Senior UX Designer

The Role

Reporting to the UX Lead, a highly skilled UX/UI designer who will help improve and innovate our world-class products through their expert knowledge of user-centered design that drives results through qualitative and quantitative research. This candidate should be obsessed with having deep empathy for our customers, an equally strong understanding of our business goals and intimate knowledge of our technical capabilities. They should be experienced in lean UX and design thinking frameworks - focusing on rapid experimentation and measurement with cross-discipline collaboration.

About TripleLift

TripleLift is building ads that people enjoy.

Advertising is an essential part of the internet. Yet most ads are either never noticed, or are interruptive. We aim to make advertising that’s helpful and effective.

We believe that by recreating the advertising experience to be seamless and focused on content, we can usher in a new era of content monetization. All day we are bombarded by ads online, many of which were created over 20 years ago. TripleLift is building the ad experience of the future.

TripleLift is focused on delivering consumer-focused, digital advertising technology that seamlessly integrate native advertising into every channel of content consumption, including web, app, branded content, and connected TV. By utilizing our proprietary computer vision technology, TripleLift is able to dynamically assemble native ads that match publisher content that are accessible through the industry’s first real-time, native programmatic exchange.

TripleLift is one of the fastest growing companies in America, and has achieved a diversity of product lines, a leadership position in its industry and is regularly recognized as an innovator in its space - all while being consistently profitable.

Responsibilities

• Strong candidates should facilitate and lead user experience projects from start-to-finish that deliver impactful results. Facilitates and leads design-thinking discussions to inform UX strategies by determining research methodologies, target customers, assumption validation and rapid design execution. 
• In an open and collaborative environment, you’ll be responsible for leading discovery, user/market research, competitive analysis, user testing, stakeholder/client interviews, surveys, desirability studies, A/B testing, card sorting, analytics tools, and data analysis.
• Expert at distilling complex information and workflows into simple solutions. A Senior UX Designer should be highly experienced in information architecture, flowcharts, wireframes, hi-fidelity designs, prototyping, pattern libraries, design systems, persona creation, customer experience maps.
• Communicate feedback, deliverables, and recommendations with all relevant teams and management.
• Proficient in Agile product development, scrums, sprints and Jira software to communicate timelines, planning, status, deliverables, and daily updates.
• Familiar with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS design capabilities. 
• Minimum 5 years of UX design experience (and the portfolio to prove it) as a key, hands-
• on UX team member through the product development cycle of a successfully launched web, mobile, and/or software applications.
• Mentor junior designers and foster a strong user experience guild.
• Conduct & facilitate design requirements, UX and visual QA reviews.
• Skill sets
• Expert in Sketch, InVision, interaction design, pattern libraries, and scalable design systems, paper/whiteboard sketching, paper prototyping. 
• Ability to defend your design decisions. Strong communication skills with multi-disciplinary teams, internal and external stakeholders, and management.
• You are curious and love to learn new things with a passion for understanding current and emerging UX trends.

 Requirements

• Familiar with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS design capabilities.
• Fluent in responsive design, mobile/tablet UI UX.
• Minimum 5 years of UX design experience (and the portfolio to prove it) as a key, hands-
• on interaction/visual designer of a UI/UX team through the product development. 
• Conduct & facilitate requirements, design, and implementation reviews.

 Location

New York, New York 

Benefits and Company Perks

• Amazing company culture
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision insurance  
• Equity options 
• 401(k) program 
• Snacks on snacks on snacks
• Yoga, massages, and meals
• Ongoing professional development  

 TripleLift Awards 

• Crain's Best Places to Work - three years running! (Crain's - 2015, 2016, 2017)
• Forbes Next Billion Dollar Companies (Forbes - 2018)
• Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America (Inc. - 2017, 2018) 
• Crain's Fast 50, Fastest Growing Companies in New York (Crain's - 2017, 2018)
• Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (Deloitte - 2017, 2018)
• Forbes Most Promising Companies in America (Forbes - 2015)
• AdTech Startup of the Year Winner (New York Times - 2015)
• Startup of the Year Finalist (AdWeek - 2015)

Note: The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is a federal labor law of general and nationwide application, including Overtime, Minimum Wages, Child Labor Protections, and the Equal Pay Act. This role is a FLSA exempt role.