Senior UX Motion Designer, Maps & Navigation

Duration: 6 months contract

Job Description:

• As a Senior UX Motion Designer for the Maps & Navigation domain, you will define, design, and deliver the animated, dynamic behaviours and micro-interactions that guide users through spatial, geographic and real-time navigation experiences. You will partner with product, UX, research, engineering and location-data teams to bring motion to life in a way that clarifies spatial context, enhances usability, builds visual delight, and supports the brand identity of the mapping/navigation solution.

Responsibilities:

Support Driving Navigation:

• Finalize production design and asset delivery to engineering.
• Maneuver Landmarks Styling: Complete and implement the final visual styling for landmarks in 2D, 2.5D, and 3D across all relevant configurations.

Walking Navigation:

• Core User Experience Design: Lead the design and polish of the core 3D walking navigation experience, leveraging hero use cases.
• Interdepartmental Collaboration: Work with product leads to identify design adaptations and data gaps needed for walking journeys.
• Visual Direction and Prototyping: Collaborate with the visual design team on concepts for leadership review and create coded prototypes to pressure-test design hypotheses with Engineering.

Project & Team Support:

• Support Design needs at scale helping designers across the team expand capacity in design and collaborative development.
• Provide continuity by actively participating in design critiques, planning sessions, and stakeholder meetings.
• Serve as a daily point of contact for cross-functional partners.
• Ensure quality control by conducting necessary design reviews and providing detailed feedback.

Experience:

• 6 years of motion design experience in product design or UX/UI animation.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link and/or access instructions).
• Senior-level UX execution with a proven track record of bringing products to launch.
• Deep understanding of cartographic, typographic, and complex design systems.
• Ability to drive design decisions and execute against them in close partnership with Product and Engineering leads.
• Some web-coding background, particularly in CSS, to facilitate work using internal coding systems.
• Exceptional communication skills to present and defend design rationale to stakeholders and leadership.
• Bonus: Experience designing for the map or driving/walking navigation systems is a significant advantage.

Skills:

• Motion Designing
• Maps/ Navigation
• Product Designing
• CSS

Education:

• Bachelor s degree.

About US Tech Solutions:

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