Senior UX Designer - VenturaOS

As a Senior UX Designer, you will shape the user experience for the Ventura OS Platform, ensuring a seamless and intuitive journey for customers. You will champion a user-centered design approach and collaborate with cross-functional teams to bring designs to life.

Responsibilities

• Champion a user-centered design approach, passionately understanding and advocating for the needs and preferences of our users.
• Develop detailed user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups that effectively communicate design concepts and user interactions.
• Own the design process, including concept design, product definition, interaction, and visual design, for complex features.
• Help translate abstract user research insights and business requirements into structured, scalable design solutions that seamlessly integrate with the existing design system.
• Help transform broad, conceptual ideas into valuable user experiences that seamlessly blend functionality with ease-of-use.
• Apply systematic design principles to solve complex UX challenges, ensuring consistency and reusability across multiple product features and platforms.
• Contribute to the development, refinement and maintenance of core UI components, patterns, and design guidelines within our comprehensive design system.
• Partner with engineers to provide implementation guidance, ensuring features maintain high quality and alignment with the design vision.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, researchers, engineers, and fellow designers, to bring designs to life and ensure a cohesive experience.
• Facilitate cross-functional workshops and presentations to educate stakeholders on design system capabilities and best practices.
• Contribute to planning and vision on key company initiatives by collaborating with product managers, engineers and researchers.
• Support the planning and execution of usability testing sessions, gathering valuable feedback from users and iterating on designs based on user insights.
• 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.
• 5 - 7+ years of professional UX Design experience.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating expertise in crafting user-centered digital TV and media consumer products.
• Experience designing for and working on zero-to-one project environments is a major plus.
• Proficiency with industry-standard design and prototyping tools (Figma).
• Strong understanding and exposure to the use and maintenance of design systems.
• Experienced working across organizational boundaries and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated experience in contributing to or leading the development and maintenance of design systems.
• Strong understanding of user research methodologies and the ability to translate research findings into actionable design insights.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and prioritize tasks effectively.

Key Skills

• User-centered design approach.
• Proficiency with Figma.
• Understanding of design systems.
• Cross-functional collaboration.
• User research methodologies.
• Communication and presentation skills.
• Independent work and project management.

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 purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.