that allows for configurability, customization, and specialization of re-usable components that enables scalability and quality
- Incorporating an ever-expanding and maturing set of tools and processes powered by AI to help us more efficiently and effectively bring our ideas to life
YOUR IMPACT
- Lead and execute initiatives that can span across our entire shopping experience
- Support and evangelize our systems-based design system by being a key contributor to its content, structure, and processes
- Mentor and model best practices in design, our culture, and our rigor and craft
- Drive continuous product improvements by researching and rapidly designing iterative functional solutions to enhance the user experience leveraging our design principles, standards, and best practices
- Lead collaborative working sessions with cross-functional partners to identify and define what problems we are trying to solve and how best to solve them
- Use, contribute to, and advocate for a systems-based design methodology that is designed to support co-branded implementations of our solutions
- Support user research and testing by gathering assumptions and writing hypotheses, contributing to questions and scenarios for tests with the Research team, and observe sessions to help extract key learns for both your area of focus and the user journey at large
- Access, understand, and utilize site data and metrics to help validate the success of an implemented design and to inform new solutions
- Work side-by-side with developers to build and validate all visual/functional enhancements
- Present solutions to cross-functional and brand partners, clearly articulating the UX design principles and methodologies that informs the work
- Participate in roadmap development with your product team to ensure strategic direction is aligned to user needs and design best practices
- Give back to the design team by being engaged in critiques, sharing new learnings and case studies, and by challenging existing processes with new ways for the team to be more effective
Minimum Salary: $147,800.00
Maximum Salary: $201,495.00
VS&Co provides a range of compensation for this role as shown. Your actual salary will be determined by a number of factors, including: your specific skills and experience, geographic region, or other relevant factors.
Qualifications
YOUR EXPERIENCE
- Passionate advocate for the end user
- UI, visual design, and interaction design expertise
- Proven ability to translate complex design challenges into clear, user-friendly experiences
- Sophisticated sense of visual design/style
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Collaborative, positive, detail-oriented
- Previous e-commerce experience
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws. Please see links: California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Philadelphia Fair Chance Law, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance
An equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate in hiring or terms and conditions of employment because of an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status or any other protected category recognized by state, federal or local laws. We only hire individuals authorized for employment in the United States.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Lead Designer
Verify your degree meets specialty occupation
H-1B eligibility for Lead Designer hinges on a directly related degree. If your background is in fine arts or a non-design field, prepare a credential evaluation that maps your coursework to the role's technical requirements before any employer files your petition.
Check LCA filings by design job code
Lead Designer typically maps to SOC code 27-1021 (Commercial and Industrial Designers) or 15-1255 (Web and Digital Interface Designers). Use the OFLC Wage Search to confirm which code your prospective employer used and whether the offered wage meets that code's prevailing wage level.
Target employers with active design LCA history
Search H-1B sponsors on Migrate Mate to find employers who have filed LCAs specifically for design roles. Companies with repeat filings in your SOC code are far more likely to have an established process and legal counsel already familiar with design specialty occupation arguments.
Build a portfolio that documents specialty occupation
USCIS adjudicators look for evidence the role requires specialized knowledge. Structure your portfolio to show advanced UX research methods, design systems architecture, or complex interaction problems, not just polished visuals. Framing the work around theoretical and applied design knowledge strengthens the specialty occupation case.
Clarify cap-exempt status during offer negotiations
If a prospective employer is a university, nonprofit research institution, or affiliated entity, your petition may be cap-exempt, bypassing the annual H-1B lottery entirely. Ask HR during the offer stage whether the organization qualifies, since cap-exempt filings can be submitted at any point in the year.
Understand the 60-day grace period between design roles
If your current H-1B employment ends before a new Lead Designer offer is filed, you have a 60-day grace period to secure a new sponsoring employer. Your new employer must file an H-1B transfer petition before that window closes for you to maintain lawful status without a gap.
H-1B Visa Lead Designer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Lead Designer role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, provided the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as graphic design, interaction design, or human-computer interaction. Generalist creative roles where any degree is acceptable can run into specialty occupation rejections, so the job description must specify the degree requirement explicitly. Your employer's petition should document why the role demands that specialized body of knowledge.
Which SOC code is typically used for Lead Designer H-1B petitions?
Most Lead Designer filings use SOC code 27-1021 for Commercial and Industrial Designers or 15-1255 for Web and Digital Interface Designers, depending on the role's primary focus. The SOC code determines the prevailing wage level your employer must certify on the LCA. You can verify both codes and their wage levels through the OFLC Wage Search before accepting an offer.
How do I find employers who regularly sponsor H-1B visas for design roles?
Migrate Mate lets you filter job listings by verified H-1B sponsorship history, including design-specific LCA filings. This is more reliable than inferring sponsorship willingness from job postings, since many companies sponsor H-1B visas but don't advertise it. Prioritizing employers with repeated filings in your SOC code significantly shortens the time from application to petition.
Can my employer file an H-1B transfer if I change Lead Designer roles mid-status?
Yes. Under H-1B portability rules, you can begin working for a new employer as soon as they file a non-frivolous H-1B transfer petition, as long as you've been in valid H-1B status for at least 180 days. The new employer must file a separate I-129 with a new LCA certified at the prevailing wage for the new role's location and SOC code.
What documentation should I prepare for an H-1B Lead Designer petition?
Your employer's attorney will typically need your degree transcripts, a credential evaluation if your degree is from outside the U.S., your portfolio or work samples that establish the specialized nature of the role, and an offer letter that specifies the design-related degree requirement. O*NET occupation data for your SOC code is often cited in the petition to support specialty occupation arguments.