We are seeking a Senior Web Designer to join our team. In this role, you'll partner with product management, business leaders, and engineering to deliver high-quality designs, workflows, and concepts that will affect business outcomes for multiple user types across a massive digital platform. If you are ready to make a significant impact and tackle huge challenges, we would love to talk to you!
location: Irvine, California
job type: Contract
salary: $52 - 57 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
- Produce new and leverage existing design assets to deliver solutions that help users make data-driven decisions faster and provide a consistent, intuitive experience across multiple personas in complex scenarios.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Design teams to gather requirements, define problems, and deliver a cohesive experience across a large digital platform.
- Manage end-to-end feature design, creating amazing user experiences that delight our users and evolve a platform that is reshaping an industry.
- Rapidly visualize, prototype, and explore multiple product directions to validate hypotheses.
- Interview high-profile users to identify critical business drivers and needs.
- Apply your deep understanding of UX best practices to drive innovation in your products.
- Provide solutions to a variety of complex technical and business matters and collaborate with other designers in a supportive environment.
- Contribute to building out practices and culture across the design organization.
- Champion significant projects, programs, and business initiatives using demonstrated creativity and ingenuity.
qualifications:
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in or related to design, UX, UI, graphic design, human-computer interaction, or other related disciplines (or equivalent experience) and 3+ years of UX/UI product design experience. B2B SaaS experience is preferred, but you must at a minimum be able to work in a highly complex domain.
- Proven ability to translate business and user problems into understandable solutions.
- A demonstrated understanding of user-centered design skills, trends, and disciplines, along with high attention to detail.
- Expert knowledge of design tools like Figma and the ability to work across multiple levels of fidelity.
- Experience working in Agile and/or Lean UX environments.
- Well-rounded presentation skills and verbal and written communication.
- A portfolio that demonstrates high-quality design work with examples of producing clarity from ambiguity.
- Comfort with complexity, and the ability to prioritize and make trade-offs that balance user needs, design quality, and business realities.
skills:
- User Experience (UX) and UI Design Expertise: The core of this role involves producing high-quality designs, workflows, and concepts. This requires a deep understanding of user-centered design principles and the ability to apply them to create intuitive and consistent experiences. Expertise in design tools like Figma is also essential.
- Portfolio of High-Quality Work: A portfolio is explicitly required to demonstrate the ability to translate business and user problems into clear solutions. This is a critical skill for showcasing past work and proving the ability to create clarity from ambiguity.
- Collaborative and Communication Skills: The role requires strong collaboration with cross-functional teams, including product management, business leaders, and engineering. Effective verbal and written communication skills are needed to gather requirements, define problems, and present design concepts.
- Prototyping and Validation: The ability to rapidly visualize, prototype, and explore multiple product directions is a key skill. This includes the ability to validate hypotheses and ensure designs are effective before they are built.
- Comfort with Complexity: This position deals with a large digital platform and multiple user types, often in complex scenarios. The successful candidate must be comfortable with complexity and able to prioritize and make trade-offs that balance user needs, design quality, and business realities.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.
At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com.
Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.
Qualified applicants in San Francisco with criminal histories will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
We will consider for employment all qualified Applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
