Sr. UX Designer, Design Systems, Project Kuiper

The Sr. UX Designer will drive the definition and design for Kuiper’s mobile and web design framework capabilities. This includes creating and optimizing design foundations, reusable components, and high-level patterns for the Kuiper Design System.

Responsibilities

• Identify, create, and optimize design foundations, reusable components, and high-level patterns for the Kuiper Design System
• Deliver artifacts that raise the bar for visual and user experience design, whether you're working on wireframes, user flows, high-fidelity mockups, or prototypes.
• Partner with a multi-disciplinary product and engineering team to own the implementation of your work.
• Collaborate with designers, engineers and other stakeholders across teams and organizations to increase adoption and shape the future of our design system.
• Create and optimize the processes and tools available to our designer, developers, and other consumers to collaborate.
• Partner with our product and engineering teams to create a consistent cross device customer and user experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, or equivalent design-related field; or commensurate experience.
• 6+ years of UX design or interaction design experience
• 6+ years of design experience creating mockups, wireframes and prototypes for web and mobile applications and/or workflows.
• Experience using tools such as Figma for prototyping design concepts and for defining and documenting the user interface architecture (UI patterns, components and guidelines).
• Proficient establishing, designing and using design systems and design frameworks
• Have an available online portfolio demonstrating samples of design deliverables (design systems, personas, journey maps, wireframes, and prototypes)

Key Skills

• Experience designing consumer-facing or enterprise experiences.
• Experience in applying and advocating for best practices for accessible UX.
• Experience designing for federal 508 Compliance a plus.
• 4+ years of experience working in direct collaboration with product managers, developers, and/or stakeholders
• Experience participating in the complete product development lifecycle of successfully launched applications
• Ability to prototype in environments like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS a plus but not required
• Ability to manage multiple projects and make impact in a fast-paced environment.
• Adobe Creative Cloud experience (Photoshop, Illustrator, or similar) a plus
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills and the ability to articulate the rationale behind your design decisions.
• Demonstrated history of conducting user research, or assisting with the collection of user insights and feedback (e.g., customer interviews and usability studies) and leveraging research in your designs
• Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity and a track record of leading design projects that have launched.