Senior UI/UX Designer

Clayton Homes • Maryville, TN

6d

About The Position

The UI/UX Designer III is a senior role within the UI/UX Job Family focusing on delivering best-in-class user experiences for our internal and external users.  This position plays an instrumental role in the technical components of the UI/UX Designs, ensuring the smooth user experiences can easily be translated into technical code and capabilities.  This role serves as a senior technical role, able to translate complex designs and concepts into streamlined designs and capabilities.  As a UI/UX Designer III, you will be viewed as a subject matter expert and specialist in this field.

Requirements

• Associate or bachelor’s degree preferred but not required.
• 4+ years recent experience in visual design craftsmanship, combined with a keen ability to anticipate and address user needs.
• Professional level knowledge of industry-standard design software (Figma, Adobe Creative Suites)
• Experience with integration platforms such as Marketing Cloud, Salesforce, Appian or similar.
• Experience with both public facing and internally facing web applications.
• Experience in responsive frontend development (HTML, CSS, Sass, etc.) and frameworks/libraries or design systems (Material Design, etc.).
• Technical Skills Aesthetic Design Agile Software Development Content Management Systems Information Architecture Persona (User Experience) Responsive Web Design Stakeholder Management UI/UX Strategy User Experience (UX) Design Visual Design Wireframing
• Behavioral Competencies Active Listening Analytical Thinking Collaboration and Teamwork Creativity and Innovation Decisiveness Planning and Priority Setting Quality Focus Time Management Applying Standard Practices Managing Innovation

Responsibilities

• Experience and knowledge of UX principles, methodologies, and design best practices.  This includes user centered design, user research methodologies, and accessibility standards.
• Capable of researching and gathering in-depth insights into a user’s needs through a variety of techniques including user observation, group facilitation, storyboarding, etc.
• Creates wireframes, design specifications, prototypes, and user flow diagrams that articulate complex user journeys across multiple webpages, touchpoints, and platforms.
• Experience converting complex business processes into simple, logical, easy to use systems and skilled in page design, organization, and structure of content.
• Works alongside product and development team to define user requirements.
• Ensures design standards and guidelines are maintained and shared with development teams to guide product design.
• Strong active listening and collaboration skills.
• Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal.
• Sufficient understanding of project management approaches, tools, and phases of the delivery lifecycle (Scrum, Kanban, Lean) and experience in JIRA, Confluence, or equivalent documentation tools.
• Participate in end-to-end design reviews with project teams.
• Advocate and lead UX discussions with project teams.
• Consider existing insights, technical constraints, business needs, and specific platform demands to produce user centered, data driven, and design focused solutions.
• Advocate and evangelize user centered design and research best practices.
• Advocate and lead UX discussions with project teams.
• Consider existing insights, technical constraints, business needs, and specific platform demands to produce user centered, data driven, and design focused solutions.
• Create and provide tools that help guide teams on their journey to usable and intuitive design.
• Play an active role in partnering with cross-functional team members in leading cohesive design standards and best practices across the enterprise.
• Mentor and coach Team Members on usability and design best practices.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits including 401(k) with 100% company match of the first 4%; medical, dental and vision plans; paid time off days and holidays.
• Quarterly bonus program.
• Recognized as one of East Tennessee’s top technology workplaces.
• Wellness programs that focus on emotional, social, spiritual, intellectual, environmental, physical, and financial well-being.
• Onsite fitness facility with full gym, workout classes, volleyball and basketball, ping-pong, and disc golf course.
• Paid Time Off for Volunteer work.
• Quarterly profit share bonus program.
• Onsite gym with variety of classes, wellness, professional and personal development programs and much more!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees