Job description
About The Role:
As a UX Designer with a focus on growth & innovation, you will...
- Be driven by curiosity and a desire to connect design work with user insights to image future experiences.
- Work closely with a cross-functional team composed of designers, product managers, and engineers focused on growth and expansion.
- Be keenly aware of the industry landscape including user, market and technology research to ground solutions in true needs and opportunities.
- Participate in identifying potential solutions spaces that translate business goals into forward-thinking experiences that inform the product roadmap.
- Collaborate on the exploration of product concepts that push the status quo for the identified growth spaces.
- Be responsible for landing on thoughtfully crafted solutions that have a purpose for being.
- Play an active role in the development of the product and service solution across the various phases of the multi-disciplinary process.
A UX Designer with a focus on growth & innovation, is...
- An avid problem solver taking on big and small challenges with the same grace.
- Comfortable in ambiguous territory where design hasn’t historically been.
- Passionate about human-centered design and able to defend the user point of view.
- A Cross- Functional collaborator who can easily work with and facilitate conversations.
- Quick to fail by building concepts and testing them along the way.
- A master of crafting beautiful details, while keeping the bigger picture in mind, and vice versa
- An active participant in all phases of the design thinking process from conceptual, to strategic, to tactical, to implementation
Key Qualifications:
For consideration, you must bring the following minimum skills and behaviors to our team:
- Strong portfolio of cutting edge design that proves not only solid design skills but forward thinking
- Passionate design thinker and craftsperson
- Well-versed in user-centered design methods and techniques in a multidisciplinary design environment - not waterfall.
- Understand latest development tools, technologies and processes and how to best use them depending on project needs.
These include:
- Fluency in the Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Figma.
- Proficient skills in concept generation, visualization, and rapid prototyping
- Highly driven and proactive self-starter - taking on a task without much context and driving it through
- Excellent communication skills
- Sharing your design thinking, presenting to all levels of co-workers throughout all stages of design
- Willingness to take direction and learn from others
- Optimistic outlook - we are creating the future after all
Education:
Requires a BS in User Experience Design/Human-Centered Design or a related degree from an accredited college or university or equivalent experience