Lead UX Architect

Lead UX Architect
Are you passionate about using your creativity to solving complex user problems?
At Cox Automotive, we're recruiting a Lead UX Architect to lead the research, planning and architecture of UX for websites and applications. You'll spearhead the creation of digital products and coordinate the efforts of other UX architects and researcher. In sync with business goals, you'll devise interaction strategy, develop navigation and structure, design prototypes, organizes content and advocate for users' needs.
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What's In It for You?
Here's a sneak peek at the benefits you could experience as a Cox employee:

• A competitive salary and top-notch bonus/incentive plans.
• Professional development and continuing education opportunities.
• The chance to work with fascinating, cutting-edge platforms.
• Exceptional work-life balance, flexible time-off policies and accommodating work schedules.
• Comprehensive healthcare, with multiple options for individuals and families.
• Generous 401(k) retirement plans with company match.
• Inclusive parental leave policies, plus comprehensive fertility coverage and adoption assistance.

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What You'll Do
A big part of this role is about influence: modeling best practices for UX designers, mentoring junior team members, evolving our UX toolkit and processes, creating buy-in for a user-centered product strategy and contributing your voice to the product design team. Here are more specific details about your responsibilities:

• Analyzing customer, business, product performance metrics and underlying drivers to create data-based recommendations.
• Leading the assessment and benchmarking of competitive user experiences and identifying strategic opportunities based on findings.
• Examining web analytics to inform user interactions and designs.
• Evangelizing Human-Centered Design culture and process.
• Leading the translation of business requirements into simple, usable and compelling interface layouts.
• Leading the creation of comprehensive site maps, user flows, wireframes and interactive prototypes (low/high fidelity).
• Monitoring developments and UX trends within the industry.
• Conducting research with teams and applying insights to generate theories.
• Communicating clearly on a technical level with engineers and other stakeholders.
• Working on complex problems and systems across various interface and interaction types, spaces and user groups.
• Facilitating cross-functional meetings and design workshops.
• Establishing a strong design culture by collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and advocating for user-centered design practices.

Who You Are
Whether working solo or collaboratively, you know how to balance big-picture thinking with a detail-oriented approach. You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, an interest in human behavior and the ability to work on multiple projects/business units simultaneously. You have the following:
Minimum:

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 6 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 4 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience; or 10 years' experience in a related field
• Experience working with teams on large-scale, long-term projects.
• Experience in client services and negotiating business decisions.
• Experience with group facilitation.
• Experience designing for mobile devices, including responsive design.
• Expertise in user-centered design methods, techniques and principles.
• Excellent oral, written and verbal communication skills, as well as interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency with Figma, Axure and Microsoft Office applications.
• Knowledge of Pendo and Optimizely.
• The proven ability (portfolio required) to produce user experience documentation: storyboards, user scenarios/tasks, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, etc.
• The ability to arrange and conduct formal and informal usability tests.
• The ability to establish UX methodology, processes, estimates and deliverables.
• The ability to make intuitive leaps to appropriately hypothesize product design solutions.
• The ability to convincingly articulate ideas and rationale across the company, including the executive suite.
• The ability to deal with ambiguity.
• The ability to stay current on the latest trends and research in product design and web/mobile technologies.

Preferred:

• The ability to develop network/system architecture diagrams.
• Experience with A/B experimentation.

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USD 119,700.00 - 199,500.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary of $119,700.00 - $199,500.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
About Cox Automotive
At Cox Automotive, people of every background are driven by their passion for mobility, innovation and community. We transform the way the world buys, sells, owns and uses cars, accelerating the industry with global powerhouse brands like Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, Manheim and more. What's more, we do it all with an emphasis on employee growth and happiness. Drive your future forward and join Cox Automotive today!
About Cox
Cox empowers employees to build a better future and has been doing so for over 120 years. With exciting investments and innovations across transportation, communications, cleantech and healthcare, our family of businesses - which includes Cox Automotive and Cox Communications - is forging a better future for us all. Ready to make your mark? Join us today!
Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page .
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