User Experience Designer

Job Title: UI/UX Designer

Client Description: Global technology client

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Compensation: $65-$75 per hour

THE COMPANY

Are you looking to join a global technology company and work on cutting-edge design?

Summary Description

This hands-on design role balances creativity and logic, and helps ensure a holistic approach is thoughtfully applied across platform typography, iconography, forms, and interface elements. A Designer on the Retail Design Systems team works closely with creative and technical disciplines to create elegant design systems, supporting Retail e-commerce purchase flows, transactional email communications, and the Store App platform.

Responsibilities

• Audit current implementations, and identify potential areas for simplification and improved consistency.
• Create holistic, elegant design systems with a high degree of polish and attention to detail.
• Design with flexibility in mind, ensuring designs are accessible and adaptive to varying workflows, viewports, technologies, and locales.
• Stress test designs across all possible variations, and refine as needed.
• Create prototypes to convey states, transitions, and/or behaviors.
• Prepare design files for final documentation. Ensure layout, typography, and specs are pixel perfect.
• Work closely with the Retail Sr Art Director to understand design direction and priorities.
• Promote thoughtful and purposeful design, rather than an enforcement of rules.
• Help define and/or improve how teams collaborate and leverage existing tools.
• Help create presentation flows that establish and build on a foundation of design rationale.
• Clearly articulate design rationale and any applicable limitations.

Your skills and experience:

• A minimum of 3 years experience in product design (including web, mobile or app design), defining or extending design systems, and/or working within a brand’s strict style guidelines.
• Photoshop and Sketch expertise, including file organization and preparation of pixel-perfect files for design team use.
• Experience in e-commerce, with a strong understanding of HTML and CSS; or app design, with a strong familiarity with iOS and Human Interface Guidelines.
• Preferred: UX and/or UI experience.
• Preferred: BA or BFA in Graphic Design (or equivalent).