Cox Automotive Inc. is hiring: UX Architect I in Atlanta

UX Architect I

Great UX professionals are intrigued by human behavior: eager to study how people think, their actions and their limitations.

Does this resonate with you? We’re hiring a UX Architect I at Cox Automotive, and you might just be the perfect person for the job. This entry-level role entails helping users achieve goals and complete tasks, translating project goals into interactive experiences and contributing to prototype development. The right candidate will be metric-sensitive, adept at translating interaction design concepts across platforms and able to communicate functional design to delivery teams.

Get the details below and 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

In this role, you’ll develop a deep understanding of customers and business needs by assisting in user research activities, including persona development, heuristic evaluation and usability reviews. You’ll also:

• Lead the assessment of competitive user experiences.
• Identify strategic opportunities for competitive advantage based on findings.
• Examine web analytics to inform user interactions and designs.
• Collaborate with product, design, content, and development teams.
• Facilitate user scenario planning and tasks with Cox Automotive’s product team.
• Translate business requirements into simple, highly usable and compelling interface layouts.
• Create site maps, user flows, wireframes and interactive mock-ups/prototypes (lo/high fidelity).
• Integrate personas/segmentations with related deliverables.
• Utilize the Design System to facilitate a familiar, delightful and efficient user experience.
• Collaborate with technical teams to determine data accessibility and understand technology constraints/advantages for the design structure.
• Ensure developers understand specifications.
• Support usability testing by creating working models of the experience design.
• Create and support the information architecture of navigation, content, etc.
• Champion user needs and product usability while balancing business and technical constraints.
• Articulate rationale behind interface decisions and how to prioritize interface features.
• Identify tools, templates and techniques to evolve existing processes.

Who You Are

An empathetic individual, you can think like our users, deal with ambiguity and make intuitive leaps to hypothesize product design solutions. You also have the following:

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as 4 years’ experience in a related field.
• Excellent oral, written and verbal communication skills, as well as interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of user-centered design methods, techniques and principles.
• Proficiency with UX design tools such as Axure, Figma, Sketch, etc.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• The ability to work on multiple projects with competing priorities simultaneously.
• The ability to understand the big picture along with expert attention to detail.
• The ability to convincingly articulate ideas and rationale.
• A hunger to learn and to stay up to date on the latest trends and research in product design and web/mobile technologies.
• The ability to work both solo and within a team.

Preferred:

• Experience in working with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience with group facilitation.
• Experience in designing for mobile devices (responsive design experience is a plus).

Use your curiosity and talent as a springboard to a fulfilling career at Cox. Apply now!