Sr. UX Designer

Lead UX strategy and design for key projects while ensuring user-centered design principles are followed. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive UX quality and achieve business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Lead UX strategy and design concept development for key projects, balancing KPI achievement with enhanced user experience.
• Design user interfaces that are intuitive, visually appealing, consistent with brand guidelines, and focused on usability and accessibility.
• Create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to effectively communicate design ideas.
• Plan, conduct, and analyze user research, including usability testing, user interviews, surveys, A/B testing, and other research methods.
• Translate research findings into actionable design recommendations.
• Analyze user data and feedback to identify areas for improvement and optimize design performance.
• Create, edit, and manage web content to ensure clarity, accuracy, and alignment with brand voice and organizational objectives.
• Administer content workflows to ensure timely and accurate delivery of web materials.
• Coordinate publishing schedules to align with marketing campaigns and business objectives.
• Edit web copy to maintain consistency with brand voice, style guides, and quality standards.
• Apply knowledge of SEO best practices to optimize web content for search visibility and rankings.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, AI specialists, marketing stakeholders, and legal teams.
• Communicate research findings and design solutions effectively to stakeholders.
• Champion user-centered design principles throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Ensure the quality of the user experience through usability testing, heuristic evaluations, and other quality assurance activities.
• Collaborate with international teams to align and drive UX quality assurance initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience as a UX Designer or in a related role.
• Experience partnering with Product, Engineering, Research, and Marketing to craft broader product strategies.
• Native-level Japanese language proficiency.
• Knowledge of user-centered design principles, interaction design, and information architecture.
• Strong writing, grammatical, and proofreading skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and presentation skills.
• Knowledge of SEO best practices and web analytics tools is a plus.
• Proficiency in UX design tools such as Figma, FigJam, Adobe Creative Suite, or similar.
• Proven experience conducting a variety of user research methods.

Key Skills

• User-centered design principles
• Interaction design
• Information architecture
• Writing, grammatical, and proofreading skills
• Analytical skills
• Communication, collaboration, and presentation skills
• SEO best practices and web analytics tools
• UX design tools (Figma, FigJam, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.)
• User research methods

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus
• Health, vision, dental insurance
• 401k matching
• PTO
• Volunteer Time Off (VTO)