Sr. UX Designer LOC : Jersey City,NJ
100,000 - 200,000
Job Description:
- As an agile team, they ensure the product experience renders seamlessly and elegantly to efficiently onboard new members, and to assist highly engaged members in discovering great stories.
- With a focus on reducing key friction points to drive business goals and test new concepts for near-term consideration, the teams objective is to evolve the end-to-end Audible experience into a signature experience.
- Youre a hacker and harvester of new technologies and mobile design trends at heart, able to jump into the fray and drive a compelling experience from a napkin sketch to a well-articulated design POV.
- Youre a pixel perfectionist confident in your ability to work alongside multi-disciplinary designers, product managers, researchers, and engineering partners exploring the limits of audio content discovery and consumption experiences.
- Youre the voice of the customer, passionately committed to aligning customer needs with business goals, and in your sprint grooming session you story point like a boss.
- Design Thinking Contribute to the overall end-to-end user experience for desktop and mobile from the initial concept and validation, down to specifics of a micro-interaction for a feature.
- Develop detailed customer journeys, user flows, wireframes, mockups, and other product deliverables to effectively translate product requirements into a tangible interaction model.
- Support product planning and ideation by participating in collaborative brainstorming and high-level prototyping sessions.
- Work with cross-functional teams (product managers, engineering, customer service, marketing, merchandising, QA, etc.) to facilitate the production of complex user flows and commerce driven projects.
- Work with our in-house User Research department to validate your assumptions, test new features, and incorporate user feedback into design iterations
- Collaborate with your manager to synthesize and incorporate feedback with a user-centered focus.
- Work seamlessly with Visual Design peer(s) to specify and deliver signature elements within the aesthetic and motion design, and maintain standards and brand integrity as a global design system.
- During the implementation phase respond to day-to-day questions from your UX manager, developers, and product managers.
- Also work side-by-side with engineering and QA to identify, document, and verify bug fixes in a timely manner.
- Stay current with the latest design and technology trends across mobile platforms and responsive web frameworks, and adopt modern techniques as appropriate.
- Share knowledge with other teams to drive awareness.
- 5+ years of experience as a user experience designer, product designer, interaction designer, UI designer with a proven track record of shipping consumer products.
- 3+ years of experience in an Agile/SCRUM/Lean-UX environment with rapid validation and highly iterative cycles.
- Familiarity with platform standards, guidelines and best practices for desktop, mobile web, iOS, Android, Windows; a general understanding of the capabilities, limitations, and tradeoffs required.
- Proven ability to understand business goals, product roadmaps and KPIs, and apply appropriate data and customer insights to translate into clear UX priorities for yourself.
- Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills including the ability to communicate effectively in groups and defend your design decisions with sound rationale.
- Developed user research studies using various methodologies including lab testing and multi-variant A/B tests.
- Localization experience with an international product (app or website) is a plus.
- Understanding of SEO and accessibility standards is a plus.
- We have a comprehensive benefits package but here are some of the fun perks:
- Free catered lunch daily, breakfast on Mondays, all the snacks you can eat and Happy Hour on a Friday
- Free onsite gym and 25% fitness reimbursement
- Ruthless ping-pong tournaments and seasonal sports clubs - volleyball, basketball, soccer, etc.
- Endless company sponsored events
- Transit reimbursement, paid parking and shuttle service
- Tuition assistance
- Annual discount
- Access to Web Services and much more...
- Audible is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer-Minority/ Female/ Disability/ Ve