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Marriott International · 1 month ago

FLEX Senior Manager - AX Product Designer, Design Systems

Bethesda, MD

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$52.06/hr - $80.96/hr

5+ years exp

Marriott International is the world’s largest hotel company, repeatedly voted one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For®. They are seeking a Senior Manager - AX Product Designer, Design Systems to design and advance the Marriott Associate Design System, enhancing the associate experience across their business.

LeisureTourismTravel

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Manages and facilitates office hours for feedback and follows procedures to propose new elements when necessary

Champions appropriate patterns, components, and styles during user experience design reviews and workshops

Produces sketches, wireframes, personas, journey maps, flows, designs, motion specs, prototypes and/or presentations as needed to communicate experience design and interaction considerations

Provides subject matter expertise on key functional systems to help shepherd strategic initiatives from idea to feasible implementation

Provides subject matter expertise on hotel brands and the Marriott Bonvoy loyalty program to help ensure they are infused correctly and seamlessly throughout digital products

Produces both innovative high-level design concepts / strategy visualizations as well as development-ready designs with specifications

Ensure a quality experience on live digital products by participating in the user acceptance testing process

Uses software including: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite; Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint; Has familiarity with developer tools like Storybook

Keeps skills up-to-date on industry trends and applies new knowledge to job, identifying strategic opportunities for competitive advantages through those findings

Clearly present your work citing industry best practices, qual and quant data to support your decisions

Be a thought partner providing recommendations based on research and data for experience enhancements across all digital touchpoints

Collaborates with a variety of user experience disciplines within the team (UX, UI, Information Architecture, Design System/Standards, User Research, Copywriting) to advance your work

Delivers measures, and improves designs based on quantitative and qualitative feedback using various user research methodologies

Comfortable with multiple qualitative and quantitative research methods, like surveys, usability testing, multivariate testing, A/B testing, etc

Breaks down designs into options/variables for A/B or multi-variate testing

Provides accurate estimates as to needed time to complete work to feed project plans (and therefore personal deadlines)

Meets deadlines once agreed upon

Reports impediments to completing work and meeting deadlines

Provides regular status updates to manager

Successfully manages multiple assignments at once

Accepts critique and critiques work of others in a helpful and professional manner

Communicates in a timely and appropriate manner with teammates

Works independently with minimal supervision, but knows when issues should be escalated to manager

Develops relationships with members of other teams, and leverages those relationships to answer questions

Presents work with clarity and confidence; explains complex matters so that others can understand them

Performs other reasonable duties as assigned by manager

Qualification

Design system expertiseFigmaUX/UI designDocumentation platformsDesign-to-code handoffUser experience researchAgile methodologiesPresentation skillsNegotiation skillsInterpersonal skills

Required

5+ years of relevant experience in UX/UI or digital product design with proven design system expertise

4-year undergraduate degree, with bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience in relevant discipline

Experience in multiple of the following user experience disciplines: user experience (UX), interaction design, and visual design

Experience with major, large-scale global digital apps, web sites, or other digital products

Proven experience with design system is defining and deploying consistent, reusable componentry and patterns across various product portfolio

Well versed in industry best practices for design system documentation and governance process

High expertise in design tools (Figma, tokens-based workflows, documentation platforms like Storybook/Zeroheight) and design-to-code handoff pipelines

Proven experience delivering scalable components and UI patterns across platforms (desktop, mobile web, app, etc.)

Champion design system governance while balancing a visual design and engineering considerations

Promote system-mindset and design system best practices drawn from a variety of disciplines (within and beyond hospitality)

Can balance user, business, and technical needs

Collaborate with designer and developers to ensure consistency across features and platforms while meeting platform-specific needs

Communicate through compelling visuals and deliverables

Demonstrate self-confidence, energy, and enthusiasm in leading and influencing teams

Showcase Strong Presentation, Negotiation, And Persuasion Skills

Thrive in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to simultaneously manage multiple tasks

Preferred

Experience with design systems for enterprise or customer-facing products

You consider yourself a Figma ninja and are super enthusiastic about the latest Figma releases and trends

Expertise in large-scale global digital entities or other digital products within Hospitality/Travel industry

Superior communication and interpersonal skills including discovery facilitation, presentation, and storytelling

Experience influencing partner adoption and making it easy to realize business and development impact

Experience with Agile / SAFE development methodologies

Benefits

401(k) plan

Stock purchase plan

Discounts at Marriott properties

Commuter benefits

Employee assistance plan

Childcare discounts

Coverage for medical, dental, vision, health care flexible spending account

Dependent care flexible spending account

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Accident insurance

Adoption expense reimbursements

Paid parental leave

Employees will accrue paid sick leave

0.0384 PTO balance for every hour worked

Eligible to receive minimum of 9 holidays annually

Company

Marriott International

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Marriott International, Inc.

Founded in 1927

Bethesda, Maryland, USA

10001+ employees

http://travel-brilliantly.marriott.com

H1B Sponsorship

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