Senior UI/UX Designer

What You'll Do

Comprehend, Research, and Explore
• Collaborate with product team and stakeholders to understand and visualize the opportunity space, jobs to be done, and problems to solve.
• Partner in ownership in maintaining, sustaining, and growing product teams’ continuous discovery pipeline.
• Lead user research efforts on a regular frequency by recruiting testers, creating effective research materials, and improve the processes and systems to make research efforts efficient and effective.
• Analyze user research and data to uncover insights, shape opportunities, understanding, solutions, and support decision-making.
• Prototype and test assumptions with product team, stakeholders, and users.
• Visualize data, insights, learnings, and ideas to improve alignment and communication.
• Present design concepts and solutions to Product Management, engineering, and stakeholders for collaboration.
 
Ideate, Prototype, Test, Design, and Release New Product Solution
• Utilize research to inform and understand new concepts for key product areas clearly and actionable.
• Translate research findings into design concepts and user experience flows through wireframing and sketching and then into higher fidelity mockups and interactive prototypes.
• Work closely with product management and engineering teams to facilitate various activities.
• Deliver excellent designs, flows, and assets across all platforms to engineering for implementation that are consistent with our brand’s design system with considering the uniqueness and constraints of each platform.
• Partner with product management and engineering teams to test solutions, iterate and work towards achieving the current product outcome.
• Release solutions into production with the product team and monitor results ensuring future solutions don’t adversely affect existing features.
• Manage Life.Church brand standards, style guides, and other applicable brand components.
• Collaborate and lead effectively to help product team deliver on product outcomes.
Support Product Team
• Champion risk area of usability for Product team.
• Contribute to improving the internal processes and systems to improve overall team efficiency and effectiveness.
• Continual learning of new tools, skills, and techniques to keep up with the innovation of the platforms and industry.
• Share learnings and teachings with other Product Designers or the team to grow collectively.
• Contribute to maintaining, sustaining, and growing Product team practices and processes along with design systems.
• Support additional leadership opportunities as the team grows and changes.
• Partner in support of the product team’s products.

Skills Needed to Succeed

• Knowledge of the technical constraints of web and mobile development to inform and innovate design solutions.
• Outstanding listening skills and the ability to take what was learned and create a vision to execute effectively.
• Proficiency in current and relevant design, testing, and prototyping tools.
• Exemplify a high level of user focus.
• Effective at process and organizational management to coordinate, structure, and provide vision to projects.
• Ability to self-motivate, make independent decisions, and solve problems with innovation.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills to clearly explain complicated processes and foster partnerships.
• Effective at multi-tasking and time management to meet strict deadlines while remaining flexible and open to change.
• Strong leadership skills and understanding of developing and guiding others.
• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• 3+ years in human interaction sociology, psychology, interaction/visual design, or equivalent.
• Portfolio of previous related work experience.

Benefits We Offer

• Paid parental leave, including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
• Generous employer-paid leave for the use of vacation, sick time, and other qualifying reasons. 
• Innovative and comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance that provides team members with useful resources and savings to navigate their holistic health. 
• Life insurance policy provided for all staff members at 2x annual salary at no cost. Additional life insurance coverage is available to purchase. 
• Short-Term and Long-Term disability is covered at 100% for full-time qualified staff members.
• Comprehensive wellness and mental health benefits allow staff to proactively invest in their physical and emotional health.
• Generous 401(k) retirement plan allowing a team member to have up to 12.5% (including employee contribution, employer match, and employer discretionary contribution) contributed into their account in their first year. It doesn’t stop there—the more years on staff, the greater the investment! 
• $160 annually in development dollars for team members to invest in their professional growth. 
• Casual dress and work environment.
• And much more!

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