UX Architect II
Do you dream of crafting delightful and groundbreaking digital experiences?
We’re recruiting a UX Architect II to join the team at Cox Automotive. In this role, you’ll envision, plan and lay the UX groundwork for a family of products. You’ll create or modify design systems, establish interaction rules within a product family, evangelize UX principles and more. The right candidate will be metric-sensitive and able to articulate a strategic vision through both documentation, presentation and relationship-building.
Build something beautiful with us. Apply today!
What’s In It for You?
Here’s a sneak peek at the benefits you could experience as a Cox employee:
- A competitive salary and top-notch bonus/incentive plans.
- Professional development and continuing education opportunities.
- The chance to work with fascinating, cutting-edge platforms.
- Exceptional work-life balance, flexible time-off policies and accommodating work schedules.
- Comprehensive healthcare, with multiple options for individuals and families.
- Generous 401(k) retirement plans with company match.
- Inclusive parental leave policies, plus comprehensive fertility coverage and adoption assistance.
What You’ll Do
You’ll plan, design and guide the overall UX interaction design implementation across digital platforms to ensure a usable, familiar and successful experience. You’ll collaborate across other UX organizations and guide interaction designers to create complementary products that form a true ecosystem. Here’s what else you’ll be doing:
- Developing a deep understanding of our customers and business needs by participating in user research activities, including persona development/evangelism, heuristic evaluation and usability reviews.
- Assessing existing information architecture, content and design on an ongoing basis to identify experience gaps and contradictions.
- Creating user stories and flow diagrams, plus defining information hierarchies.
- Protecting the consistency of the overall user interface and ensuring that individual components can be extended and reused.
- Collaborating with technical teams to determine data accessibility and understand technology constraints/advantages for the design structure.
- Examining web analytics to inform overall UX design strategy.
- Helping facilitate the visual design and content of reusable components and the design system.
- Identifying research-based opportunities to create business value and improve UX.
- Championing user needs and product usability while balancing business and technical constraints.
- Articulating rationale behind decisions and how to prioritize interface features.
- Identifying tools, templates and techniques that evolve existing processes.
Who You Are
You can produce user experience documentation like storyboards, user scenarios/tasks/flows, wireframes and prototypes (and you’ve got a portfolio to prove it). An avid learner who is fascinated by human behavior, you stay up to date on the latest trends and research in product design, SEO and web/mobile technologies. You also have:
Minimum:
- A bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 2 years of experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and up to 2 years of experience, or 6 years of experience in a related field.
- A strong knowledge of user-centered design methods, techniques and principles.
- Experience working with teams on large-scale, long-term projects.
- Experience with group facilitation.
- Experience in designing for mobile devices, including responsive design.
- Excellent oral, written and verbal communication skills, as well as interpersonal skills.
- Proficiency with Axure, Figma and Microsoft Office applications.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- The ability to lead and influence without direct authority.
- The ability to establish UX methodology, processes, estimates and deliverables.
- The ability to work on multiple projects with competing priorities simultaneously.
- The ability to make intuitive leaps to hypothesize design solutions.
- The ability to understand the big picture along with expert attention to fine detail.
- The ability to deal with ambiguity and to convincingly articulate ideas and rationale.
- The ability to work across multiple internal business units and companies.
- The ability to work both solo and within a team.
Ready to build a better future at Cox? Apply now!