Intelliswift - Mclean, VA
posted 2 days ago
About the position
The successful candidate will demonstrate solid UX/UI experience, as well as experience managing and evolving design systems. This candidate should display great leadership and presence, and have a company- and team-first mindset. They must also be self-driven and strategic with excellent communication skills. As a lead in our digital team, they will play an essential role in leading our web design efforts across our multiple digital properties. This individual is a highly motivated self-starter with amazing soft skills, who can collaborate with project managers, owners, business strategists, UX researchers, and developers. Must be on top of the latest web design sensibilities, tools, and best practices.
Responsibilities
- Design Systems Creation and Management: Leverage atomic design principles to actively design, expand and continuously advance the future of our corporate websites design system.
- User-centered design approach: Put yourself in the user's shoes and craft experiences that are intuitive, simple and modern. Help them find what they're looking for in the most streamlined way.
- Team Lead: Be a leader in a flat, cross-functional team. Help drive projects forward by not only doing your part, but suggesting strategies to get a project done in the most efficient way. Be proactive and take initiative to do, delegate or facilitate what needs to be done.
- Client & Partner Relations: Help engage and lead a team of cross-functional professionals that hold themselves to a high standard, operate in a team-first environment, take on new challenges and growth opportunities, deliver a high-quality product, exceed the needs of our stakeholders, and succeed in an ever-evolving environment.
- Brand Consistency: Be the gatekeeper to our brand, uphold modern, digital, brand consistency and create opportunities for the brand to be engaging and meaningful.
Requirements
- Must submit a portfolio for review
- Has 5+ years of agency experience working on digital products and websites.
- College degree or equivalent work experience
- Knowledge of Atomic design principles
- Experience designing and managing enterprise-level design systems
- Experience working with UX research team to gather user data and formulate insights to improve IA, user experiences and visual design.
- Client consulting experience
- B-to-B experience
- Team lead experience
- Design documentation experience
- Proficient with Figma and Adobe design tools
- Helpful but not required: front-end development knowledge.
