UX Architect II

UX Architect II
Do you dream of crafting delightful and groundbreaking digital experiences?
We're recruiting a UX Architect II to join the team at Cox Automotive. In this role, you'll envision, plan and lay the UX groundwork for a family of products. You'll create or modify design systems, establish interaction rules within a product family, evangelize UX principles and more. The right candidate will be metric-sensitive and able to articulate a strategic vision through both documentation, presentation and relationship-building.
Build something beautiful with us. Apply today!
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
You'll plan, design and guide the overall UX interaction design implementation across digital platforms to ensure a usable, familiar and successful experience. You'll collaborate across other UX organizations and guide interaction designers to create complementary products that form a true ecosystem. Here's what else you'll be doing:

• Developing a deep understanding of our customers and business needs by participating in user research activities, including persona development/evangelism, heuristic evaluation and usability reviews.
• Assessing existing information architecture, content and design on an ongoing basis to identify experience gaps and contradictions.
• Creating user stories and flow diagrams, plus defining information hierarchies.
• Protecting the consistency of the overall user interface and ensure that individual components can be extended and reused.
• Collaborate with technical teams to determine data accessibility and understand technology constraints/advantages for the design structure.
• Examine web analytics to inform overall UX design strategy.
• Help facilitate the visual design and content of reusable components and the design system.
• Identify research-based opportunities to create business value and improve UX.
• Champion user needs and product usability while balancing business and technical constraints.
• Articulate rationale behind decisions and how to prioritize interface features.
• Identify tools, templates and techniques that evolve existing processes.

Who You Are
You can produce user experience documentation like storyboards, user scenarios/tasks/flows, wireframes and prototypes (and you've got a portfolio to prove it). An avid learner who is fascinated by human behavior, you stay up to date on the latest trends and research in product design, SEO and web/mobile technologies work across multiple business units and brands. You also have:
Minimum:

• A bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 2 years of experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and up to 2 years of experience, or 6 years of experience in a related field.
• A strong knowledge of user-centered design methods, techniques and principles.
• Experience working with teams on large-scale, long-term projects.
• Experience with group facilitation.
• Experience in designing for mobile devices, including responsive design.
• Excellent oral, written and verbal communication skills, as well as interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency with Axure, Figma and Microsoft Office applications.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• The ability to lead and influence without direct authority.
• The ability to establish UX methodology, processes, estimates and deliverables.
• The ability to work on multiple projects with competing priorities simultaneously.
• The ability to make intuitive leaps to hypothesize design solutions.
• The ability to understand the big picture along with expert attention to fine detail.
• The ability to deal with ambiguity and to convincingly articulate ideas and rationale.
• The ability to work across multiple internal business units and companies.
• The ability to work both solo and within a team.

Ready to build a better future at Cox? Apply now!
USD 95,900.00 - 143,900.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary of $95,900.00 - $143,900.00. 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.
Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.
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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