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Lead Product Designer jobs with H-1B visa sponsorship require employers to file a Labor Condition Application and I-129 petition on your behalf. The role qualifies as a specialty occupation when it requires a bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction, or a directly related field. H-1B status is granted for up to three years, extendable to six.
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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 Product Designer
Align your portfolio to degree requirements
USCIS evaluates whether your role requires a specific bachelor's degree, not just design skills broadly. Structure your portfolio to show work that draws directly on your degree field, whether that's interaction design, HCI, or a related discipline, so your employer can make a clean specialty occupation argument.
Verify prevailing wage before accepting an offer
Your employer must certify your salary meets the DOL prevailing wage for Lead Product Designer roles in your specific metro area. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the Level III or IV wage for SOC code 27-1021 before negotiations, so you're not caught short at the LCA stage.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Find Lead Product Designer roles at employers who have already navigated H-1B sponsorship by searching Migrate Mate, which lists companies with verified H-1B LCA filing history by role and location. Prior filing experience means fewer delays and a smoother petition process for you.
Confirm each worksite gets its own LCA
If you'll work across multiple offices or client sites, each distinct worksite requires its own certified LCA from DOL before you begin work there. Raise this with your employer's immigration counsel early, especially if your Lead Product Designer role involves embedded work at client locations.
Use O*NET to anchor your specialty occupation case
The O*NET occupation profile for Art Directors and UX Designers documents the degree-level knowledge and analytical skills central to senior design roles. Share this with your employer's attorney as supporting evidence when drafting the I-129 petition's specialty occupation justification.
Account for cap timing when planning your start date
H-1B cap-subject petitions have an October 1 start date, and the cap selection rules have changed recently, so plan your job search timeline accordingly. If you're currently on OPT or another status, work backward from October 1 to identify when you need a signed offer to meet the USCIS filing window.
H-1B Visa Lead Product Designer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Lead Product Designer role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, when the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as interaction design, human-computer interaction, graphic design, or a closely aligned discipline. USCIS looks at both the job duties and the employer's stated degree requirement. Roles where any bachelor's degree is accepted, regardless of field, are more vulnerable to a Request for Evidence, so your employer's offer letter should specify the required field explicitly.
Which employers commonly sponsor H-1B visas for Lead Product Designer roles?
Technology companies, enterprise software firms, fintech companies, and large e-commerce platforms are among the most active H-1B sponsors for senior design roles, based on DOL LCA disclosure data. To find employers with verified filing history for Lead Product Designer positions specifically, browse Migrate Mate, which surfaces companies by role and location using that same DOL data.
How long does H-1B status last for a Lead Product Designer?
H-1B status is initially granted for up to three years and can be extended for an additional three years, giving you a six-year maximum. Extensions beyond six years are possible only if your employer has filed a PERM labor certification or an I-140 immigrant petition on your behalf and certain conditions are met. Extensions are employer-tied, so a job change requires a new petition.
What happens to my H-1B status if I change employers mid-employment?
H-1B portability allows you to begin working for a new employer once they file an H-1B transfer petition on your behalf, as long as your previous status was lawfully maintained. The new employer must file a new I-129 petition and a certified LCA for your role and worksite. You don't restart the six-year clock, but your new employer must sponsor the remaining authorized period.
Can a Lead Product Designer work remotely on an H-1B visa?
Remote work is permitted, but each location where you regularly perform work requires its own certified LCA posted at that worksite. If you work from home, your employer needs an LCA covering your home address. Frequent changes in work location, such as rotating between client sites, require proactive LCA management from your employer's immigration counsel to stay compliant with DOL requirements.