Senior Director, UI/UX Design

$177,000 - $265,000/Yr

Commerce IQ - Sunnyvale, CA

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Sunnyvale, CA

Publishing Industries

About the position

The Senior Director UI/UX Design will relentlessly focus on improving the user experience of our customers and delight our users. You will be the driving force behind our user research efforts. This is a unique opportunity for a self-motivated individual to shape and grow the UX research function from the ground up. We'd like you to help lead, research, define, and improve end-to-end UX of our applications, while working with our customers and our product, marketing, and technology teams. Let your passion for creating exceptional user experiences thrive. You will also help bring in best practices, and research and design methodologies. Because of the critical nature of the role, we are looking for an experienced and well-respected candidate.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a talented team of UI/UX designers, providing guidance and fostering a culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous improvement.
• Act as an individual contributor on critical projects, designing user interfaces, flows, and experiences to solve complex user needs.
• Champion user-centered design practices, driving research initiatives, gathering user feedback, and incorporating insights into the design process.
• Lead the development and evolution of the design system to ensure consistency across all platforms and touch points.
• Establish design KPIs and work with data teams to analyze user behavior, ensuring that design decisions are informed by data and directly impact user engagement and retention.
• Work closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure design solutions are feasible, scalable, and in alignment with technical constraints.
• Drive design innovation, staying updated on UI/UX trends, tools, and best practices to continually improve the product's user experience.

Requirements

• 8+ years of overall design experience, with 1-2 years at a startup.
• Experience with best practices for User Experience Design, Information Architecture, and Interaction Design.
• Experience in life cycle design projects from design strategy through execution.
• Ability to work with senior leadership to create strategic visions for the product and then deliver on those.
• An inspiring portfolio that demonstrates experience managing design processes, leading UX design projects, crafting design systems, working through complex user flows that are functional, intuitive and visually compelling.
• Hands-on with design tools, partnering closely with other designers and/or engineering teams. Experience designing and prototyping with tools like Figma.
• Experience in providing and effectively communicating strategic and tactical recommendations based on data.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with B2B, SaaS and analytical applications.

Benefits

• Base salary range of USD: $177,000 - $265,000 per year.
• Eligibility for long-term incentives, in the form of company stock options, as well as potential discretionary bonuses.
• Access to comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Access to a 401(k)-retirement plan.
• Short & long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• At least 10 paid company holidays in each calendar year.
• Unlimited PTO for full-time employees.