Key Responsibilities
We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate Senior UI/UX Designer to lead our design efforts on major programs. In this role, you will oversee and mentor a talented team of designers, driving the creation of user-centered interfaces that improve lives. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, guide projects from research through to high-fidelity prototyping, and ensure our designs meet the highest standards of usability and accessibility. If you thrive in a dynamic environment and have a deep understanding of both design principles and emerging technologies, we’d love to hear from you.
Responsibilities
- Lead UI/UX on major programs as a practitioner and provide oversight/direction to other designers on the program
- Mentor and lead junior and senior designers, guide projects, inspire through example, infuse design passion and help build a strong team
- Define and evolve UX design through development of personas, storyboards, process flows, information architecture diagrams, wireframes, and low/high fidelity prototypes
- Design with empathy for the end user, seeking to understand the full context of use and driving to define meaningful UX that improves people’s lives
- Work with and/or lead strategy and user research teams to plan and coordinate contextual research, support with necessary assets, interpret test results and incorporate into design activity
- Contribute IxD knowledge and experience to product development projects
- Lead client relationships and effectively represent Design in partner communications
- Give presentations and lead clients in key project milestones
- Execute work consistent with design and brand standards, analytics insight, and customer and user feedback
- Coach and mentor engineers other disciplines who work with your team to create user-centred experiences, including PMs, marketers, developers, and researchers
Qualifications
- 3+ years’ experience designing consumer products across multiple platforms including iOS, Android and Web.
- A strong portfolio on projects creating interfaces, large scale websites and applications.
- Expertise in UI/UX design and prototyping tools such as Adobe (XD, Photoshop, illustrator etc.) Figma, Sketch, InVision, Miro and the like are must.
- Familiarity with a variety of both qualitative and quantitative research methods, and know how to apply them in a design thinking-like process.
- Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.
- Up to date knowledge of design best practices and emerging technologies.
- Ability to work calmly and maintain good judgement in fast-paced, high-stress environments.
- A solid grasp of user-centred design & testing methodologies, subsystems, and usability & accessibility issues.
