Our client, a leading digital studio, is looking for a top-notch Senior UX designer in their growing SF office

The role

• Lead a small team of UX designers and collaborate cross-functionally with research, visual design, front-end engineering, producers, and company leaders to take products from concept to launch.
• 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 Pixate), and guide high-fidelity coded prototypes toward a high standard of excellence.
• Deliver detailed wireframes and user flows to agile development teams and refine as needed during project sprints.
• Manage simultaneous project schedules and budgets
• Mentor junior designers so they may expand their skills.
• Help plan and participate in user research and testing, and incorporate learnings into designs.
• 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
• Assist in the planning and estimating of the project, participating in broader project coordination and expectation setting.
• Participate in interviewing other UX candidates.

Responsibilities

• Passion for user-centered design, and all things digital (web, mobile, desktop, social)
• Strong knowledge of the latest design and technology trends
• And understanding of user interface design processes and methodology across a variety of devices, and of how web and mobile apps are built
• Ability to rapidly generate multiple design solutions, evaluate their strengths and weaknesses, and improve upon selected designs
• Ability to express yourself clearly and confidently
• Outstanding client management skills
• Experience managing a 3-5 person team of UX, Visual Design, researchers, and developers
• Great wire-framing chops
• Proficiency with UX tools (e.g. InVision, Sketch, and the Adobe Creative Suite), as well as any other UX tools needed to get the job done
• 3-5+ years of experience on a UX team in an agency environment
• 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

Qualifications

• Experience working with large consumer brands
• Excellent writing skills
• Visual design experience
• Technical experience (e.g. coding)
• Formal project management training
• Great Spotify library