Senior UX Designer

Summary:

We are looking for a Senior User Experience (UX) Designer with user insight, creativity, and design experience to join our Product Design team. If you love designing a great user experience, then you would be a great fit for our team.

Role:

You will work with one or more cross-functional product teams, business stakeholders, end-users, and fellow UX practitioners to identify key problems and opportunities. You will use human-centered and data-driven principles, while employing your keen ability to empathize, to conceptualize and validate solutions that deliver the most usable, viable, feasible, and delightful solutions aligned with business goals. Activities include: 

• collaborating with stakeholders to discover, elicit, and analyze problems and requirements;
• task and workflow analysis, flow/process diagramming, journey mapping;
• formative concept design, wireframes;
• multi-fidelity prototyping, usability testing and validation, evidence-driven iteration;
• user-interface and interaction design, specification;
• implementation support.

You will work with the above-mentioned collaborators on one or more products. You will be responsible for ensuring organizational UX Standards are implemented for both usability and experiential consistency.

Requirements:

• 10+ years’ experience with:
  • Human-Centered Design in an agile software development environment;
  • Creating and executing usability testing;
  • Designing usable interfaces with complex, multi-step interactions and/or complex information visualizations.
• Bachelor’s degree in Human-Centered Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Information Science or relative experience
• Demonstrable experience in/with:
  • Designing responsive web applications or mobile applications.
    • Experienced in approach design problems with a “mobile first” mentality.
  • Web accessibility and assistive technologies (screen readers, etc.).
  • Tools such as Axure, Invision, Sketch, MIRO, Adobe CS, or similar.
• Expert in translating design specs to technical teams. 
• Ability to work with both collocated and remote collaborators.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Good Understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript is highly desired.
• Ability to balance multiple priorities, potentially across different products, maintaining acute attention to details.
• Ability to present design and work samples of completed projects.
• Experience using UX Design best practices to provide valid solutions. 
• Capacity to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
• Work effectively in a team environment, and comfortable with receiving feedback and constructive criticism.

About You

• You have the courage to ask questions, take risks, and champion new ideas.
• You are collaborative and professional with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• You are comfortable working with a diverse range of stakeholders, including executives, and can speak the language of business as well as technology, always ready to represent the collective needs of our users.
• You effectively communicate your findings through thorough, thoughtful, and empathetic analysis.
• You are comfortable with a formative design process and actively work with product teams and fellow UX practitioners to iterate on design concepts and deliver the most valuable solutions.
• You are comfortable providing support to product teams in an agile software development environment, with both collocated and remote colleagues.