Lead UX Designer

Lead UX Designer to lead the design of user experiences for digital products, collaborating with product managers, engineers, and researchers.

Responsibilities

• Be a subject matter expert in either a supported brand, e-commerce, a particular product, or a specific design discipline and will be a trusted partner in strategically leading and executing initiatives within that space
• Support and evangelize our systems-based design system by being a key contributor to its content, structure, and processes
• Work with design leadership, will be an active participant in mentoring and patterning best practices in design, our culture, and our rigor and craft
• Drive continuous product improvements by researching and rapidly designing iterative functional solutions to enhance the user experience leveraging our design principles, standards and best practices
• Structure and lead collaborative working sessions with cross-functional partners and other product partners to identify and define what problems your product is trying to solve and how best to solve them
• Support user research and testing by gathering assumptions and writing hypotheses, contributing to questions and scenarios for tests with the Research team, and observe sessions to help extract key learns for both your area of focus and the user journey at large
• Access, understand, and utilize site data and metrics to help validate the success of an implemented design and to inform new solutions
• Work side-by-side with Front End Development and Back End Development to build and validate all visual/functional enhancements
• Present solutions to cross-functional and brand partners, clearly articulating the UX design principles and methodologies that informs the work
• Participate in our annual North Star process and roadmap development with your product team to ensure strategic direction is aligned to user needs and design best practices
• Give back to the design team by being engaged in critiques, sharing new learnings and case studies to our team blog, and by challenging existing processes with new ways for the team to be more effective

Requirements

• Passionate advocate for the end user
• UI, visual design, and interaction design expertise
• Proven ability to translate complex design challenges into clear, user-friendly experiences
• Sophisticated sense of visual design/style
• Working understanding of e-commerce and usability best practices
• Collaborative, inclusive and flexible team member
• Highly-organized with extreme attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Positive, constructive approach
• Bachelor’s Degree in Design, Human Computer Interaction or equivalent design experience
• 6+ years of product design experience
• Proficiency with industry standard design tools such as Sketch, Framer, Invision, Invision Studio, and appropriate Adobe software
• Understanding of the capabilities and best practices relating to the use of front-end Web technologies, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Retail/fashion brand experience desired; e-commerce experience ideal
• Experience delivering on business and creative goals through design

Key Skills

• UI, visual design, and interaction design expertise
• Proficiency with industry standard design tools such as Sketch, Framer, Invision, Invision Studio, and appropriate Adobe software
• Understanding of the capabilities and best practices relating to the use of front-end Web technologies, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript