*This role is eligible to be performed remotely, however, if you reside within 60 miles of Lands’ End’s offices in Dodgeville, WI or New York, NY, you will be expected to collaborate onsite in a hybrid fashion for up to 8 days per month.
The Senior UX/UI Designer is a highly adaptive, creative and inspiring leader who will be responsible for designing global e-commerce business to consumer and business to business experience, meeting our customer’s goals and business objectives. The candidate must be comfortable translating complex business requirements into sitemaps, user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes. The Senior UX/UI designer is expected to have an agile mindset with a user first mentality to rapidly deliver the overall functionality of the design, and in order to ensure a great customer experience, iterate upon it in accordance with usability studies.
Responsibilities
Meet with key business and technology partners to translate requirements into user flows, annotated wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive customer experiences with options and articulate a clear point of view.
Facilitate the business vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping designs utilized for conceptual demonstrations and usability-testing with multiple options and articulate a clear point of view.
Design and deliver annotated wireframes, mockups for mobile, tablet, desktop devices and interfaces.
Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions
Make strategic design and customer experience decisions related to new features and functions.
Take a customer-centered design approach and participate in rapidly testing and iterating designs.
Collaborate with the customer experience team, digital product managers, cross functional business partners, technology team and stakeholders.
Ability to advise global partners on customer experience design methodology and (accessibility) compliance.
Inspire and bring new ideas to the team through staying in the know of current design trends
Lead team design reviews. Provide feedback to grow the team
Establish and maintain design guidelines and collaborate with team members to ensure consistency across designs
Mentor less experienced designers
Lead specific areas with the UX/UI team such as Research, Usability Studies, etc.
Must follow all safe work practices, escalate unsafe conditions and report incidents.
Qualifications
5+ years UI/UX design experience designing complex solutions for complete digital environments.
Expertise in standard UI/UX software such as Axure or other similar tool sets. Knowledge of Jira, Confluence and Adobe Suite software. Basic knowledge of latest versions of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills are a plus.
Strong e-commerce knowledge with extensive experience in using user experience best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first design.
A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, usability and accessibility.
Proficient with gathering and utilizing analytical data to improve the customers shopping experience.
Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to business partners.
Ability to synthesize abstract ideas into concrete design interfaces.
Communicate closely with teams and stakeholders delivering design solutions for approval.
Passionate about all things UI/UX and resolving customer pain points through superior design processes.
Research and showcase knowledge in the industry’s trends and technologies.
Team player with exceptional interpersonal skills.
Ability to create prototypes using latest versions of CSS, HTML and JavaScript
Organized, proactive and able to switch rapidly between multiple work efforts.
A digital portfolio of past work demonstrating breadth and depth of UX/UI design, conceptual thinking and creative problem solving across platforms
BS/BA or minimum of 6+ years professional experience in UI/UX or related field desired.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
