UI/UX Director

Rubix Recruiting • Boulder, CO

15d

About The Position

UX / UI Director Lead the User Experience and User Interface Design team. You should be a hands on leader who is just as comfortable mocking up screens and components as mentoring your team. Continually engage with users through structured and unstructured user testing to provide qualitative input to reducing friction for the users. Develop and measure user experience KPIs and work to improve those experiences. Work closely with the Product, Engineering, and QA teams to make sure mockups are developed, understood, and implement in a consistent way.

Requirements

• 3+ years managing UX/UI teams
• 5+ years design experience for a web based SAAS product
• Expert experience with design & UX tools (Axure, Sketch, Adobe Suite, etc)
• Experience with developing, managing and reporting on user testing results
• Experience establishing and running a user group
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience with responsive design
• Experience developing and enforcing a style guide and consistent design patterns
• Comfortable as a hands on contributor to designs, mockups and wire frames
• Thinks holistically about user experience: Understands that user experience is more than just a well-designed screen (or application)
• Able to be a passionate advocate for customers while knowing how and when to compromise
• Experience working in an Agile/Lean development process
• Self-motivated and able to manage their team to meet key delivery timelines

Nice To Haves

• HTML & CSS/SASS experience a plus
• Experience with Material design or other design frameworks a plus

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of UX & UI designers and testers
• Establish user groups, user testing processes and regular feedback mechanisms
• Develop, measure improve user experience KPIs
• Develop and enforce design conventions, standards and patterns
• Work with customers and other stakeholders to research functional and UX requirements

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed