UX Designer II

The Home Depot • Houston, TX

2d

About The Position

The UX Designer II works with strategists, designers, and researchers to craft end-to-end experiences and identify customer needs. The role solves customer problems through design thinking, ideation, prototyping, user experimentation, interaction and visual design, and iterative usability evaluation. The designer balances user needs with business strategy to create effective, efficient, and engaging products and advocates for customers through actionable user insights and product usability improvements.

In a cross-functional environment, the UX Designer collaborates with researchers, designers, engineers, analysts, product managers, and business and product leaders. The position communicates design ideas and a point of view to guide quality decisions, participates in collecting and synthesizing data, produces UX design artifacts, and tests usability. It typically reports to the User Experience Manager and has no direct reports. Overnight travel is typically required 5% to 20% of the time.

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• At least 2 years of work experience.
• Knowledge, skills, and abilities typically acquired through completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent in a job-related field of study.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, customer focus, and ability to drive results.

Nice To Haves

• 2–4 years of UX experience in an enterprise or retail environment, or a degree in a related field.
• 2–4 years of experience working with agile software development teams.
• Desire to thrive in a fast-moving environment.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a job-related field of study.

Responsibilities

• Communicate ideas and designs to end users and product team members.
• Understand business goals at the feature level and, in planning and strategy activities, at the feature and product levels.
• Collaborate and pair with other product team members to design solutions.
• Participate in data collection and synthesis.
• Provide UX design artifacts and test the usability of the assigned product.
• Partner with Product, Development, and other UX resources.
• Execute on the experience vision and purpose.
• Actively and consistently seek learning opportunities.
• Champion actionable user insights, understand customers, enhance product usability, and help create avenues to delight customers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level