NRG Energy · 11 hours ago
Sr UX Designer II
Utah, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior LevelNRG Energy, through its subsidiary Vivint Smart Home, is focused on creating smarter, safer, and more sustainable homes. The Sr UX Designer II will lead the design of end-to-end product experiences for cross-camera functionalities, collaborating closely with product development teams to ensure user value and business objectives are met.
EnergySolarWind Energy
Responsibilities
Leading discovery to help identify which problems to solve & where to innovate. A successful senior designer will uncover where we can provide the most value to our customers by quantifying and making cases for which problems, if solved, would most benefit the user and the business
Going wide on ideation and delivering validated solutions via testing, and iteration. After identifying which problems to solve, a successful senior designer will ideate, validate, and iterate quickly... narrowing on highly effective and proven solutions via robust testing
Owning the design of end-to-end product experiences on the infrastructure squad. As a senior designer, you will be the point person for cross-camera experiences. You’ll need to know the history and the direction of your product experiences and be able to confidently talk to any questions others may have. In collaboration with your PM and Engineering lead, you’ll shape the direction of your product, both near term and far into the future. This includes creating success metrics up front, continuously testing against these metrics, designing & handing off your experience, testing developed work, and following up on your launched products
Proactively collaborating and communicating with your product development team. A senior designer collaborates and communicates effectively with team members in engineering, product, design and QA to define, design, build, test, deploy, and maintain products that balance user value, business value and technical feasibility
Advocating for the user by using data, industry best practices, and your own expertise to enhance cross-camera experiences. As a senior designer, you will ground your insights and concepts with real world data and experience to provide user value that is competitive within the product landscape
Designing & making tradeoffs 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
Following up on launched products to prove your experiences were successful. In collaboration with your PM, you will be responsible for validating designed/developed products have met or exceeded your success metrics
Contributing to and maintaining the Vivint Design Library
Managing an asset library
Designing for accessibility needs
Surfacing issues proactively that could impact timelines or user experience
Designing compelling experiences that will excite everyone who comes in contact with them
Creating customer journey maps based on research in collaboration with your product squad
Being extremely detail oriented, using the design library appropriately and delivering polished design experiences
Organizing, labeling, and structuring 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
Prototyping and testing early and often
Designing and moderating your own research initiatives throughout the discovery and design process with the support of the Research and Insights team
Defining success metrics to test your experiences against... both in the design phase as well as in production
Following up on launched products/experiences to determine if your product success metrics are being hit
Being accountable and highly communicative with your team
Qualification
Required
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 embedded interfaces, mobile and hardware interfaces
Experience presenting and rationalizing UX design strategy and decisions to diverse audiences using these opportunities to advocate for users, share knowledge and demonstrate design thinking in action
A Portfolio that clearly shows your ability to design pleasant and valuable 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, and supporting scaled production efforts
Preferred
Experience with hardware is a plus
Company
NRG Energy
NRG Energy is an integrated power generation and supply firm that offers offsite solar, wind power, and smart grid retail services.
Founded in 1989
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.99BKey Investors
Public Utility Commission of Texas
2025-09-24Post Ipo Debt· $4.9B
2025-08-04Post Ipo Debt· $216M
2024-10-16Post Ipo Debt· $1.88B
Leadership Team
Lawrence S Coben
President, CEO and Chair of the Board
Anne C Schaumburg
Lead Independent Director
Recent News
Business Wire
2026-01-24
2026-01-17
Company data provided by crunchbase