Job Title: User Experience Designer - Senior
Job ID: 37543
Location: El Segundo, CA 90245
Duration: 24-36+ Months with possible extensions
Interview Process: Phone/WebEx
Number of Positions: 2
Candidate should have Online Portfolio
** DIRECTV POSITIONS **
Candidate required to be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. National
*** Local Candidates are ideal, but we will consider anyone willing to work Pacific Time zone. Role is remote.
*** Hours are 9-5 PST. OT on rare occasion must be pre-approved by mgr.
Required Skills:
User Experience Designer:
Online Portfolio:
OmniGraffle/Sketch/Figma:
Prototyping (Principal/Unity/Figma/A e XD):
Agile:
Streaming product experience (a plus):
Top 5 Skills / Additional Job Posting Description Details *
Product UX experience
UI experience, in house a plus
Ability to present and critique work
Streaming product experience a plus
Experience with OmniGraffle, Sketch, Figma
Requirements:
• 5+ years of UX/UI design. In-house is preferable but will consider the right candidates coming from agency-side.
• Portfolio of original and breakthrough work with demonstrated documentation of those experiences.
• Experience working in highly collaborative team environment.
• Passion for evangelizing designs through strong communication skills and stakeholder management.
• Experience working cross-functionally in an agile setting with product and engineering.
• Possess high-level problem-solving skills within complex systems.
• Proficiency in UX/UI design tools such as Figma & Sketch.
• Prototyping experience with Principal, Unity, Figma or A e XD.
• Strong attention to detail and proven track record of complete end to end designs.
• Bachelor's degree in human-computer interaction, design, or equivalent degree or professional experience.
Roles & Responsibilities:
1) Collaborate and innovate alongside UX/UI designers, ideators and prototypers to create best in class interactive products.
2) Define, execute, and iterate on visual and experience design patterns, flows, and interactions for the DIRECTV brand and product initiatives across all screens.
3) Execute at all levels of the design process, from early sketches and low-fidelity prototypes to design specifications, user acceptance testing, and implementation support.
4) Partner with content, development, and product teams to create new products and features support and enhance cross-platform experiences and strategies.
5) Help to foster a fun, collaborative, and supportive culture in which we make career-defining work.
• Utilize user-centered design methodologies to design intuitive and desirable products that incorporates business requirements, customer research findings and user behavior metrics.
• Successfully juggle multiple projects spanning in scale and complexity with hands on experience throughout the process, from user research to implementation with little guidance from supervisors.
• Proficiently produce & deliver comprehensive use cases, wireframes, user flows, prototypes, visual comps, animations, and design specifications.
• Present & iterate design solutions and give thoughtful consideration to feedback incorporating your learnings into subsequent iterations of design.
• Advocate for users in fast-pace agile environment with the goal of maintaining a high design quality while meeting business needs and honoring technical capabilities.
• Operate within a Scaled Agile environment to continuously deliver incremental value to our customers but also look ahead to craft an obtainable future vision.
• Develop and maintain detailed design specifications and patterns. Help evolve our deliveries while reinforcing consistent design patterns for reusable, systematic design.
• Create multiple insight driven solutions to the same problem that range in scale to solve for immediate experience needs while building toward an ideal future vision.