Responsibilities:
- Facilitate product design by researching, conceiving, wire-framing, sketching, prototyping, and mocking up user experiences for our platform.
- Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to existing and new functions and features based on hands-on user research, or by designing options for an A/B test.
- Work closely with product managers to understand requirements and develop high-level and detailed storyboards, mockups and prototypes, to effectively communicate interaction, design, product and user goals.
- Translate concepts into wireframes and high-quality design deliverables to be used by the engineering team to build products.
- Work closely with developers to address design implementation challenges.
- Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions with a user-centered design approach
- Rapidly test and iterate your designs.
- Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
- Take smart risks and champion new ideas that lead to intuitive user experiences.
- Act as a UX mentor and guide to our current and future UX designers.
- Document findings, improvements and processes, as needed.
Requirements:
- Overall 6+ years of relevant experience working as a UX designer, and 5+ years in B2B SaaS products/platforms, complex enterprise platforms.
- Proficient in interaction design, user testing, and user research techniques – using research and data to drive high-value product decisions.
- With a strong attention to detail, you are data driven and use quantitative as well as qualitative data sources to inform your design decisions.
- Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with product managers and engineers.
- Clear communication skills and an ability to tell compelling stories and articulate the rationale behind your design decisions.
- Strong sketching skills and can move seamlessly from low-fidelity whiteboard scribbles and paper sketches to high-fidelity mockups and prototypes.
- Intimately familiar with the latest user-centered design trends and methodologies, setting up and working with design systems.
- An expert with Figma and/or Sketch and Sketch-related tools (Abstract, Zeplin, InVision), Photoshop, Illustrator, and various other tools.
- Planning and integrating concepts into a broad range of visual planning/ presentational/ business tools – Miro, Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, etc.
- Experience with UX project planning tools such as Jira, Trello, Monday.
- Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery and other front-end markup languages
- A diverse digital portfolio that shows just how good you are with interaction design, user experience, typography, colors, layouts and images.
- Design Degree (Visual communication, Graphic Design, Interaction Design or Human Computer Interaction or Anthropology) or equivalent experience/strong portfolio.
Additional Awesomeness:
- Experience working with multiple design and/or development teams in different time zones
- UI experience in building, uplifting and/or maintaining a design library of components, demonstrating a strong understanding of patterns and pixel-perfect consistency.