Senior Ux Designer

ValGenesis now seeks to reinforce its lead position by upping our product’s user experience. To support this, we are seeking a Senior UX Designer to join our global team of UI/UX designers, researchers, and developers.  

This position encompasses all the elements of UX design with a special emphasis on creating a functional design system, which also includes drawing on user research. Our design team ideates solutions, structures information hierarchies, and lays out concepts. This also includes creating UI mockups and prototypes and polishing the aesthetics of the UI. All this is done across rapid iterations in response to user testing.  

The Senior UX Designer will be responsible for playing a vital role in driving the UI/UX initiatives and collaborating with the UX research, product, and engineering teams, and report to the Senior Director of UX.  

Responsibilities

Design 

• Translate business and technical processes into wireframes, mockups, icons, and images that lead to intuitive user experiences on mobile, web, and IoT platforms. 
• Play a vital and leading role in creating the functional Design System for our entire product ecosystem. 
• Apply platform UX style requirements such as material design, iOS Human Interface Guidelines, etc., and document and maintain UX style standards. 
• Design and produce visual assets such as icons, illustrations, and photos as required.  
• Reinforce the brand through a visual language that includes color, type, layout, and motion.  
• Collaborate with UI developers to deliver interactive products as good or better than their mockups. 
• Deliver aesthetics, power, and usability in one package.  

Management 

• Estimate UX design effort. 
• Set targets and track progress against them. 
• Mentor the design team. 
• Coordinate deliverables with product and senior management. 
• Review designs and provide constructive feedback.  
• Coordinate the evolution of the ValGenesis Design Language System.  

Innovation 

• Ideate and innovate with product management and UX research teams during design sprints and whiteboarding sessions.  
• Create innovative design solutions that delight users and accomplish business objectives within engineering and budget constraints. 

Information Architecture  

• Design information hierarchies and structures that align with user models, convey information scent and facilitate information retrieval and understanding. 

Process 

• Rapidly iterate designs based on user feedback and testing.