UX Designer

$91,905 - $162,366/Yr

Marriott International - Harrisburg, PA

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Harrisburg, PA

Accommodation

About the position

With every journey, travel has the power to shape us and our world. Begin your journey as a Designer User Experience & Design at Marriott International, repeatedly voted one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For®. Join our high energy and talented User Experience & Design team creating best-in-class digital experiences for one of the most recognized hospitality companies in the world. The Manager of User Experience Design helps the team to support a vision for how experiences should be designed across Marriott.com. The ideal candidate brings user experience and visual design skills, obsesses about the guest, and can implement at mass scale. This associate will be a proactive problem solver with a keen focus on data-driven product design. Reporting to the Director of UX and Design, this associate will be a designer skilled at working with digital product teams, producing creative and impactful solutions through ideation, regular feedback and critique. They will work individually and in collaboration with other user experience designers to produce actionable deliverables. A strong portfolio is critical for this role. Your portfolio should showcase experience in UX and visual design, particularly where simplicity and ease-of-use were a major concern.

Responsibilities

• Produces sketches, wireframes, personas, journey maps, flows, designs, motion specs, Figma prototypes and/or presentations as needed to communicate experience design.
• Produces both innovative high-level design concepts / strategy visualizations as well as development-ready designs with specifications.
• Clearly present your work citing industry best practices, qual and quant data to support your decisions.
• Ensure a quality experience on live digital products by participating in the user acceptance testing process.
• Works collaboratively with other sub-disciplines in User Experience as well as other teammates across the organization.
• Uses software including: Figma; AEM Storybook (or equivalent); Adobe Creative Suite; Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• References Design System for appropriate patterns, components, and styles in the course of user experience design work.
• Keeps skills up-to-date on industry trends and applies new knowledge to job.
• Understands web technologies and principles— like responsive design, front-end markup and libraries such as HTML, CSS.
• Provides accurate estimates as to needed time to complete work to feed project plans (and therefore personal deadlines).
• Meets deadlines once agreed upon.
• Reports impediments to completing work and meeting deadlines.
• Provides regular status updates to manager.
• Successfully manages multiple assignments at once.
• Works based on priorities and requests clarification if priorities are not clear.
• Accepts critique and critiques work of others in a helpful and professional manner.
• Communicates in a timely and appropriate manner with teammates.
• Knows when issues should be escalated to manager.
• Develops relationships with members of other teams, and leverages those relationships to answer questions.
• Develops skills in presenting work with clarity and confidence; explains complex matters so that others can understand them.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as a UX designer or a similar role
• 4-year degree from an accredited college or university, preferably in design or technology discipline or equivalent experience
• Experience in one or more of the following user experience disciplines: interaction design, visual design, motion/animation, prototyping
• Experience in solving problems, thinking logically and analyzing complex use cases
• Ability to solve problems quickly, think creatively, and support speed-to-market delivery
• Grounding in general usability and transactional design best practices
• Understanding of atomic design framework
• Effective written and oral communications skills

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with major, large-scale global digital apps, web sites, or other digital products within the commerce or travel space preferred
• Experience working with a multi-brand design systems and using variables/tokenization

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Health care flexible spending account
• Dependent care flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Accident insurance
• Adoption expense reimbursements
• Paid parental leave
• Educational assistance
• 401(k) plan
• Stock purchase plan
• Discounts at Marriott properties
• Commuter benefits
• Employee assistance plan
• Childcare discounts