Senior UX Designer

We are looking for Senior UX Designer for our client in Burbank, CA

Job Title: Senior UX Designer

Job Location: Burbank, CA

Job Type: Contract

Job Description:

Pay Range: $85hr - $90hr

Responsibilities:

• 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:

• Advanced knowledge in Figma.
• Main tool and environment for design work.
• Will be used for layout, prototyping, and communicating visual intent.
• Designing from and contributing to Design Libraries.
• Excellent visual design skills – shown in Portfolio.
• Want to see engaging design and problem-solving approach in candidate work.
• Many of our products are data-heavy, candidate portfolio should include examples of how candidate think of data- and task-centric interfaces.
• Information and Data Synthesis Experience.
• Making visual or other representations of data to communicate with stakeholders and clients.

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience in designing Enterprise products.
• Experience in software design and development.
• Background in Media or Entertainment.
• Branding experience.
• 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:

• User-Centered Mindset: A passion for understanding and advocating for the end user throughout the design process.

Communication Skills:

• The ability to present complex data and findings in a clear and compelling way to stakeholders at all levels.
• Verbally, visually and in written form.
• Able to communicate with and build trust-based relationships across different functions and teams.
• Analytical Thinking: Strong ability to interpret data, find patterns, and generate insights from research findings.
• Ability to work independently.
• As a Lead Product Designer, candidate are expected to be able to quickly ramp up on project needs and work independently and without supervision.
• Candidate are comfortable in ambiguous situations where candidate need to define needs iteratively and continuously and can flex as new information is presented to candidate.