Senior UX Designer (San Francisco)

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. We are looking for someone who has the ability to prioritize the backlog, schedule, and technical constraints while meeting business requirements and usability goals.

Responsibilities :

• The Senior UX Designer will support all aspects of design and production, focusing specifically on UI engineering.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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 .
• Component-driven design and supporting enterprise design systems .
• Expertise in Section 508 and WCAG ,UX certification desirable.