Senior UX Designer, Core Apps Team

Company: Vivint
Location: Lehi
Posted on: June 15, 2022

Job Description:

Job Description User Experience Designer Vivint, one of the largest home automation companies in North America, is looking for a dynamic senior user experience designer to join the customer product user experience team. We're a lean, continuous, user-first focused team of designers, software developers, and hardware engineers, producing industry-leading automation, security, and solar energy products and innovative ubiquitous computing solutions in the home.Ever wanted to lock your doors remotely from your iPhone? Turn the thermostat up? Turn the lights off? Watch live video of your home while you're away? What about it happening automatically for you? That's what we do.Come work for a 2 Billion dollar company with a proven track record for growth and success. Come be part of the residential solar power revolution. Help us architect and design the next generation home automation products. Design something that gets used daily by hundreds of thousands of customers and literally save lives.

• Research, analysis, user stories
• prototyping and wire-framing
• interface and graphic design
• interaction design
• usability, user-testing, and validation
• familiar with best practices on web performance and know how to effectively design for modern browser capabilities
• mobile native application design experience
• understanding of web standards and best practices
• bachelor's degree in visual arts, computer-human design, or equivalent experience
• passion for designing user-centric interfaces
• quick and eager learner who stays on top of internet technologies in related space
• ability to be self-motivated and deliver projects on time with minimal supervisionTop responsibilities L eads discovery in identifying which problems to solve . A successful senior designer is able to uncover where we can provide the most value to our customers by quantifying and making cases for which proble ms, if solved, would provide the user and the business with the most value. Goes wide on ideation and narrows to effective solutions via testing, and iteration . After identifying which problems to solve, a successful senior designer will ideate, test, and iterate quickly ... narrowing on highly effective and proven solutions via robust testing. Owns the design of end to end product experience s on the Vivint mobile app . As a senior designer, you will be the point to person for the product you are responsible for. Youll need to know the history and the direction of the product experiences and be able to confidently talk to any question others may have. Collaborates and communicates with their extended product development team. A senior designer collaborates and communicates effectively with team members in engineering, product, and QA to define, design, build, test, deploy, and maintain products that balance user value while also using the app as a promotional tool. Advocates for the user by using data, industry best practices, and their own expertise. As a senior designer, you will ground your insights and concepts with real world data and experience to provide user value that is highly competitive within the product landscape. Designs with the consideration of technical feasibility and product constraints. A senior designer will have a deep understanding of platform and device requirements such as form factors, screen resolutions, pixel density, aspect ratios, interaction needs, cross-functional dependencies and timelines and is able to make the right tradeoff decisions given the product constraints and requirements. Is a significant voice for prioritization of features and bug fixes . A senior designer on our team has a strong voice for prioritization of features and bug fixes. They are customer obsessed and can advocate for delivering user value, working closely with product and engineering to define the right MVP for our upcoming experiences . Additional responsibilities include...
• Contributing to and maintaining the Vivint Design Library
• Designing for accessibility needs
• Surfacing issues proactively that could impact timelines or user experience .
• Design compelling experience s that will excite every one who comes in contact with them .
• Organize, label, and structure content in a way that is understandable for users/players to allow them to find and move through and comprehend the information you re sharing.
• Mentoring more junior designers on your team .
• Designing and moderating your own research initiatives throughout the discover y and design process with the support of the Research and Insights team .
• Defin ing success metrics to test your experiences against once they are in production . Previous experience / qualifications
• Proven ability to partner with Product and Engineering leaders & peers to deliver great experiences
• Well-versed in a broad range of design methodologies
• An outstanding portfolio demonstrating the successful delivery of innovative interface design solutions for mobile and hardware interfaces
• Experience presenting and rationalizing UX design strategy and decisions to diverse audiences using these moments as opportunities to advocate for users, share knowledge and demonstrate design thinking in action.
• A p ortfolio that clearly shows your ability to design pleasant and functional end to end experiences.
• Experience with product discovery and research
• Excellent visual design skills and attention to detail
• Proven experience at all stages of the design process - making wireframes, building prototypes, crafting high-fidelity visual designs, or supporting scaled production efforts.
• Experience with hardware is a plus You'll fit in well if...
• You are passionate about owning a product from start to finish.
• You put people first, ego last .
• Youre not afraid to ask why. A lot.
• You're comfortable with creating definition from ambiguity.
• You are collaborative .
• You are excited about the smart home space and are willing to think about innovative experiences without limits. If you are an active Vivint employee, please apply through Workday by searching "Find Jobs".

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