Senior UX Designer

 
Job Description 

At Redshift, in addition to being a top-notch UX designer, Senior UX Designers are responsible for regularly presenting work to clients, so the ability to communicate confidently and clearly are essential. Senior UX Designers must be able to speak fluently about both business objectives and design principles, and to handle feedback and questions with poise. 

UX designers, consultants, project managers, product managers, and interactive producers are all potential candidates. 

This role reports to our Director of UX. 

 
Responsibilities

  • Understand our clients' customers and users, and serve as their advocate when making design proposals.
  • Generate design concepts, drive design discussions and critiques, and facilitate collaborative sessions with teams and stakeholders. 
  • Prototype design flows and interactions with low-fidelity paper prototypes and clickable prototypes (using tools such as InVision and Flinto), and guide high-fidelity coded prototypes toward a high standard of excellence. 
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with research, visual design, front-end engineering, producers, and company leaders to take products from concept to launch.
  • Deliver detailed wireframes and user flows to agile development teams and refine as needed during project sprints.
  • Lead client meetings and presentations, confidently articulate Redshift’s design thinking, and respond appropriately to feedback. 
  • Mentor junior designers so they may expand their skills. 
  • Help plan and participate in user research and testing, and incorporate learnings back into designs. 
  • Help manage client relationships, and ensure client satisfaction. 
  • Contribute to a collaborative culture by maintaining openness to new or different ideas, seeking out and incorporating input from other team members, and making a creative contribution to other studio projects.  
  • Contribute to a positive, pleasant, and creative culture, and help ensure it is always fun to do business with Redshift. 
 
Qualifications 

Candidates must have: 

  • passion for user-centered design, and all things digital (web, mobile, desktop, social) 
  • strong knowledge of the latest design and technology trends
  • an understanding of user interface design processes and methodology across a variety of devices, and of how web and mobile apps are built 
  • a sophisticated sense of taste 
  • ability to rapidly generate multiple design solutions, evaluate their strengths and weaknesses, and improve upon selected designs 
  • ability to express themselves clearly and confidently  
  • outstanding client management skills
  • great wireframing chops 
  • proficiency with UX tools (e.g. Invision, Sketch, etc)
  • contributed to the launch of several web, mobile, and/or software applications 
  • ability to take criticism and quickly apply feedback to designs
  • tolerance for working on-site in an open studio environment
  • a sense of humor
 
Plus at least 2-3 of these:

  • 3–5+ years experience in an agency environment 
  • experience leading a 3–5-person team of UX, Visual Designers, researchers, and developers
  • experience working with large consumer brands
  • excellent writing skills 
  • visual design experience 
  • technical experience (e.g. coding) 
  • project management training 
  • a great Spotify library  
 
Working at Redshift

Redshift is a digital agency focused on user experience design, interactive media, and Internet business strategy. We are a diverse team of consultants, designers and technologists who have built a reputation for creating unique interactive experiences. We believe in good ideas and working with smart people. 

Our workspace is located in downtown San Francisco in an historic brick-and-timber warehouse. We like it. 

 
Company Culture

Our agency has a strong personality, and we seek like-minded individuals. Redshift team members are: 

  • Highly intelligent
  • Creative
  • Entrepreneurial
  • Tuned in to design
  • Opinionated (but not stubborn)

We:

  • Love to generate new ideas
  • Seek unconventional solutions
  • Welcome friendly debate
  • Care about the way things look
  • Laugh at ourselves (and sometimes other people)
 
Compensation

In order to attract top talent, Redshift offers very competitive compensation packages. Benefits include health insurance, company-sponsored 401(k) plan, and a progressive vacation policy. 

 

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