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Senior UX Designer

Cricut • United States of America 🇺🇸

Full-time Senior

As a Senior UX Designer, you will create thoughtful user experiences for desktop and mobile software products, ensuring a user-centered approach throughout the design process. You will collaborate with various teams to deliver cohesive experiences that integrate hardware, software, and content.

Responsibilities

  • Design clear flows and behaviors for native applications on both desktop and mobile devices
  • Ensure systems thinking is brought to bear to create cohesive and delightful experiences that span hardware, software, and content
  • Reinforce a learning mindset: Participate in user research and A/B testing, advocate for users at every step of the way, and leverage findings and data artfully to continuously improve designs
  • Bring a keen understanding of users' motivations, goals, and needs to help define new features, functions, and products
  • Influence, challenge, extend, and evolve UX design language to craft elegant and consistent design experiences
  • Foster successful collaboration with software product managers, software developers, and other colleagues including hardware product managers, materials product managers, content creators, hardware engineers, and business stakeholders as needed, to drive solutions through to completion
  • Help evolve design processes and deliverables to best meet the needs of a growing organization, as well as increase efficiency within the UX group
  • Capture ideas and solutions in varying levels of fidelity, as the situation warrants – from whiteboard sketches to flow charts to interactive prototypes
  • Manage multiple projects simultaneously, meet deadlines, and bring clear priorities to bear through deep empathy with users

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), interaction design, graphic design, industrial design, information science, computer science, or a related field
  • 5+ years of work experience designing web and mobile applications and applying user-centered techniques
  • Thoughtful and well-presented portfolio of UX design solutions and processes
  • Demonstrated experience bringing clarity and simplicity to consumer-facing applications
  • Proven track record of successful product releases in which user-centered product design processes were applied
  • Ability to grasp product requirements and scope design work accordingly, with careful attention to detail
  • Strong ability to collaborate with teams across varying disciplines (hardware engineering, software development, marketing, etc.) to create a holistic product experience
  • Passion for innovation and a “can do” attitude
  • Keen attention to detail and systems thinking
  • Ability to interpret and act on design feedback from both collaborators and stakeholders
  • Excellent presentation and written communication skills, including the ability to clearly and concisely articulate solutions, design rationale, and process to colleagues and stakeholders in varying disciplines
  • Ability to discuss high-level concepts and detailed design with equal fluency
  • Well-versed in applying quantitative data and qualitative user insights to drive design directions, prototypes, and decision making
  • A strong grasp of current UI/UX trends, platforms, and guidelines (e.g., iOS and Material Design guidelines)
  • Hands-on experience with design software including Figma
  • Experience using design systems is a plus
  • Experience designing for combined hardware and software interaction, design applications, and/or community features is a plus
  • Interest or experience in DIY or crafting domains is a plus

Key Skills

  • Hands-on experience with design software including Figma
  • Experience using design systems
  • Experience designing for combined hardware and software interaction, design applications, and/or community features
  • Interest or experience in DIY or crafting domains

Benefits

  • Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
  • 401(k) match
  • Generous PTO
  • Yearly lifestyle stipend to support wellness and passions
  • Exclusive employee discounts

About Cricut

Cricut makes smart cutting machines that work with an easy-to-use app, an ever-growing collection of materials, and crafting essentials to help you design and personalize almost anything — custom cards, unique apparel, everyday items, and so much more. At Cricut, we believe that we’re all born makers. When we built our first cutting machine, we saw the potential for a simple yet powerful tool to completely transform the way people craft, design, and DIY. Since then, we continue to innovate with new machines, platforms, materials, and tools, but that’s just what we do. Who we are is a bustling worldwide community, a means for connection, and an outlet for unbridled creativity. Join us as we place the power of handmade into the hands of all. Let’s make. Enjoy incredible perks. We take care of our team. From medical, dental, vision, and retirement benefits, IVF contribution, pet insurance, 401K match, life insurance to incentive programs, work-life balance, and employee discounts, we

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