Staff UX Designer

Lead the development and evolution of the design system and frameworks, ensuring consistency and scalability of design elements across the platform. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to bring designs to life and ensure cohesive, consistent experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and evolution of our design system and frameworks, ensuring consistency and scalability of design elements and patterns across the platform.
• Oversee the definition of complex work across teams, amplify impact through other people, and proactively seek and create opportunities to be effective beyond your own team.
• Champion a user-centered design approach, passionately understanding and advocating for the needs and preferences of our users.
• Contribute to planning and vision on key company initiatives by collaborating with product managers, engineers and researchers.
• Develop and implement design concepts by creating user flows, and interactive prototypes, developing intuitive and efficient user interfaces aligned with industry best practices.
• Transform broad, conceptual ideas into valuable user experiences that seamlessly blend functionality with ease-of-use.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, and fellow designers, to bring designs to life and ensure cohesive, consistent experiences.
• Own the entire design process, including interaction and visual design, for complex features.
• Support the planning and execution of usability testing sessions, gathering valuable feedback from users and iterating on designs based on user insights.
• Provide implementation guidance to engineers, ensuring features maintain high quality and alignment with the design vision.
• Stay informed about industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure our designs remain innovative and competitive.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in relevant field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of professional UX Design experience.
• Proficiency in Figma.
• Experienced working across organizational boundaries and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Seasoned collaborator, working closely with team leads and stakeholders to ensure we’re focused on the appropriate solutions that deliver positive impact and value to our customers

Key Skills

• User-centered design methods
• Creating user flows and interactive prototypes
• Developing intuitive and efficient user interfaces
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Usability testing
• Implementation guidance to engineers
• Staying informed about industry trends

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents
• Retirement benefits such as a 401k plan and company match
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Well-being benefits
• Reimbursement for certain tuition expenses
• Parental leave
• Sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked
• Vacation time for full-time employees up to 120 hours thru the first year and 160 hours thereafter
• Around 13 paid holidays per year
• Employees can also purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan