Senior UX Designer

Title: Senior UX Designer

Duration: Long Term

Location: 100% Remote

About the Opportunity: You are highly skilled, motivated, and passionate about research, UX and visual design. You embrace collaboration while maintaining an entrepreneurial spirit, and you respect and value your project partners. In this role,you will be working alongside a diverse, cross-functional team in an agile environment. You have impressive communication and presentation abilities, enabling you to cultivate team unity, promote alignment, and skillfully conduct discussions with users and partners. You bring a blend of creativity, problem-solving skills, and user-centered design thinking to the team. You are excited about the opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects and make a significant impact in a fast-pacing environment.

Job Duties:

Design & Implementation (70%):

• Partner with the design lead to analyze business and technical requirements
• Collaborate closely with the lead designer to swiftly implement the UX vision, creating designs that align consistently with our established design and style guidelines.
• Develop wireframes, interactive prototypes, comps, specifications, and other design documents to communicate design ideas to project teams
• Partner with the Accessibility team to ensure designs are compliant
• Support the technology team with style guides, creative assets, and design solutions.
• Conduct handoffs to developers through tools like Sketch, Figma, Abstract, and Zeplin

Strategy & Communication (20%):

• Contribute to the overall design and UX strategy for our product designs, including feeding into and refining a design system to facilitate a unified experience across all our products
• Collaborate and take direction from multiple stakeholders and disciplines to achieve an impactful experience
• Participate and be vocal in agile ceremonies to ensure design needs are met
• Nurture a culture of user empathy and deep curiosity that enables us to build simple, intuitive products for our customers
• Advocate for consistent design processes, methods, core systems, and patterns

Project Management (10%):

• Self-manage workload and obtain necessary requirements and acceptance criteria needed to complete work
• Coordinate with UX Lead, product leads, design team, and engineers to ensure timely delivery of design artifacts
• Help foster an environment for collaboration by partnering with business and other creative units to align our visual design approach with project goals.

Required Skills:

• As a UX designer, you are independent in your support of a cross-functional team
• A portfolio of your work included in your application
• A Bachelor s degree in a related field (computer science, interaction design, HCI, industrial design, information science, social sciences, graphic design, etc.) and/or equivalent years of work experience
• 3+ years of professional experience of relevant Design experience
• Documented experience in designing for large content rich websites, and applications, proven solutions that met users needs
• Extensive experience in information design and user scenarios
• Broad knowledge of digital interaction design patterns, Web site architecture, user interfaces, and navigation on various platforms (Web, mobile, tablet)
• Familiarity with user-centered research, such as usability testing, contextual inquiry, and field interviews
• Understanding the physical, cognitive, cultural, and social factors that affect design decisions
• Familiarity with front-end coding technologies and data modeling is a big plus
• Strong communicator with an ability to demonstrate both leadership and understanding with respect to project partners; Self-managing, but also used to working within a team
• Highly adaptable to new information, situations, or challenges and can work independently
• Like facing new challenges and thrive on opportunities to think creatively and come up with fresh approaches to tough business and operational problems
• Possess a Product Design mindset, who owns the end-to-end design delivery: from strategy to comps