Job Description
Principal UX Designer Our client is seeking to develop a user experience strategy for their next generation platform. The Principal designer on this team will play a key role in facilitating complex design conversations across the enterprise and driving teams to informed decisions that help deliver world-class experiences for website and app. The Role: Join a cross-functional design team working on both strategic visioning and tactical delivery projects. Our Employee Digital Experience team develops complex experience frameworks for other design teams as well as near-term designs for current experiences. The ability to communicate clearly while helping teams make difficult design decisions in support of great user experiences is key Be a champion for our enterprise design strategy, helping to drive re-use, consistency, and product excellence across teams. Discover and understand the unique needs and objectives of our Workplace users, both in the US and globally; use that knowledge to facilitate conversations, help set priorities and make challenging design decisions. Work with enterprise-wide product teams to ensure cohesiveness and connections across initiatives. What We Need From You: By inspiring the team to dig into customer needs, motivations, and behaviours, then apply existing and new standards to push the boundaries of how we solve user problems By recognising and articulating the difference between a good customer experience and a bad one, setting a high bar for product excellence in our design community. By facilitating design sessions with cross-functional teams. Youll listen and understand, give your views to the team, and help drive the process toward the best solution. Through the use of Figma, Teams, pencil and paper to create wireframes, journey maps, concept maps, clickable prototypes and other visual storytelling assets Who You Are: You have 7+ years experience as an information architect, interaction designer, UI designer or a similar role You have a knowledge of and passion for the latest in digital technologies and design trends, including the creation and management of design systems. You have trust and compassion for those around you, and understand that successful design means you cant design without it You are thoughtful and persuasive, but can let go of things outside of your control Youve got a sense of humor You enjoy collaboration and helping designs make decisions to solve problems, and are self-aware enough to know when you need quiet space You have a passion for the power of strategic design and have a positive, anythings possible mindset. Youre accountable for your part, and confident with your skill, experience and expertise. Youre comfortable leading a design session from the front of a room or over the phone You can work within a structured design system, but know when that system needs to be bent or broken Youre curious Youre self-directed and process-driven, comfortable enough to go with the flow when needed to tackle shifting priorities and deadlines Youre not cynical, inflexible, or only about your portfolio Experience designing for multiple cultures and languages a definite plus! For more information, reach out to me today - or hit APPLY! Please note this is a hybrid role in Galway. You must be within commutable distance (no more than 1 hour). Please note you MUST be eligible to work full time in Ireland (EU/Stamp 4) Skills: "figma" "ux design" "wireframes" "ui design" "interaction designer" "information architect" "prototypes" Benefits: Paid Holidays Parking VHI Laptop Life Assurance