Senior UX Designer

Introduction:

The Senior UX Designer will partner with the business and engineering teams to prioritize UX activities throughout the software development lifecycle and deliver high-quality experiences. This role requires the ability to prioritize the backlog, schedule, and technical constraints while meeting business requirements and usability goals. The Senior UX Designer will support all aspects of design and production, focusing specifically on UI engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Acts as a user advocate and participates in UX discussions with business partners on topics including sentient design, interaction features, design systems, information architecture, and user research
• Delivers guidance on UI components, software accessibility concepts and constraints
• Assesses data from multiple sources, synthesizes it, and develops strategies for products
• Advocates for the end user by influencing decisions to ensure that product, engineering, and design decisions are aligned with user needs and expectations
• Collaborates with UX analysts, product/business stakeholders, and engineering teams to prioritize UX activities throughout the software development lifecycle and deliver high-quality experiences
• Assists IT engineers with understanding and incorporating technical, business, and user requirements into designs and applications
• Understands product, client goals, requirements, internal goals, usability, and technical constraints associated with budget and schedule
• Supports all aspects of design and production, focusing specifically on UX design and UI component delivery
• Creates innovative and appealing designs on a rapid and iterative basis, through sketches, storyboards, user task flows, wireframes, prototypes, and the production of final assets for specific features and assignments
• Facilitates stakeholders through the design process, gathering actionable feedback and iterating at the appropriate level of changes
• Provides UI engineering support to development teams in both Agile and waterfall methodologies for responsive interfaces on presentation layer
• Experienced in working with enterprise strategy groups, third parties, consultants, and/or vendors who provide guidance around industry standards, best practices and/or capabilities support

Requirements:

Qualifications:

• Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Graphic Design, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, and/or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of relevant technical or business work experience
• Portfolio that demonstrates sentient design, component-driven design, modern design practices, complex UI patterns and application of UX metrics
• Advanced experience with Storybook, HTML/CSS/JS best practices and building accessible component libraries
• Intermediate design engineering experience with modern JavaScript and related technologies e.g., AI coding assistants, Angular, React, and GitLab
• Demonstrated success at creating reusable, accessible and modular designs that have a significant impact on product strategy and design
• 5+ years of experience with participating in user experience research using a variety of research methods
• 3+ years of prototyping experience and familiarity of designer tools such as Figma, and MURAL
• Proficiency with one or more usability testing tools or services
• Familiar with Agile concepts such as PI planning, retrospectives, sprints, SCRUM, Kanban, and so forth

Desired Skills:

• Expertise with component-driven design and supporting enterprise design systems
• Expertise in Section 508 and WCAG
• UX certification desirable
• Design thinking certification desirable