Senior User Experience Designer

Senior User Experience Designer

Embark on an exciting journey into the realm of user experience design with 3Pillar! We extend an invitation for you to join our team and gear up for a thrilling adventure. At 3Pillar, our focus is on crafting cutting-edge technologies that revolutionize industries. Do you want to craft an elegant, intuitive product design that delights users while achieving our clients' business outcomes? 3Pillar is looking for a Senior UX Designer to join our growing UX Team. This person will be a key member of our global team, working directly with our US clients on mission-critical engagements.

The Senior UX Designer is responsible for ensuring that the design effort aligns with our client's business objectives. In particular, this includes working closely with the 3Pillar engagement team and clients to create outstanding designs that delight the end users. The Senior UX Designer will work closely and partner with global delivery teams (Product Management, Engineering, and Program Management) to consult with clients on business challenges; deliver best-of-breed products using Agile practices; and drive growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Able to work independently on engagements (i.e., without a 3Pillar UX Lead)
• Guide work of 1-2 3Pillar UX designers (on larger engagements)
• Lead UX rituals/meetings (if there's no UX Lead)
• Participate in engagement agile rituals
• Ensure the UX team understands the product vision, mission, goals, values, and user type(s)
• Explain changes in scope, reprioritizations, implications to junior team members
• Present and explain design decisions and recommendations to 3Pillar team and client stakeholders
• Set up and manage engagement tools (Figma, FigJam, etc)
• Forge strong partnership with PDM, PM, and Engineering
• Identify risks and escalate appropriately
• Possess strong skills in interaction and visual design
• Establish tools and processes for the UX team on the engagement
• Mentor more junior team members
• Help prepare workshops
• Help craft client presentations
• Help create a collaborative team culture
• Participate in technical UX interviews with prospective hires
• Participate in developing internal training and practices
• Help lead internal training sessions
• Publish UX content via LinkedIn, Medium, or other channels approximately 4x per year
• Communicate plans, priorities, and status to the client, team members, and internal management as appropriate.
• Maintain a high awareness of industry issues and trends and emerging technologies such as AI, with a view to incorporating these in future projects and staying ahead of the market.

Minimum Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of experience in a client-facing UX position
• At least 3 years of consulting experience
• Expertise working with complex digital products, business logic, process, and a variety of clients
• Experience in organizational leadership, including experience working with and influencing teams and executive leads
• A strong track record of problem solving and a "roll up your sleeves" mentality
• Entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to see the bigger picture among the details
• Experience working with global teams
• Highly culturally aware
• Experience in facilitating workshops
• Relationship builder. Highly empathetic and collaborative, able to work across mid to senior-level stakeholders to drive decisions.
• Strong communication skills, including ability to explain, persuade, and take a large amount of information and distill it into a clear, concise message.
• Practical knowledge and experience in Agile practices and Lean methodologies to build best-of-breed products

What is it like working for 3Pillar Global?

At 3Pillar, we offer a world of opportunity:

• Imagine a flexible work environment – whether it's the office, your home, or a blend of both. From interviews to onboarding, we embody a remote-first approach.
• You will be part of a global team, learning from top talent around the world and across cultures, speaking English everyday. Our global workforce enables our team to leverage global resources to accomplish our work in efficient and effective teams.
• We're big on your well-being – as a company, we spend a whole trimester in our annual cycle focused on wellbeing. Whether it is taking advantage of fitness offerings, mental health plans (country-dependent), or simply leveraging generous time off, we want all of our team members operating at their best.
• Our professional services model enables us to accelerate career growth and development opportunities - across projects, offerings, and industries.
• We are an equal opportunity employer. It goes without saying that we live by values like Intrinsic Dignity and Open Collaboration to create cutting-edge technology AND reinforce our commitment to diversity - globally and locally.

Join us and be a part of a global tech community! Check out our Linkedin site and Careers page to learn more about what it's like to be part of our #oneteam!