Senior UX Designer

NOTE: THIS POSITION IS TO JOIN AS W2 ONLY.

Senior UX Designer
Location: Burbank, CA (Hybrid-Tues-Thurs in-office)
Duration: 12Months
Project
Our team builds user centric B2B, and POC digital products for a high-profile media company. We work in a deeply collaborative environment with designers working across multiple projects and business units. Your role, as a Lead Product Designer, is a very rewarding position with the opportunity to create and improve the digital products that run our company; from internal operations to external facing sites that encompass brands such as DC Comics and Studio Tours. You will also have great networking opportunities with multiple teams cross-functionally.
Job Responsibilities / Typical Day in the Role
UX/UI Design:
- Translate complex business needs and user research insights into Wireframes, high fidelity Interactive Prototypes and production ready assets.
- Leverage and contribute to Design Systems to create native experiences across Web and Mobile.
User Research and Design Thinking:
- Assist in framing research goals and objectives.
- Deeply empathize with users while conducting primary user research to uncover unmet needs, pain points and motivations
- Ability to identify key patterns and trends from user interviews, feedback, and data.
- Synthesize and present research outputs through thematic insights, user journeys, workflows, and similar artifacts.
- Conceive and facilitate internal workshops using Design Thinking methodologies to guide teams from ideation to prototyping.
Collaboration and Teamwork:
- Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders, design, product, and development teams to integrate findings into projects.
- Adaptability to work in diverse team environments and respond to changing project needs.
Must Have Skills / Requirements
1) Advanced knowledge in Figma.
a. Main tool and environment for design work
b. Will be used for layout, prototyping, and communicating visual intent.
c. Designing from and contributing to Design Libraries
2) Excellent visual design skills – shown in Portfolio.
a. Want to see engaging design and problem-solving approach in your work.
b. Many of our products are data-heavy, your portfolio should include examples of how you think of data- and task-centric interfaces.
3) Information and Data Synthesis Experience
a. Making visual or other representations of data to communicate with stakeholders and clients.
Nice to Have Skills / Preferred Requirements
• Experience in designing Enterprise products.
• Experience in software design and development.
• Background in Media or Entertainment.
• Branding experience.
• Background in Media or Entertainment
• Having experience in branding and graphic design across different media, outside of digital.
Technology Requirements:
• Figma – design & interaction tool
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Miro – business collaboration tool
• Jira – Project management and tracking
• Confluence – for documenting data
• MO365
Soft Skills
1) User-Centered Mindset: A passion for understanding and advocating for the end user throughout the design process.
2) Communication Skills:
a. The ability to present complex data and findings in a clear and compelling way to stakeholders at all levels.
b. Verbally, visually and in written form.
c. Able to communicate with and build trust-based relationships across different functions and teams.
3) Analytical Thinking: Strong ability to interpret data, find patterns, and generate insights from research findings.
4) Ability to work independently.
a. As a Lead Product Designer, you are expected to be able to quickly ramp up on project needs and work independently and without supervision.
b. You are comfortable in ambiguous situations where you need to define needs iteratively and continuously and can flex as new information is presented to you.