Senior UX/UI Designer

Senior UX/UI DesignerSeeking a Senior UX/UI Designer who will work closely with design team, product leads, and engineering partners to develop creative solutions that meet business goals and user needs. The candidate should be highly skilled, motivated, and passionate about visual design, UX, and research.Job Duties & ResponsibilitiesSupport Design, Research, and Implementation (60%)Support design research (generative and evaluative) initiatives for your team/productsAnalyze business and technical requirements, lead synthesis sessions with your team, following agile and lean methodologiesCreate user journeys and flows to capture current and future states of user pathways, develop wireframes, interactive prototypes, comps, specifications, and other design documents to communicate design ideas to project teamsPartner with the Accessibility and Design Standards teams to ensure designs are compliant and ensure brand and pattern alignmentCreate and present concepts/deliverables to your working team and our stakeholdersCollaborate with developers through tools like Figma and ZeplinContribute to Product Design Strategy and Stakeholder Communication (30%)Contribute to the overall UX/UI design strategy, including feeding into and refining a design system to facilitate a unified experience across all our productsDocument and present design updates to stakeholders and usersCollaborate and take direction from multiple stakeholders and disciplines to achieve an impactful experienceParticipate and be vocal in agile ceremonies to ensure design needs are metNurture a culture of user empathy and deep curiosity that enables us to build simple, intuitive products for our customersAdvocate for consistent design processes, methods, core systems, and patternsSelf-manage projects and timelines efficientlyManage workload and obtain necessary requirements and acceptance criteria needed to complete workCoordinate with UX Lead, product leads, design team, and engineers to ensure timely delivery of design artifactsHelp foster an environment for collaboration by partnering with business and other creative units to align our visual design approach with project goals, and the Client brandRequired Skills & ExperienceAdvanced understanding of design systems, hierarchy, typography, visual design, responsiveness, accessibility, branding, illustration, data visualization, iconography and interaction design.A Bachelor's degree in a related field (computer science, interaction design, HCI, industrial design, information science, social sciences, graphic design, etc.) and/or equivalent years of work experience.5+ years of professional experience of relevant Design experience.You are detailed oriented and passionate about visual design, UX, and research and have extensive experience in information design and user scenarios, digital interaction design patterns, Web site architecture, user interfaces, and navigation on various platforms (Web, mobile, tablet).Experience with user-centered research, such as usability testing, contextual inquiry, and field interviews.Understanding the physical, cognitive, cultural, and social factors that affect design decisions.Familiarity with front-end coding technologies and data modeling is a big plus.Strong communicator with an ability to demonstrate both leadership and understanding with respect to project partners; Self-managing, but also used to working within a teamHighly adaptable to new information, situations, or challenges and can work independently.A portfolio of your work is required with your application.