The Senior User Experience Designer leads UX efforts, collaborates with clients and teams to create intuitive designs, mentors junior designers, and manages engagement tools.
👋 Greetings, future User Experience:
Embark on an exciting journey into the realm of user experience design with 3Pillar! We extend an invitation for you to join our team and gear up for a thrilling adventure. At 3Pillar, our focus is on crafting cutting-edge technologies that revolutionize industries. Do you want to craft an elegant, intuitive product design that delights users while achieving our clients’ business outcomes? 3Pillar is looking for a Senior User Experience Designer to join our growing UX Team. This UX Lead will be a key member of our global team, working directly with our US clients on mission-critical engagements.
The UX Lead is responsible for ensuring that the design effort aligns with our client’s business objectives. In particular, this includes working closely with the 3Pillar engagement team and clients to create outstanding designs that delight the end users.The UX Lead will work closely and partner with global delivery teams (Product Management, Engineering, and Program Management) and the Client Services team to support pre-sales efforts; to consult with clients on business challenges; deliver best-of-breed products using Agile practices; and drive growth.🚀💻
We are 3PILLAR GLOBAL
We build breakthrough software products that power digital businesses. We are an innovative product development partner whose solutions drive rapid revenue, market share, and customer growth for industry leaders in Software and SaaS, Media and Publishing, Information Services, and Retail.
Our key differentiator is our Product Mindset. Our development teams focus on building for outcomes and all of our team members around the globe are trained on the Product Mindset’s core values – Minimize Time to Value, Solve For Need, and Excel at Change. Our teams apply this mindset to build digital products that are customer-facing and revenue-generating. Our business-minded approach to agile development ensures that we align to client goals from the earliest conceptual stages through market launch and beyond.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Able to work independently on engagements (i.e., without a 3Pillar UX Lead)
- Guide work of 1-2 3Pillar UX designers (on larger engagements)
- Lead UX rituals/meetings (if there's no UX Lead)
- Participate in engagement agile rituals
- Ensure the UX team understands the product vision, mission, goals, values, and user type(s)
- Explain changes in scope, reprioritizations, implications to junior team members
- Present and explain design decisions and recommendations to 3Pillar team and client stakeholders
- Set up and manage engagement tools (Figma, FigJam, etc)
- Forge strong partnership with PDM, PM, and Engineering
- Identify risks and escalate appropriately
- Possess strong skills in interaction and visual design
- Establish tools and processes for the UX team on the engagement
- Mentor more junior team members
- Help prepare workshops
- Help craft client presentations
- Help create a collaborative team culture
- Participate in technical UX interviews with prospective hires
- Participate in developing internal training and practices
- Help lead internal training sessions
- Publish UX content via LinkedIn, Medium, or other channels approximately 4x per year
- Communicate plans, priorities, and status to the client, team members, and internal management as appropriate.
- Maintain a high awareness of industry issues and trends and emerging technologies such as AI, with a view to incorporating these in future projects and staying ahead of the market.
REQUIREMENTS
- At least 5 years of experience in a client-facing UX position
- At least 3 years of consulting experience
- Expertise working with complex digital products, business logic, process, and a variety of clients
- Experience in organizational leadership, including experience working with and influencing teams and executive leads
- A strong track record of problem solving and a “roll up your sleeves” mentality
- Entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to see the bigger picture among the details
- Experience working with global teams
- Highly culturally aware
- Experience in facilitating workshops
- Relationship builder. Highly empathetic and collaborative, able to work across mid to senior-level stakeholders to drive decisions.
- Strong communication skills, including ability to explain, persuade, and take a large amount of information and distill it into a clear, concise message.
- Practical knowledge and experience in Agile practices and Lean methodologies to build best-of-breed products
BENEFITS
- At 3Pillar, together we create incredible.™ We are hiring new team members to assist us in continuing our growth trajectory as a fast growing global team of thousands of professionals. New members will live our shared values to deliver exceptional products and services to clients.
- We support the comprehensive wellbeing of our team members, through:
- Career growth and development
- Physical and mental wellbeing: as a company, we spend a whole trimester in our annual cycle focused on wellbeing. Whether it is taking advantage of fitness offerings, mental health plans (country-dependent), or simply leveraging unlimited PTO to take some needed time off, we want all of our team members operating at their best.
- Living our values as an equal opportunity employer, and,
- Providing a comprehensive US benefits package that includes:
- Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short Term/Long Term Disability
- 401K retirement savings plan
- Unlimited PTO
- Check out our Linkedin site and Careers page to learn more about what it’s like to be part of our #beoneteam!
Top Skills
Agile Practices
Figjam
Figma
Lean Methodologies
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