User Experience Designer - User Experience Designer V - 3020897

Job#: 3020897

Job Description:

JOB TITLE: Principal UX Designer

DURATION: 12 months

LOCATION: ONSITE IN SAN FRANCISCO, CA , SEATTLE, WA , OR LOS ANGELOS, CA

PAY RATE: $80 - $90 HOURLY

Job Description: Principal UX Designer

Description

As a Principal UX Designer focusing on the visual experience for millions of fans across the world, you'll be responsible for creating and owning experiences using a multi-disciplinary skillset. You will be a subject matter expert and strategic leader for projects across the organization, encouraging stakeholders to think holistically about the customer experience. You will have an opportunity to relentlessly simplify and distill complex business processes into intuitive and elegant experiences at scale. To be successful you must be a critical, inventive thinker with exceptional design chops, an excitement for understanding and using data, strong leadership abilities, and an ability to communicate your ideas effectively across all levels of the organization. Being a big music fan would be a big plus.

Key job responsibilities

• Create process flows, conceptual diagrams, wireframes, and mockups to effectively communicate high-level design strategies and detailed interaction behaviors
• Facilitate work sessions with executive leaders to align on product vision and design direction
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to help define requirements, user scenarios and use cases
• Champion human-centered design culture and advocate for customer needs across the organization
• Develop and nurture relationships across teams and disciplines to promote collaboration and efficiency
• Lead usability testing and create final design and detailed interaction behavior specifications for handoff to engineering teams
• Define, evolve, and drive adoption of design guidelines, mechanisms, best practices, processes, and tools

A day in the life

In this onsite role, a Principal UX Designer will lead strategic design initiatives that shape the future of the team. You will drive UX design for high-impact, complex projects from discovery to delivery, working from ambiguous requirements to define design flows, interactions, and content strategies in collaboration with business leaders, engineers, product managers, and other UX designers. You'll mentor design talent, facilitate executive reviews, and set the bar for design excellence across the organization. To be successful, you must be a critical, inventive thinker with exceptional design chops, proven leadership abilities, an excitement for understanding and using data, and an ability to communicate your ideas effectively.

Basic qualifications

• 10+ years of design experience
• An available online portfolio that demonstrates delivering end-to-end experiences for digital services across multiple platforms and devices
• 8+ years of experience in UX design for consumer facing products
• Bachelor's degree or above in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or Associate's degree or above

Preferred qualifications

• A master's degree in Design, Information Science, Computer Science/HCI, or a design-related discipline such as cognitive psychology
• Proven ability to present strategic rationale for design decisions to executive stakeholders
• Lead product designer for large, complex projects that present multidisciplinary challenges
• Experience leveraging AI tools in the product design process
• Experience designing for AI-enabled features
• Experience mentoring and elevating senior-level design talent
• Experience defining and maintaining design patterns and UX standards
• Experience in integrating qualitative and quantitative data into design work and iterations
• Experience designing for voice and multimodal experiences
• Able to take ambiguous design problems and work with stakeholders and user research insights to craft design solutions grounded in customer needs and business goals

EEO Employer

Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click here for more details.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Apex team member can provide.