Job Description :

Job Title: Senior UI Designer

Job ID: 37835

Location: El Segundo, CA 90245

Duration: 24-36+ Months with possible extensions 

Interview Process: Phone/WebEx 

Number of Positions: 1

Candidate should have Online Portfolio.

Candidate required to be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. National

*** DIRECTV ***

*** Remote position

*** Manager wants to stress that this isn’t just a visual designer job as in someone who does digital marketing material. We’re looking for someone with APP DESIGN EXPERIENCE, most likely candidates from other tech companies such as intuit, google, roku, hulu, Netflix etc.

Required Skills:   UI Designer:

Online Portfolio:

Digital marketing exp:

Exp in App Design:

Top 5 Skills / Additional Job Posting Description Details * 

1. Define the visual design strategy for our entertainment products and work with other designers and cross-functional partners to drive consensus across products.

2. Successfully juggle multiple projects spanning in scale and complexity with hands on experience throughout the process, from interactive experiences to visual design guidelines.

3. Design elegant user interfaces and interactions while maintaining a systematic design system and asset library. Consistently design with patterns and a system at large but have the sensibility to break patterns and develop new ones when the solution calls for it.

4. Actively contribute and improve our design system language.

5. Lead the project team and stakeholders to maintain a cohesive design and experience throughout our product, while providing expertise and adaptability.

- Lead your team through reviews and feedback, support the team’s UX/UI growth and raise the capacity, skills, and quality of user-centered design on your team.

- Understand our user base to create visual representation that drives consensus across multiple generations while pushing the envelope of design.

- Operate within a Scaled Agile environment to deliver quality design solutions against aggressive timelines and competing priorities

The UX and Research is a full-service Product Design organization within DIRECTV’s Entertainment Group. We are a collective of designers, researchers, strategists, prototypers, and producers. Together, we discover, define, test, and build the future of entertainment products and home technology that delight both our customers and ourselves by using a human-centered approach to fuel our drive to creatively solve problems.

The Senior UI Designer will be responsible for overseeing user experience and design aspects of our entertainment products. The Senior UI Designer works with the design and product team to develop a cohesive experience throughout our platform in order to increase user satisfaction. Our ideal candidate is responsible for guiding the entirety of the design process through its completion by presenting them to stakeholders and working along developers to ensure accurate implementation. This candidate champions the design process and design patterns to bring together a close-knit point of view on our design practices.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated self-starter who is eager to help shape their own role and contribution. In return, you will be an integral part of the team, helping to develop, define and grow our process and design within DIRECTV.

Roles & Responsibilities:  

Work with team on creative brainstorming, ideation, rapid-prototyping, and other problem-solving with user experience and visual designers, engineers, and other stakeholders on multiple projects.

1) Strong collaboration and alignment with teams responsible for online and mobile experiences ensuring needs me across all media.

2) Design UI comps that reflect sound UX thinking using traditional visual design principles and tools (visual hierarchy, composition, typography, color theory, etc.).

3) Work closely with UX designers and internal user researchers to support usability and focus group test plans and prototype support (paper or interactive prototypes, as appropriate).

4) Strong collaboration skills required to work effectively within and across teams with multiple personality types and cultural backgrounds.

5) Must be able to contribute productively, constructively, and respectfully to debates during solution development. Requires clarity in speech, writing, and presentations to a variety of audiences (ex: engineers, managers, executives).

             

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