Senior UX Designer

Department: UX

Employment Type: Full time

Location: East Coast, US

About Amplience

About now, you’d expect us to tell you what Amplience does.

Well, we don’t do the expected.

Instead, we want to tell you what we believe in: Freedom.

Because Freedom is everything that Amplience stands for. It’s in the way we work, the way we think, the way we empower our customers.

And if you choose to join us (we’d be honored) you’ll have the Freedom to work however and wherever you want.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, Amplience is a commerce experience platform that takes the heavy lifting out of digital content, giving you the Freedom to create digital experiences without limits.

We already work with over 400 leading retails brands and counting, including the likes of Crate & Barrel, Traeger Grills, Ulta Beauty, Coach, Otto Group, GAP, Currys, Argos and The Very Group.

We’ve got over 200 employees across the world, with $180 million of investment behind us and huge, exciting growth plans ahead. And we’d love you to come along for the ride.

Are you in?

What to Expect

This role is a key part of the team responsible for the design of all Product UX at Amplience. We are looking for an inquisitive individual with a blend of creative, analytical and technical skills. Someone who gets a kick from developing delightful and useful solutions that address customer needs, and who is driven to see ideas through from concept stage to code deployment.

Key Responsibilities

Leverage user insights to design rough wireframes, refine them through design critique and usability testing, and produce polished, production-ready design specs and interactive prototypes
Analyze quantitative and qualitative UX research and discovery activities
Collaborate with Product and Engineering colleagues to translate UX requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria
Provide timely UX design input to agile engineering sprints
Conduct UAT of coded UI
Assist with building and maintaining a Product Design System and component libraries
Support feature launch activities, including:
- Coding in-app engagements
- Implementing feature adoption measurement
- Documentation, etc.
Advocate user-centred design principles to wider business
Contribute to build shared UX knowledge, processes and best practise
Additionally, the role provides opportunities for:
- Participation in regular design critiques
- Attendance of UX & design-related conferences
- Professional development (technical and soft skills)
- Mentoring fellow team members

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

Minimum 3 - 5 years professional design practice
Enterprise B2B product design experience
Ability to clearly demonstrate creative decision-making process
Experience of atomic design systems
Knowledge of heuristic principles of design
Ability to multi-task, context switch and manage own work to
deadline
Rigorous with high attention to detail
Experience of designing to WCAG web accessibility standards
Familiarity with web technologies (HTML, CSS, React, etc.)
Essential software skills:
- Figma
Plus, experience of:
- Adobe CC
- Miro (or similar virtual whiteboarding tool)
- Storybook (or similar framework)
Qualification: Batchelors Degree or higher in a related discipline

Benefits

So what’s in it for you? Aside from using some great technologies and working with smart friendly people who are very generous with their knowledge, we have a great set of benefits to recognise everybody’s individual needs.

Benefits for Amplience US employees are provided by Insperity. Full information available on request. Our benefits include:

Medical, Dental & Vision
Paid sick leave
Employee assistance program
Voluntary life Insurance
Enhanced family leave
401k with company match
Adoption assistance

Benefits may vary by position and eligibility rules. If you have any questions please contact the Talent team.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $75,000-$85,000 + bonus + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

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About Amplience

Amplience is an API-first, headless CMS and DAM in one: a unified platform for commerce content that does everything you need it to. Organize, find and enrich all your assets from a central library. Optimize and automate your product media, images and videos.

Plan, schedule, produce and deliver customer experiences. Do it all from the same platform.

And do more of it. Better, and faster, than ever.

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