Senior UX Designer

As a Senior User Experience Designer, you will collaborate with Product, Marketing, and Software teams to deliver a best-in-class user experience. You will also plan and perform UX design activities across multiple platforms and create user-centered system requirements.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with Product, Marketing, and Software team members to deliver a best-in-class user experience across multiple platforms to John Deere customers
• Plan, coordinate, and perform UX interaction design and validation activities across multiple platforms with various customer types from a system design and data integration perspective
• Be responsible for feature definition and interactions between internal and external data sources
• Create (and occasionally conduct) detailed research plans and protocols, analyze data, and develop user centered system requirements
• Collaborate with digital UX designers and leads on solution concepts derived from user-centered system requirements
• Use designs, flows and diagrams to accelerate discussions and decisions early in and often in the product development process
• Apply internal/external standards and best practices to create tangible visualizations that serve as the blueprint for product designers to turn a concept into a solution, while ensuring product styling is consistent with brand standards

Requirements

• 4 or more years of experience in the UX industry
• Experience planning, executing and analyzing UX / UI design projects, with a focus on user-centric solutions
• Visual interface design, as applied to web and mobile formats
• Experience applying User-Centered Design principles to complex interface problems
• Experience working with cross-functional teams, such as: engineering, software development, marketing, and business leaders
• Experience of communicating research methodology, design concepts, data analysis, and test results to a broad range of stakeholders
• Experience with technology and product development processes
• Proficiency with a design and rapid-prototyping tools, such as Figma or Sketch
• Experience creating wireframes, mock-ups, and interactive prototypes
• Experience incorporating branding and common design system components and guidelines into product experiences
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and an ability to lead conversations, direct work for others, and diffuse conflicts
• Understanding of accessibility design and guidelines

Key Skills

• UX / UI design projects
• Visual interface design
• User-Centered Design principles
• Cross-functional teams
• Communication of research methodology, design concepts, data analysis, and test results
• Technology and product development processes
• Design and rapid-prototyping tools
• Wireframes
• Mock-ups
• Interactive prototypes
• Branding and common design system components and guidelines
• Interpersonal communication skills
• Accessibility design and guidelines

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Highly competitive base pay and performance bonuses
• Savings & Retirement benefits (401K and Defined Contribution)
• Healthcare benefits with a generous company contribution in the Health Savings Account
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Tuition assistance
• Fitness subsidies and on-site gyms at specific Deere locations
• Charitable contribution match
• Employee Purchase Plan & numerous discount programs for personal use