UX Designer (III)

UX Designer

As a User Experience (UX) Designer, you own outcomes for one mature project, complex program, or emerging area. You accomplish this by navigating and defining a scalable and sustainable approach to solve difficult problems with limited precedent and/or by developing and evangelizing long-term user experience & product strategy for your team. You influence by guiding the momentum of multiple adjacent design efforts and/or by providing alternative perspectives for your team that challenge prevailing thinking against common objectives and/or by provoking greater divergence of thinking. You apply your expertise by serving as a subject-matter expert in UX design principles, user-centered product development methodologies, design systems, and research tools. You collaborate with others to deliver work such as: analyzing or anticipating user needs, resolving constraints, and mitigating potential risks, leading the implementation of a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products, defining user experience/product strategy for your team, and exploring innovative solutions to new or existing problems that explicitly consider and mitigate unintentional harm. You have a proven ability to design products and deliver outputs including the product or platform, and possess the depth of knowledge, experience, and business acumen required to assess and communicate how well-considered the design work is for appropriateness, longevity, collaboration, scaling.

Responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with engineers to communicate, negotiate, and/or influence design intention. Guide design specifications (e.g., design specs, mock-ups, or product models) for implementation.
• Use and propose new, key data and metrics to evaluate product impact, understand the product ecosystem, user trends, and industry (e.g., competitors) by collaborating across teams when developing design solutions.
• Drive improvements in design based on UX testing and stakeholder input and provide input and feedback to engage stakeholders on product design and achieve product goals.
• Build consensus across teams and gain support for design strategy across stakeholders. Communicate design approach to other designers or stakeholders (e.g., product manager), addressing and anticipating challenges and questions.
• Contribute to developing project priorities in alignment with larger project goals, and coordinate allocation of resources within the project. Act on opportunities to expand responsibilities within the immediate product team.
• Create design solutions based on user insights, business needs, and industry trends that further business objectives. Support stakeholders in achieving key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Create innovative design solutions to user, product, and business problems. Anticipate evolving design constraints and communicate rationale of choices related to design solutions.
• Drive holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products. Perform design and testing processes and help develop and generate support for a design vision with partners.
• Guide UX designers in creating design concepts for product ideation and/or user research/testing or conduct research independently to inform design. Seek research insights to develop the appropriate design direction.
• Apply, adapt, and/or define UX design frameworks for user experiences, including principles, patterns, and systems. Leverage writing and design tools to visualize ideas or develop mock-ups or prototypes to drive the product vision forward. Tailor deliverables based on product or platform requirements independently. Identify and follow writing and design templates, style guides, and accessibility guidelines.
• Propose ideas to improve UX by analyzing or anticipating user needs through collaboration with others, and solve constraints in strategy, product, or technology.

Minimum role qualification requires proficiency in:

• Data analysis, synthesis & planning
• Product design (Knowledge)
• Interactive technology
• UX research methodology
• Product development lifecycle
• Aesthetic sensibility
• User behavior
• Presentations
• Storytelling
• Systems thinking
• Craftsmanship

Work Location: New York - Hybrid (Hybrid work: Tues-Thurs in the office. Monday & Friday remote)

Work Schedule: Normal EST business hours, Monday to Friday

Job description: Core Local Journeys in Maps. We are accountable for some of the most foundational, high-traffic surfaces within Maps (Search, Saves/Lists, Inspire, and Placesheet). Our team sits at the intersection of utility and discovery, taking the world's local information and making it seamlessly accessible, beautiful, and actionable, helping users decide where to go, how to get there, and what to do when they arrive.

Top skills

• Production-Ready Designs & Prototypes: Deliver comprehensive design specs, prototypes, user flows, and assets that adhere to (and push the boundaries of) our design systems to seamlessly move concepts into production.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with the broader UX team (Design, Research, Content Strategy) and cross-functional peers (PM, Engineering, Marketing, Data Science) to champion user-centric solutions.