Senior UX Designer

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Birmingham, AL

Publishing Industries

About the position

At Daxko, our product design team consists of UX generalists who lead the full spectrum of user research, interaction design, visual design, and usability testing. Your primary responsibility as a Senior UX Designer will be to craft user experiences that set our products apart from the competition. That includes truly understanding our customers' needs to deliver valuable solutions to market problems, as well as contributing to and maintaining our design system. This is a great opportunity for growth, experimentation, and the challenge to create something truly remarkable - all while having the support of an executive team that understands the importance of a Lean UX process. You will help shape the vision for groundbreaking applications that affect millions of people in their daily health and fitness routines.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, technical leads, developers, customers, and other stakeholders to understand, define, and clarify requirements.
• Proficiently utilize Figma for your design system, hi-fi designs, and prototypes, in a systematic way.
• Earn buy-in for ideas, designs, and best practices, as well as motivate and inspire stakeholders.
• Contribute to a design system in terms of shared documentation & componentry, influenced by a deep understanding of atomic design principles.
• Consistently assess and apply strong information architecture to every new design.
• Use research methods such as participatory design, ethnographic studies, and user interviews to learn how users think and behave.
• Create and validate personas to help your team make better decisions.
• Craft prototypes, with the capability to produce a high volume of concepts quickly, and iterate based on feedback.
• Work with developers and other designers to implement simple or complex solutions that are scalable and in line with our design system or shared patterns across products.
• Actively drive the process of identifying and validating problems worth solving, including building test plans, scripting interviews, writing surveys, etc.
• Validate designs with users through usability testing methods such as unmoderated testing, moderated testing, and A/B testing.
• Facilitate workshops to effectively identify/understand user needs with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Seek out and interpret data to inform design decisions.
• Apply lean UX best practices to your UX responsibilities.
• Be a tireless advocate for exceptional user experience.
• Help develop design patterns and apply them to your designs.

Requirements

• At least four (4) years of relevant UX design experience.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies-Scrum and Kanban in particular.
• Knowledge and practical experience with Lean UX methods and tools.
• Detail-oriented, manages time and objectives effectively.
• Excellent communicator in person, on the phone, and in email.
• Loves testing out new approaches, knows how to measure the impact and adjust.
• A positive attitude and a passion for working with strong, collaborative teams.
• Unafraid of conflict - able to check your ego at the door for the benefit of the product and team.
• Flexible - change and uncertainty don't faze you.
• Excellent interpersonal and client management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work with business stakeholders and technical teams to understand, analyze, and document requirements.
• Deep experience using Figma tooling to design new functionality.
• Ability to design for accessibility & localization.
• Advanced interaction design skills & understanding of an atomic design approach to design systems.
• Knowledgeable with web frameworks such as Bootstrap, and iOS and Android human interface guidelines including Android material design.
• Experience in user research and testing.

Nice-to-haves

• Pendo experience is a plus.
• Enterprise software design experience strongly preferred.
• Front-end engineering skills are a plus.
• Experience working with remote teams a plus.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off.
• Affordable health, dental, and vision insurance options.
• Monthly fitness reimbursement.
• 401(k) matching.
• New-Parent Paid Leave.
• Casual work environments.
• Remote work.