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Lead UX Designer jobs at H-1B visa sponsoring employers require a bachelor's degree in a related field, qualifying the role as a specialty occupation. Employers file an LCA with DOL and an I-129 petition with USCIS. H-1B visa status is granted for up to three years, extendable to a six-year maximum.
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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 UX Designer
Frame your portfolio around measurable outcomes
USCIS adjudicators evaluate whether your role requires degree-level expertise. Present case studies that show research methodology, systems thinking, and cross-functional leadership, not just visual deliverables, to support the specialty occupation argument in your I-129.
Look up prevailing wage before negotiating
Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing wage for your SOC code and work location. Use the OFLC Wage Search to find the Level II and Level III thresholds for your specific city before any offer conversation.
Target companies with dedicated UX teams
Employers who embed UX within product or engineering organizations can most credibly document specialty occupation duties. Search Migrate Mate to find employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history for design and UX roles, searchable by city and job category.
Confirm each worksite before your start date
If your role involves work at a client site, coworking space, or secondary office, your employer must file a separate certified LCA for each location. Flag any planned worksite changes to HR before your first day to avoid compliance gaps.
Get your O*NET classification documented early
The O*NET profile for UX Designers sits in Job Zone 4, requiring substantial preparation and a related bachelor's degree. Ask your employer's immigration counsel to reference this classification explicitly in the I-129 support letter to preempt specialty occupation RFEs.
Understand the timeline between offer and filing
H-1B petitions for cap-subject positions require cap registration before a full petition can be filed. Confirm with your prospective employer whether they're filing cap-subject or cap-exempt, and ask for a written timeline before you resign from your current role.
H-1B Visa Lead UX Designer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Lead UX Designer role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes. Lead UX Designer roles typically qualify as a specialty occupation because they require at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as human-computer interaction, interaction design, cognitive psychology, or a closely related discipline. The 'lead' designation further reinforces degree-level complexity through strategic research, systems design, and cross-functional ownership. Employers document this in the I-129 support letter.
Which degree fields support an H-1B petition for a Lead UX Designer?
USCIS looks for a direct relationship between the degree and the job duties. Degrees in human-computer interaction, interaction design, cognitive science, information architecture, industrial design, or computer science with a UX concentration are the strongest fits. A general communications or fine arts degree may require additional documentation showing how the coursework directly applies to the role's specific duties.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor H-1B visas for UX roles?
Migrate Mate lists employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history, searchable by role type and city, so you can focus your applications on companies that have already committed to the sponsorship process for design and UX positions rather than approaching employers who may be unfamiliar with it.
What happens to my H-1B status if my Lead UX Designer role is restructured or eliminated?
H-1B status is tied to your approved petition and employer. If your role is eliminated, you enter a 60-day grace period to find a new sponsoring employer, change to another visa status, or depart the United States. A new employer must file a transfer petition before or concurrent with your start date to maintain lawful status without a gap.
Can my employer include both remote and in-office worksites on my H-1B petition?
Each worksite where you perform H-1B duties requires its own certified LCA filed with DOL. If your role involves regular work at a client location, a secondary office, or a different city than your primary office, your employer must obtain separate LCA certification for each location before you work there. A single LCA does not cover unspecified or rotating worksites.