Senior UI/UX Designer

What You'll Do

Comprehend, Research, and Explore

Collaborate with product team and stakeholders to understand and visualize the opportunity space, jobs to be done, and problems to solve.

Partner in ownership in maintaining, sustaining, and growing product teams’ continuous discovery pipeline.

Lead user research efforts on a regular frequency by recruiting testers, creating effective research materials, and improve the processes and systems to make research efforts efficient and effective.

Analyze user research and data to uncover insights, shape opportunities, understanding, solutions, and support decision-making.

Prototype and test assumptions with product team, stakeholders, and users.

Visualize data, insights, learnings, and ideas to improve alignment and communication.

Present design concepts and solutions to Product Management, engineering, and stakeholders for collaboration.

Ideate, Prototype, Test, Design, and Release New Product Solution

Utilize research to inform and understand new concepts for key product areas clearly and actionable.

Translate research findings into design concepts and user experience flows through wireframing and sketching and then into higher fidelity mockups and interactive prototypes.

Work closely with product management and engineering teams to facilitate various activities.

Deliver excellent designs, flows, and assets across all platforms to engineering for implementation that are consistent with our brand’s design system with considering the uniqueness and constraints of each platform.

Partner with product management and engineering teams to test solutions, iterate and work towards achieving the current product outcome.

Release solutions into production with the product team and monitor results ensuring future solutions don’t adversely affect existing features.

Manage Life.Church brand standards, style guides, and other applicable brand components.

Collaborate and lead effectively to help product team deliver on product outcomes.

Support Product Team

Champion risk area of usability for Product team.

Contribute to improving the internal processes and systems to improve overall team efficiency and effectiveness.

Continual learning of new tools, skills, and techniques to keep up with the innovation of the platforms and industry.

Share learnings and teachings with other Product Designers or the team to grow collectively.

Contribute to maintaining, sustaining, and growing Product team practices and processes along with design systems.

Support additional leadership opportunities as the team grows and changes.

Partner in support of the product team’s products.

Skills Needed to Succeed

Knowledge of the technical constraints of web and mobile development to inform and innovate design solutions.

Outstanding listening skills and the ability to take what was learned and create a vision to execute effectively.

Proficiency in current and relevant design, testing, and prototyping tools.

Exemplify a high level of user focus.

Effective at process and organizational management to coordinate, structure, and provide vision to projects.

Ability to self-motivate, make independent decisions, and solve problems with innovation.

Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills to clearly explain complicated processes and foster partnerships.

Effective at multi-tasking and time management to meet strict deadlines while remaining flexible and open to change.

Strong leadership skills and understanding of developing and guiding others.

Bachelor’s Degree required.

3+ years in human interaction sociology, psychology, interaction/visual design, or equivalent.

Portfolio of previous related work experience.