Hybrid Senior UX Designer

at Gartner

• Job title: Senior UX Designer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $94,000 - $134,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Stamford, United States

About the role

• Senior UX Designer at Gartner defining product strategy and user experience for BuySmart. Collaboration with engineers, product managers, and designers to create world-class SaaS products.

Responsibilities

• Conduct user research and translate findings into actionable design outcomes such as user flows, customer journey maps, and wireframes.
• Design low and high fidelity mockups and build prototypes, iterating solutions based on user feedback.
• Maintain and evolve the design system, including writing component specifications and defining accessibility standards.
• Create high fidelity mockups, write JIRA tickets, and assist with acceptance testing (quality assurance).
• Collaborate closely with remote designers, engineers, and product managers to assess feasibility and deliver exceptional user experiences.
• Distill complex B2B processes and tasks into simple, elegant user experiences.
• Advance design concepts from sketches and wireframes to pixel-perfect designs and shipped products.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience spanning the product design lifecycle with a high-growth SaaS company
• Proven experience designing and shipping SaaS applications that help companies manage complex processes in an elegant way
• Deep expertise in Figma or equivalent design software for mockups and prototyping
• Experience delivering responsive web designs
• Experience working directly with developers to assess the feasibility of proposed designs
• A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), human computer interaction, planning and conducting user research, user testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns
• Experience using a design system, ideally helping define and maintain components
• Exceptional portfolio demonstrating relevant skills in product areas such as SaaS or B2B marketplaces
• Creative, customer-obsessed thinker who thrives in a collaborative environment and enjoys solving customer problems
• Ability to identify acute customer pain points and translate them into specific designs, even when articulated as broad concepts

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous paid time off policy
• Charity match program
• Group Medical Insurance
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Professional development and unlimited growth opportunities
• 401k match up to $7,200 per year
• Opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount