About the role
Does complexity, ambition, and creating big visions fuel your designer mind? Can you represent design in both business discussions as well as technical discussions? Then we may have one of the most compelling UX design positions available for you.
We are building products that modernize the old way of doing business, by enabling access to digital marketplaces, AI-driven accounting automation, and best-in-class financial services. As a senior member of the Platform team, you will help define the end-2-end user experience of key areas that impact all users of our platform: collaboration, task management, network, messages, and admin apps.
As part of an international design team, you will be responsible for driving your product team(s) safely through design challenges. This encompasses all phases from initial strategy and product ideation through implementation, launch, and following iterations. This requires you to be experienced in concept generation, creating user journeys, wireframing, prototyping, and delivering implementation-ready designs. Your ability to work with personas, qualitative & quantitative data, do user research with actual and potential end-users will also come handy when creating product hypotheses and validating your designs.
Responsibilities:
- You will partner with product and business owners to translate business strategy into product requirements and UX.
- You will test and validate ideas, designs, & hypotheses through various user testing approaches.
- You will present, rationalize and defend design decisions to stakeholders using your professional experience and the qualitative and quantitative research available.
- You will be part of one or more product teams, each consisting of 3-5 developers, a product manager and you, the UX designer.
- You will coordinate with designers and developer teams in other offices in the U.S. and Europe.
- You will work with other designers to establish platform design principles and extend our design guidelines.
- You will be working with your teams' developers to make sure the teams provide a world class quality of user experience.
Qualifications
- You have experience designing for ecommerce, marketplaces, and complex B2B workflows with multiple personas.
- You have 7-10 years professional experience designing web and mobile applications.
- You have a structured and analytical approach to your work, you are organized, can work to a defined process and you actually have a plan for reaching the finish line.
- Solid proficiency with the latest design tools (Figma, Sketch, Framer, Principle etc.)
- Strong understanding of UX/UI principles, experience working with & contributing to design systems.
- You have experience and success in working with teams of developers and product managers building products/services with complex requirements.
Additional Information
We value diversity at our company. Tradeshift prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religious or religious creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state, or local laws. All your information will be kept confidential according to GDPR guidelines.
