UX Designer [67394]

Company: Onward Search
Location: San Jose
Posted on: May 16, 2022

Job Description:

Our Client empowers economic opportunity for all by connecting over 170 million buyers with our worldwide network of sellers. As a Sr. Designer on the Ads team, you'll be part of their core product design team. In this role you will engage withteams across the organization for the Selling part of the Ads experience and contribute to the overall architecture ofthe experience. You will play a key role in defining the future user experience for the world's largest onlinemarketplace with over 100 million shoppers and 25+ million sellers. Your responsibility in this role is to bring your talents as a systems problem solver, accomplished interaction designer,and visual designer to bear in crafting sophisticated and simple interfaces that solve complex interaction problems.Soft skills will also be incredibly important as you forge relationships across teams and across functions to help realizethe future vision of Advertising. About You You bring people along and are a systems problem solver with proven success at tackling design challenges that cutacross a large ecosystem of features, platforms, and channels. You thrive on making order out of chaos andsimplifying the complex. You should be knowledgeable about our competitors, understand established design patterns and standardsmethodologies, but always feel the need to do better. You are a collaborator who listens and responds inclusivelywhile gracefully bringing together varying ideas, opinions, and goals into simple, functional, and sophisticated designsolutions that we can all cheer about. You will collaborate with our data, design, product and engineering teams and help forge a consistent vision andarchitecture for bringing the experience together across multiple design and implementation projects. Responsibilities

• Build world-class, user-centered designs incorporating business requirements, product learnings, customerfeedback, and user research *
• Develop conceptual diagrams, wireframes, visual mockups, and prototypes
• Participate in user research, testing and product discovery
• Communicate design work, choices and negotiate strategic direction with peers, researchers, design leaders, product partners and executives
• Communication skills - strong verbal, written, and visual presentation skills
• Strong interaction design skills, as well as a strong grasp of the English language in order to build and share simple user flows
• Strong communication skills - build positive working relationships with team members and across teams, and have a good sense of humor
• Hands-on design skills - ability to build organized information architecture maps, demonstrated knowledge of UCD methodology
• Confidence - Ability to speak openly about UCD solutions, understand business requirements, and be technical enough to work closely with developers
• Essential Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of experience as an interaction designer, product designer, or similar role
  • A portfolio that showcases relevant design projects and includes your process, design explorations and final work
  • Skilled at crafting narratives around user problems and business needs and explaining how your designs meet those challenges
  • Able to understand detail and find radically simple solutions that delight users
  • Experience with Figma, Sketch, Zeplin, Invision or equivalents
  • Experience partnering with product and developers to deliver great experiences
  • Preferred Qualifications
    • Master's degree in a design-related field
    • Experience designing for small businesses, financial products or with sophisticated information sets
    • Accomplished visual designer as well as interaction designer
    • Experience crafting and leveraging pattern libraries for sophisticated interactions
    • Please include a link to your portfolio.

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