Posted on: 08/10/2022
Job ID: YATS082022SFDCJP00019280
Job Description:
You will create new design patterns and paradigms and collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to bring your visions to life. This is an opportunity to shape the user experience in ways that solve meaningful problems, design with a focus on inclusivity and accessibility, and make life better for users.
You’ll work closely with product management, engineering, and content strategists to deliver best-in-class content experiences that are rooted in a solid understanding of user needs. You’ll immerse yourself in all aspects of end-to-end experience design, including using storyboards, journey maps, flow diagrams, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups to communicate design ideas and direction.
Responsibilities:
- Using documentation, reviews, and presentations, communicate clear and compelling ideas to a wide range of key stakeholders
- Serve as a bridge connecting design, product, and engineering teams
- Work closely with product owners, engineers, and content strategists to create a vision for the product area
- Create and enhance responsive website experiences and web applications that adhere to and extend the existing design system
- Generate detailed final design specs that inspire accurate developer builds
- Work with developers and quality experts to deliver a polished final product
- Create inclusive designs for all users. Advocates for accessibility, encouraging product and engineering to prioritize accessible features and bug fixes
Required Skills:
- 5+ years of experience designing and delivering products from start to finish as part of a cross-functional team
- Deep understanding of user-centered design methods and best practices
- The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, agile environment while producing great design work on tight deadlines
- The ability to explore ideas, persuade others, and build consensus on fast-moving projects with varying degrees of ambiguity
- Self-motivation: ability to produce results both independently and as part of a team
- Strong communication and active listening skills, with an ability to build and develop close, trusting relationships
- Experience using multiple approaches, including analytics and user research, to drive decisions and develop product iterations
- Ability to distill and reframe problems, then define a framework for resolution, generating clear, elegant solutions for complex challenges
- Systems thinking; ability to step back and see a project’s larger ecosystem, with a focus on solutions that improve not just one feature but the entire user flow
- Demonstrated behaviors, attitudes, actions, and judgments that inspire employees to follow and other leaders to trust
- Expert knowledge of current design tools such as Figma, along with an ability to quickly learn new tools as they emerge
- Experience developing software that is global in reach, universal in design, and designed for users of multiple languages and abilities
- Experience designing and thinking in design systems, not just single-purpose solutions
- An internal compass that points toward ethics and equality, and the conviction to speak up when we veer off course
- BA/BS or MA/MS in a design-related field, or equivalent experience