Sr. UX Designer

What you’ll do: The Senior User Experience Designer will significantly influence the final product by working in close collaboration with the product management and development teams throughout the design lifecycle. Presenting ideas, gathering feedback and iterating towards product solutions that will help make the insurance purchase process better and easier for our users. You should have an understanding of design best practices on both Desktop and Mobile and an ability to clearly communicate them during product reviews and feedback sessions. You will drive all the phases of the design thinking process and play a key role in determining how, why and for who a product is built. This role will report into the product organization and report directly to the Director of User Experience.

• Create engaging web-based applications and products for Desktop and Mobile
• Collaborate with product development teams to understand business objectives and user needs
• Iteratively refine designs based on feedback from product development teams, business stakeholders, or clients
• Produce storyboards, site maps, wireframes, interaction flow diagrams, and other design artifacts that use UX best practices on both Desktop & Mobile environments
• Prototype, validate and defend your product ideas based on user-centric design principles
• Create, organize and deliver design assets to the development team and work to ensure that design is being implemented to the highest standard
• Define overarching user experience guidelines
• Help build style guides, create reusable interface elements, and refine existing ones
• Ownership of multiple threads of design work and the ability to manage timelines and deliverables

What we’re looking for: 

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Graphic Design or equivalent experience.
• 4-6 years of professional experience as a User Experience or Product designer
• Strong problem-solving skills and can communicate ideas, design rationale, and specifics of a user-centric design process
• Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize multiple tasks
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Able to turn rough ideas into touchable, measurable user experiences, designing and prototyping interfaces
• Comfortable presenting designs formally and informally
• Good instincts for usability, but a willingness to validate ideas by measuring and analyzing data
• Understand the opportunities and constraints of multiple platforms (web, mobile, tablet)
• Experience designing for both the Desktop & Mobile platform
• Working knowledge of HTML/CSS, ability to hand-code a huge plus
• Expertise with Adobe products as well as core UX tools like Sketch & InVision
• Highly motivated and takes pride in what’s crafted
• Online portfolio of projects