UX Designer II Job at The Home Depot in Atlanta

Overview

At The Home Depot, we get UX; it is baked into our DNA. Now we are expanding our team to drive new initiatives. As a member of the UX team, you will work with other strategists, designers, and researchers to help craft end-to-end experiences and identify customer needs.

You are a designer with a desire to solve interesting and meaty customer problems. You recognize the value of well-crafted design along with the value of imagination and play in building great products within a business environment. You can use design thinking techniques to drive ideation and alignment or bring a paper prototype to your user for quick experiments. You have solid awareness of research best practices and know that research is the foundation toward good design. You can use evaluative approaches to iteratively improve your products. You communicate effectively and share a point of view that guides quality decisions.

You appreciate feedback and support from fellow researchers, designers, engineers, analysts, or product managers in a cross-functional environment. You enjoy collaborative effort and take feedback and input to your UX activities as a means of improving the end result. You are comfortable influencing business leadership as well as product leadership and individual contributors. You are the customer and user advocate, driving innovation by championing actionable user insights, deeply understanding our customers, enhancing product usability, and providing our team avenues to delight our customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Delivery and Execution — Communicates ideas and designs to end users and product team members. Understands business goals at a feature level. Collaborates and pairs with other product team members to design solutions. Participates in data collection and synthesis. Provides UX design artifacts and tests usability of their assigned product.
• Participation in Planning and Strategy Activities — Partners with Product, Development, other UX resources. Executes on the experience vision and purpose. Understands business goals at a feature and product level. Actively and consistently seeks learning opportunities.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports

• This Position typically reports to User Experience Manager.
• This role has 0 direct reports.

Travel Requirements

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Physical Requirements

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position; there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions, there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2-4 years of UX experience in an Enterprise or retail environment or a degree in related field
• 2-4 years of experience working with agile software development teams
• Desire to thrive in a fast-moving environment

Minimum Education

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor s degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor s degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Minimum Years Of Work Experience

• 2

Preferred Years Of Work Experience

• 2

Minimum Leadership Experience

• No previous leadership experience

Preferred Leadership Experience

• No previous leadership experience

Certifications

• None

Competencies

• Action Oriented
• Collaborates
• Communicates Effectively
• Customer Focus
• Drives Results

Seniority level

• Not Applicable

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology
• Industries: Consumer Services