Senior UX Designer

Project Desciption

As a Senior UX Designer, you will have a chance to shape not only our product but also our design process and culture.

• Utilize design thinking methodologies from empathy to rapid prototyping to arrive at creative, intuitive end-to-end experiences
• Leverage and/or conduct user research to inform design decisions and evaluate your designs
• Clearly and effectively communicate ideas, research findings, sketches, and other deliverables to the business and leadership
• Design and deliver user stories, user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and UI specifications in an agile and collaborative environment.
• Move between making strategic and tactical design decisions regularly to devise elegant solutions within a complex business domain
• Communicate a strong point of view–informed by customer insights, design principles, and industry trends–yet hold it only loosely.

• Establish and manage relationships with key stakeholders including product managers, marketing, and engineering teams to align with and achieve business objectives
• Give and solicit feedback from other designers in order to continually raise the bar for design quality and collaborate across the Design team to ensure consistency and transparency
• Create the interfaces that some of the world’s largest brands depend on – Adobe, Invision, Capital One, Citrix, Accenture… ~50% of fortune 500  companies use our technology to build their own. 

What The Role Requires

• 6+ years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, product designer, or similar, leading and delivering comprehensive and elegant end-to-end solutions within a complex business environment.
  • Ideally, experience designing applications for enterprise customers
• Proven ability to collaborate with other designers, developers, and other stakeholders to transform complex technical problems into beautiful, simple user experiences.

• Hands-on experience with user research methodologies and usability testing

• Self-motivated and able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.  
• Fully proficient in English written and spoken language
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to articulate UX decisions and Problem statements to stakeholders, customers, and other team members.
  • Experience presenting to senior stakeholders within an organization (provide examples)
• Advanced proficiency in design and prototyping tools such as Sketch, InVision, etc (understanding of sketch libraries required)
• An online portfolio that demonstrates expertise in web application design, modern design aesthetic, attention to detail, and creative thinking.
  • You can show examples that explore the development of a solution at different stages in the creative process (e.g. discovery, storyboards, flow diagrams, wireframes, layouts, validation, etc.)
• Basic understanding of html + css
• Experience with project tracking tools such as Jira
• Bonus:
  • Ability to work effectively in a remote environment, across time-zones. 
  • Experience/knowledge of CI & CD tools such as Jenkins, CodeShip, Circle, Travis, or GitLab.
  • Experience with development tools such as Git, GitHub, and features like branching, forking, reverting, PRs, etc.
  • Proficiency with HTML, CSS, SASS
  • Understanding of JavaScript, and frameworks like jQuery, React, & Vue.
  • Understanding of the software development workflows