Senior UI/UX Designer

Senior UI/UX Designer

The Senior UI/UX Designer is an individual contributor role in the Seegrid Engineering team. The role is responsible for independently researching, designing and testing the end to end user experience on major parts or entire projects of new hardware, software and service applications for our portfolio of self-driving vehicles and software. Given the robotic domain, this role requires someone who seeks out and thrives in problem spaces that are highly technical and complex in nature. 

The Sr Designer executes work with autonomy and is expected to act as the design lead for their assigned initiatives from early exploration to delivery. The Sr. Designer is expected to have a well rounded and broad skill set, feeling comfortable driving any stage of the design process.  The Sr. Designer’s style of work should be highly tactical in nature, focused on delivering high quality designs quickly and efficiently. The Sr Designer shows self-initiative and will lead design projects as a key member of our development team. 

The successful completion of your first year, looks like:

• You have fully onboarded; developing a deep technical understanding of the robotic domain and feel confident navigating the space.
• You have led design efforts for at least two features or products and delivered completed designs.
• You have established effective working relationships with our backend and frontend teams to ensure that designs are technically viable and being implemented as intended. 
• You have attended at least two customer site visits to study how our robots work in the field.

Responsibilities Include:

• Demonstrates ability to create professional quality visual design 
• Demonstrates ability to breakdown complex problems into elegant user flows
• Creates intuitive, coherent designs that align with brand standards and advances the Seegrid Design System.
• Conducts, analyzes and reports findings and recommendations from field research, usability testing and heuristic evaluations. 
• Plans and completes assigned tasks and deliverables with minimal guidance and supervision.
• Actively follows design trends, tools and technologies, shares knowledge and explores ways to apply to offerings.
• Identifies issues, develops alternatives and implements a solution, while keeping leadership apprised.
• Authors and contributes to design project plans, schedules, deliverables and performance objectives.

Required Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Human-Computer Interaction, Design, Computer Science or a related field and 5-7 years of relevant experience.
• Experience supporting end-to-end experience design on product development projects is required.
• Experience with user research, analysis and testing methods is required.
• Proficiency in designing, iterating and prototyping user interfaces is required.
• Fluency with contemporary design and collaboration tools is required.
• Proficiency in delivering design work products, e.g., sketches, flows, wireframes, prototypes is required.
• Proficiency in Figma or a comparable UI design tool is required.
• Experience with a variety of product development processes, e.g., Agile, waterfall, etc. is preferred.
• Strong team player, excellent communication and presentation skills and customer service driven.

Desired Experience:

• Design experience with both mobile and web-based applications is preferred.
• Design experience in a hardware + software environment is preferred. 

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