Head of UX - Wix OS

Company Description

Wix makes it possible for anyone to succeed online. Since 2006, we’ve grown to around 5,300 employees in 22 countries, launched over 40 products, and serve over 282 million users and their visitors worldwide. At Wix, we push you to innovate, evolve in non-traditional ways, and collaborate. We operate in small teams that work closely together at a high level.

Although we’re already industry leaders in web creation and business, our work is nowhere near done. Our goal is to become the main engine of the Internet so we can create a more open web for all.

Job Description

As the Head of UX, you’ll lead a team of talented UX/UI designers and play a key role in shaping the future of Wix products and user experience. This role requires a strategic leader who can bring clarity to complex challenges, navigate technical platforms and business-centric products, and build strong teams and scalable systems. In your day-to-day, you will:

• Collaborate cross-functionally to enable teams and align UX strategies with business goals
• Provide strategic design direction, ensuring alignment with user needs and company objectives
• Help evolve our design systems and platform-wide UX infrastructure for scale and consistency
• Provide hands-on guidance through design reviews, critiques, and feedback that raise the quality bar
• Coordinate project prioritization and planning to deliver impactful results
• Mentor and grow the UX team, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence
  
  

Qualifications

• 5+ years managing product design teams
• Mastery of UX and UI design principles and practices
• Proven experience in research and data-driven design
• Strong technical understanding and familiarity with AI-driven UX workflows
• Exceptional leadership and team development skills
• Skilled communicator with the ability to align stakeholders, manage complexity, and resolve cross-functional challenges
• Experience with large-scale platforms and design systems – an advantage
  
  

Additional Information

We are Wix’s Operating System (OS) team. Wix OS includes 3 subdomains:

Wix Business Manager – A unified workspace where business owners can manage every aspect of their online presence and operations.

Wix Developer Center – A development hub that empowers external developers to build and publish apps for the Wix ecosystem.

Wix App Market – A curated marketplace offering over 1,000 apps and services that help users grow and manage their businesses, with more than 20,000 installations happening every day.

We achieve this by creating a robust, open platform infrastructure for Wix, third-party developers, and power users to easily create extensible, high-quality management tools that are integrated within the Wix ecosystem.