What are the responsibilities and job description for the UX Design Technologist position at Qualtrics?
At Qualtrics, we create software the world's best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.
When you join one of our teams, you'll be part of a nimble group that's empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the microphone and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won't have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they'll
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UX Design Technologist
Why We Have This Role
This role is essential for evolving and scaling our UX tools, processes, and methodologies, ensuring that we not only meet current product needs but also anticipate future demands in a rapidly evolving design and technology landscape.
By integrating a user-centered and technology-informed approach, the Principal Design Technologist will play a crucial role in creating intuitive, efficient, and engaging UX tools and best practices that empower our product design teams across Qualtrics. This includes leveraging and improving the design system as a key component of our tooling strategy.
This position fosters a collaborative environment where design technologists work closely with designers, engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders, facilitating innovative solutions that reflect our commitment to teamwork and shared goals.
This role will directly influence the efficiency and scalability of our product development by enhancing and expanding our UX tooling, thereby improving our competitive edge in the Experience Management category. As part of a nimble, high-functioning team, the Principal Design Technologist will have the opportunity to take strategic risks, learn from challenges, and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and professional growth within Qualtrics.
How You'll Find Success
- Develop a long-term UX-tooling strategy that anticipates user needs, design trends, and technological advancements over the next 1-2 years, fostering innovative and sustainable solutions.
- Actively engage with designers, engineers, and product teams to gather insights and feedback, using this information to identify UX team process and tooling gaps, opportunities for improvement, and areas for expansion that enhance overall product quality and developer experience.
- Bridge the gap between design and engineering by collaborating closely with front-end engineers to explore new interaction paradigms and fluid design possibilities. Identify areas where current technologies may be limiting our design vision and work together to find innovative solutions, accelerating the adoption of new technologies and patterns.
- Leverage new insights and AI to drive maximum UX tool usage and efficiency across all platforms, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and performance. This includes optimizing the design system to be a core component of this efficiency.
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What You Should Know About This Team
The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model : Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple : we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week, work where you want, owning the integration of work and life.
Qualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.
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Qualtrics is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Qualtrics will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and / or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please let your Qualtrics contact / recruiter know.
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For full-time positions, this pay range is for base per year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, education, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be included in an employment offer, in addition to a range of medical, financial, and other benefits, based on eligibility criteria.
Washington State Annual Pay Transparency Range $166,000—$300,000 USD
Salary : $166,000 - $300,000
