Job Description
This position will work within our user experience horizontal on our Design System and Accessibility Team. As part of this team, you will collaborate with internal product teams and external stakeholders to drive the strategy and adoption of our Design System as well as lead designers to develop web and mobile application user interfaces. You will also lead efforts to ensure our technology is built in a digitally accessible manner in accordance with WCAG AA 2.1 standards.
Key job responsibilities include the following:
- Use your expertise to extract business and technical requirements and work with designer(s) to develop innovative, high-quality flows and wireframes for web/mobile applications
- Lead/manage a team of UI/UX designers and facilitate the design process by collaborating with product management and engineering teams
- Lead efforts to maintain our Design System with regularly scheduled updates and in accordance with WCAG AA 2.1 accessibility standards
- Oversee the development of prototypes, review and validate designs with stakeholders in order to improve the user experience of new and existing products
- Collaborate with teammates and internal stakeholders to drive adoption and usage of our Design System and ensure documentation within the Design System is up-to-date and easy to use
- Serve as an SME on user interface design and stay up-to-date with latest trends
- Successfully work with developers, project managers, and other internal teams to optimize processes for user-centered design thinking
- Present mock-ups, wireframes, concepts, prototypes and final designs to stakeholders and internal teams
- Work on several projects simultaneously while meeting tight deadlines
- Provide regular progress updates and status to the management
- Ability to innovate and visualize simple, intuitive experiences based on complex requirements
- Ability to communicate detailed design specs to internal teams
Personal Characteristics:
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Ability to manage junior team members to deliver high quality work products
- Self-starter with solid analytical and problem-solving skills
- High level of attention to detail, ability to execute and deliver high quality project deliverables on budget and on time, and multi-task in a dynamic environment
- Ability to think analytically for issue/problem resolution
- Ability to integrate rapidly with existing team
- Good organizational/planning and execution skills
- Ability to interact with individuals at all levels of the organization
- Strong work ethics & commitment to client service excellence
Qualification
College coursework: B.Des / B.E / B.Tech