Sr UI & UX Designer

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About the Team:
We are seeking an experienced and passionate Senior User Experience Designer to join the team responsible for ensuring a seamless overall user experience across our product suite. The candidate will help design for one or more cross-cutting areas of our suite that impact the overall user experience. We are passionate about building products at scale that help employers become great places to work.

About the Role:
UKG is looking for an experienced and passionate User Experience Designer that advocates for User Centered Design while connecting our users with the value they seek. The candidate will be responsible for the overall usability and quality of one or more UKG products or features.

We are looking for individuals who have a passion for design and a keen eye for details. They possess extraordinary UX/UI design skills and a proven experience of applying user-centered design principles. While exercising a good eye for aesthetics, they can grasp and distill user problems and translate them into delightful and engaging solutions.

As part of this role you work closely with key stakeholders to clearly identify the scope of the design work, the requirements and use cases; pitch concepts, present designs and advocate for the user experience across the organization.

• Collaborating with User Researchers, Product Managers, Business Analysts and Engineering partners to articulate and refine product requirements. Contributing to product-level design discussions, workshops, decision-making and documentation that support both user goals and business strategy
• Providing product teams with clear and actionable design guidance in the form of workflows, sketches (at a wide range of fidelity), mockups, wireframes, prototypes, etc.
• Creatively applying the principles and standards of our Design System in your practice, while contributing to its growth and evolution
• Testing concepts, performing task and user analysis, and assisting with user acceptance testing
• Delivering high-quality, well-documented work that is aligned to and synchronizes with your collaborators
• Champion customer-centric, responsive/adaptive design methodologies by Architecting, Designing and Supporting new interfaces/experiences
• Prototyping that succinctly illustrates hierarchy and navigation

Basic Qualifications
• 3-5 years work experience with a focus on product and UX/UI design across a variety of platforms including web, mobile & tablets
• 3-5 years of experience with industry-standard design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, InVision)
• Experience working in an Agile development environment
• A passion for design and a great eye for detail

Preferred Qualifications
• Degree in Human Factors, Engineering, Design, Graphic Design, Media Arts or similar
• Strong problem-solving and design thinking skills and the ability to think creatively to overcome design challenges.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively articulate design concepts and rationale to stakeholders at all levels.

Where we're going

UKG is on the cusp of something truly special. Worldwide, we already hold the #1 market share position for workforce management and the #2 position for human capital management. Tens of millions of frontline workers start and end their days with our software, with billions of shifts managed annually through UKG solutions today. Yet it's our AI-powered product portfolio designed to support customers of all sizes, industries, and geographies that will propel us into an even brighter tomorrow!

UKG is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace, including the recruitment process.

Disability Accommodation

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