UX Lead
Long term Contract
Austin, TX
Responsibilities:
· Create world-class, user-centered designs incorporating customer needs, business requirements, technical feasibility and future trends.
· Contribute to the creative direction and work with design leadership to ensure a cohesive user-experience across the product portfolio.
· Develop conceptual diagrams, information architecture maps, wireframes, visual mockups, lightweight specifications, prototypes and demos.
· Participate in user research and product testing and use data for your decision making.
· Help lead product discovery activities and collaborate on future direction with peers, researchers, design leaders, product partners, engineers and executives.
· Communicate your design work effectively and get people excited about your ideas and solutions.
· Contribute to departmental planning and budgeting, helping shape and implement team priorities and support project deadlines.
· Speak passionately about User Centered Design and technology design and demonstrate thought leadership in the e-commerce space.
· Lead projects with a proactive stance toward achieving success and working with others to remove any barriers in your way.
· Cultivate the professional development of designers and help build out the design capabilities of the team.
Requirements:
· 10+ years experience in product design, 5+ years coaching product designers.
· Strong understanding of the user-centered design process.
· Experience in core design research, including competitive and landscape analysis, pattern research and crafting insights from observation.
· Specialist in designing across multiple devices from mobile, tablet, and desktop.
· Experience working with product managers and developers to deliver great experiences.
· Expert in design and prototyping tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe CS, Principle, Invision, etc.).
· Education/learning in Interaction Design or equivalent.
· Outstanding portfolio demonstrating a broad range of product design work across web-based applications, consumer experiences and mobile devices.