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Amadeus is hiring: Principal UI/UX Designer in Houston

Amadeus, Houston, TX, United States, 77246

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Job Title

Principal UI/UX Designer

About Your Business Area/Department:

Where to fly, when to fly, what to fly...

The art of Network Planning and Scheduling is at the heart of Airlines. It defines what an Airline intends to fly for a specific future period including routes, timing, aircraft assignments, and rotations. At the same time, it must satisfy operations constraints e.g. crew, aircraft maintenance, airport curfew, passenger types (business, leisure, booking habits) and factor uncertain future environment (competition, pandemic evolution). At Amadeus, we want to re-invent the future of Network Planning with "Sky Suite"; the next generation optimization, simulation, and data analytics solutions to help airlines improve their efficiency and profitability.

Summary of the role:

We are looking for an experienced UX/UI Designer to join our talented team in charge of building Network Planning suite of applications. You will work alongside UX/UI Experts and Designers, Software Development Engineers, Business Analysts and QA, using Agile methodology (Scrum and SAFe). You will work in a multicultural environment with colleagues based across the world in USA, Armenia, Columbia and India.

As a UX/UI Designer, you’ll be accountable for the design of the product interfaces and flows based on solutions agreed with the stakeholders (Business Analysts, Product Managers, and the customer themselves).

In this role you’ll:

Create user-interface designs considering usability/UX principles and design best practices.

Collaborate with customers and the project team to translate requirements into functional, user-friendly interfaces.

Running ideas and design workshops where necessary.

Create wireframes and low fidelity mock-ups, drive the review and approval of those designs with both customer and internal stakeholders.

Review and test the delivered software ensuring that the implementation is usable and adheres to user interface design principles.

Analyze the testing of those UIs with customers and feedback into the iterative design process where necessary.

Keep up to date with usability industry trends and best practices and inspire the rest of the project team continually to improve the design of the applications.

Document your solutions, ideas and best practices and tips.

About the ideal candidate:

Education: A degree in UX/UI Design or related field, or with other significant (7+ years) UX industry experience.

Experience as a UX/UI designer. You should be able to demonstrate a portfolio of designs across more than one project.

Strong creativity and visual design skills. Able to present new designs to customers and internal stakeholders. Familiarity with Figma, Sketch, Zeplin or the Adobe product suite.

Aware of low and high-fidelity design practices and experienced in their application.

Experience in designing desktop and web solutions. Ability to maintain design artifacts repository preferably in WPF and React.

Accessibility and responsiveness aware.

Familiarity with end-user testing, observation and analysis.

Familiar with Agile development processes.

Working knowledge of the foundations of engineering principles and how design translates into code.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, great team spirit, taste for coaching/mentoring, multicultural approach, good analytical and conceptual thinking, customer focus.

Experience in the travel industry would be a plus.

Working at Amadeus, you will find:

A critical mission and purpose

- At Amadeus, you will be powering the future of travel and pursuing a critical mission and extraordinary purpose.

A truly global DNA

- Everything at Amadeus is global, from our people to our business, which translates into our footprint, processes, and culture.

Great opportunities to learn

- Learning happens all the time and in many ways at Amadeus, through on-the-job training, formal learning activities, and day-to-day interactions with colleagues.

A caring environment

- Amadeus fosters a caring environment, nurturing both a fulfilling career and personal and family life. We care about our employees and strive to provide a supportive work environment.

A complete rewards offer

- Amadeus provides attractive remuneration packages, covering all essential components of a competitive reward offer, including salary, bonus, equity, and benefits.

A flexible working model

- We want our employees to do their best work, wherever and however it works best for them.

A diverse and inclusive community

- We are committed to leveraging our uniquely diverse population to drive innovation, creativity, and collaboration across our organization.

A Reliable Company

- Trust and reliability are fundamental values that drive our actions and shape long-lasting relationships with our customers, partners, and employees.

Diversity & Inclusion

Amadeus is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition), ancestry, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veterans status, sexual orientation, gender expression, perception, or identity, marital status, mental or physical disability status, or any other protected federal, state, or local status unrelated to performance of work involved.

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