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Sun Technologies · 13 hours ago

Senior User Experience Designer

United States

Contract

Remote

Senior Level

$70/hr - $70/hr

5+ years exp

Sun Technologies is seeking a Senior User Experience Designer to join their team. The role focuses on end-to-end UX ownership, user-centered research, and collaboration with technical teams to design complex applications. The designer will lead research efforts, develop user journeys, and contribute to a unified design system while advocating for user empathy and effective communication across disciplines.

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Responsibilities

Develop a deep understanding of users, their workflows, and their needs through research and ongoing partnership

Identify target users and help build hypotheses around user needs for projects

Develop and lead research (generative and evaluative) for your team/products, including leading Continuous Discovery interviews with users and leading our end-user working groups

In addition to research, collect other types of data to inform design decisions/solutions (e.g., surveys, analytics dashboards, accessibility reviews)

Lead synthesis sessions with your team, following agile and lean methodologies

Create artifacts to share out design research synthesis and decisions

Analyze business and technical requirements

Create user journeys and flows to capture current and future states of user pathways to influence planning of MVPs and prospective releases

Develop wireframes, interactive prototypes, comps, specifications, and other design documents to communicate design ideas to project teams

Partner with the Accessibility team to ensure designs are compliant

Create and present concepts/deliverables to your working team and our stakeholders

Conduct handoffs to developers through tools like Figma, FigJam, and Zeplin

Contribute to the UX/UI of our foundational BigFuture design system, standards, patterns, and UI elements

Work collaboratively with our Content, Design and Engineering Team (CoDE) to ensure brand and pattern alignment

Strong communicator who takes initiative in talking to users, presenting in research sessions, and effectively sharing findings with the team and stakeholders

Collaborate with the team to promote communication and synchronicity in planning across design, product, and engineering

Contribute to the overall design and UX strategy for our product designs, including feeding into and refining a design system to facilitate a unified experience across all our products

Document and present UX/UI and design updates to stakeholders and users

Collaborate and take direction from multiple stakeholders and disciplines to achieve an impactful experience

Participate and be vocal in agile ceremonies to ensure design needs are met

Nurture a culture of user empathy and deep curiosity that enables us to build simple, intuitive products for our customers

Advocate for consistent design processes, methods, core systems, and patterns

Facilitate whiteboarding sessions, workshops, and brainstorms

Self-manage workload and obtain necessary requirements and acceptance criteria needed to complete work

Coordinate with UX Lead, product leads, design team, and engineers to ensure timely delivery of design artifacts

Help foster an environment for collaboration by partnering with business and other creative units to align our visual design approach with project goals, and the brand

Qualification

Accessibility design principlesEnd-to-end UX ownershipUser-centered research methodsInformation architectureComplex application designWorkflow designInteraction patternsFigmaZeplinCollaboration skillsAdaptabilityCommunication skills