DESCRIPTION:
One of the world’s largest apparel, footwear and accessories companies, is looking for a Visual Designer to help brands push the envelope on and across a broad gamut of touchpoints from web to mobile to store to call center. The design team is driving a customer first mindset within the organization with a design centric methodology focused on big ideas and rapid iteration
This hands-on role allows one to craft the work and enable others to deliver high quality solutions. Designers work closely with the product owners, developers, researchers, and design team to create the next generation of digitally enabled customer experiences in retail. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Powerful impulse to improve existing designs, invent new experiences, and perform better than competition.
• Build a measurable product vision with your team that produces results.
• Connect people across the organization to align on a common opportunity space and facilitate idea generation.
• Demonstrate to others ‘how’ and ‘why’ design decisions are made.
• Develop new visual systems or enhance significant areas of visual design.
• Demonstrate mastery of visual design and can come up with multiple solutions for a specific platform or design challenge.
• Champion standards and consistency across design teams.
• Execute high-quality deliverables, such as page designs and high-fidelity prototypes where visual design is extremely close to being brand and accessibility standards compliant, spot illustrations and icons.
• Confidently presents work and can articulate the rationale behind it.
• Able to identify most common design flaws and usability problems.
• Collaborates with design team, business partners, and product/development partners to help define project scope and timeline for project plans and deliverables.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• 3-5+ years of UX experience including expertise in, and exposure to a subset of the following activities:  (in order of preference)
  • motion design
  • visual design
  • interaction/information design
  • front end development
  • user research
  • content strategy
  • design thinking
• 3-5+ years on agile and/or Lean UX teams delivering value in digital products
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and teamwork skills
• Prior experience working with large development teams and legacy systems
• Prior experience with client management or handling big stakeholder teams from prominent brands
• Familiarity with commonly used tools in design, including:
  • Figma
  • Adobe Creative Suite
• Ecomm, retail experience preferred.
• Resourceful and work consultatively with partners to determine if and which research methods are most appropriate for the problem at hand.
• Growth mindset and enjoy learning and growing your knowledgebase and skills.
• Challenge traditional assumptions about UX Design and Research – seeking out, inventing, and testing new approaches and technologies.