User Experience Designer (5198)
About The Position
RUN Studios, and its client partner, a large online retailer headquartered in Seattle, are seeking a User Experience Designer to join for an approximate 7-month project! This position requires 5 days onsite in downtown Seattle. We are seeking a Senior UX Designer to lead customer experience initiatives across a high-traffic e-commerce platform. This role partners closely with product managers, designers, researchers, and engineering teams to deliver intuitive, user-centered experiences across web and mobile. The ideal candidate brings a strong understanding of customer behavior, retail UX best practices, and design systems, and is comfortable leading complex projects, navigating ambiguity, and driving design decisions from concept through implementation.
Requirements
- 6+ years of UX or UI design experience with a strong focus on end-to-end, user-centered design across desktop and mobile.
- Advanced proficiency in Figma and extensive experience with rapid prototyping.
- Demonstrated retail or e-commerce UX experience.
- Strong customer research skills, including forming design hypotheses, reasoning through edge cases, and validating ideas through usability testing or research tools.
- Portfolio demonstrating thoughtful UX solutions and strong visual design skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in design, human-computer interaction, or equivalent professional experience.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and collaboration skills with the ability to drive design reviews and close on requirements independently.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Axure preferred.
- Familiarity with platforms such as Shopify and experience with conversion or abandonment metrics is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Create elegant and intuitive user experiences by balancing user insights, business requirements, and technical constraints.
- Lead planning and strategic phases of large initiatives, including migration projects.
- Rapidly and iteratively produce user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups with detailed visual design specifications for web and mobile.
- Independently deliver UX solutions for problems of large scope and complexity while navigating ambiguity and multiple stakeholder needs.
- Advocate for user-centered design by partnering with researchers to test solutions and by conducting lightweight, scrappy user testing when needed.
- Present design work clearly and confidently to UX, product, engineering teams, and senior stakeholders.
Benefits
- eligible employees have access to medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D benefits, health savings and flexible spending accounts, other telehealth and wellness benefits, a minimum of seven paid holidays per year, accrual of at least 6.5 days (Temporary Employment) to at least 15 days (Regular Employment) of paid time off per year, a 401k plan with company match, discretionary bonuses dependent on company, team or individual performance, and referral bonuses for eligible hired referrals.
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
