Senior User Experience Designer Job at PowerToFly in Chicago

Senior User Experience Designer We help Travelers go places with relevant media products that solve Traveler problems. We follow the natural form and function of the site, making the ads feel like a natural part of the experience, while enabling Partners to achieve their advertising objectives through proven tactics that deliver measurable results. Our suite of products, tools, and analytics aim to help our Partners inspire, engage, and convert Travelers worldwide. In This Role, You Will: Lead collaborative efforts to define and frame complex product concepts or needs with peer roles and generate multiple potential compelling solutions to advance the product direction. Negotiate for the Experience Design (XD) team's priorities considering both long-term strategy and direction and contributes to building experience roadmaps for team. Contribute to the development of both business metrics and experience success metrics, promoting harmony and alignment between them. Actively collaborate with PMs to implement highest value improvement opportunities ascertained from customer and market insights that help users connect more effectively with products. Analyze and synthesize complex research and test findings to identify novel insights, considering multiple sources of information before drawing conclusions. Appropriately weigh research and test findings against other data points (e.g., technical, business) to make informed design decisions and determine the right solution. Design user interactions that optimize user engagement, product performance, and business impact. Find and implement creative solutions that enhance accessibility and inclusivity to address diverse user needs. Use awareness of visual, interaction, and UI design trends to create innovative design concepts and narratives, adapting the design process as-necessary to accomplish goals. Define simple, elegant, trustworthy experiences and hold the team accountable to a high quality bar. Collaborate strategically with developers to ensure seamless implementation and understand the nuance between hard tech-constraints and opportunities to challenge conventions. Demonstrate expertise in utilizing latest design tools, technologies, and best-practices. Contribute reusable and scalable components to the design system, including inventing new components, and drives consistency in brand experience across all touchpoints. Comprehensively evaluate the system of connections and the library of tools and methodologies available to arrive at the optimal solution. Convincingly communicate narratives through storytelling, lead cross-functional collaboration, and influence decision-making and senior stakeholders. Establish processes and facilitate rituals for both giving and receiving feedback within the XD group and across peer groups, and actively celebrate team successes. Minimum Qualifications: Degree in User Experience Design or a related design field, or equivalent professional experience. 8+ years of professional experience working in User Experience Design or a related design field. Experience translating product requirements into design strategy and then acting on that strategy to deliver proposed design solutions which meet those requirements. Experience mapping customer journeys and leveraging user stories and personas to inform design strategy. Experience crafting design deliverables at various fidelities, including wire frames, mockups, and prototypes. Experience leveraging design systems and shared component libraries to ensure consistency and velocity. Experience collaborating with a range of diverse stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Content, and Research. Ability to work successfully through high levels of ambiguity. Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. Strong attention to design and visual detail. Knowledge of current design tools and software. A portfolio showcasing design skills representative of your work at each stage of a product life cycle, from conception to release, that details the team, thought processes, successes, and pivots along the way. Preferred Qualifications: Experience working across multiple devices, webviews and browsers. Experience partnering with UX Researchers and leveraging research insights to inform design decisions. Experience in designing for human diversity (internationalization, localization, accessibility, etc.) Experience thoughtfully leveraging emergent AI tools to streamline design processes without compromising quality. Experience designing for agentic platforms and tools. Experience working in advertising. Experience presenting to executive audiences. The total cash range for this position in Chicago is $161,000.00 to $225,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $257,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role. The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $173,000.00 to $242,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role. Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future. Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits. Accommodation requests If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request. Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization. #J-18808-Ljbffr En Español: Diseñador Senior de Experiencia de Usuario Ayudamos a los viajeros a ir a lugares con productos de medios relevantes que resuelvan los problemas de los viajadores. Seguimos la forma natural y la función del sitio, haciendo que los anuncios se sientan como una parte natural de la experiencia, al tiempo que permiten a los socios alcanzar sus objetivos publicitarios a través de tácticas probadas que proporcionan resultados medibles. Nuestro conjunto de productos, herramientas y análisis tienen como objetivo ayudar a nuestros socios a inspirar, involucrar y convertir a los viajeros en todo el mundo. En este papel, usted: Dirigirá esfuerzos colaborativos para definir y enmarcar conceptos o necesidades complejas de productos con roles de pares y generar múltiples soluciones potencialmente convincentes para avanzar en la dirección del producto. Negociar para el diseño de experiencia (XD) prioridades del equipo considerando tanto la estrategia y la dirección a largo plazo y contribuye a la construcción de mapas de ruta de experiencia para el equipo. Contribuir al desarrollo de las métricas de negocio y las metricas de éxito de la experiencia, promoviendo la armonía y la alineación entre ellas. Colaborar activamente con los PMs para implementar las oportunidades de mejoramiento de valor más alto que se obtienen de los conocimientos del cliente y del mercado que ayudan a los usuarios a conectar más eficazmente con los productos. Los empleados en este papel tienen el potencial de aumentar su salario hasta $257,500.00, que es la parte superior de la gama, basado en el desempeño continuo, demostrado y sostenido en el papel. El rango total de efectivo para este puesto en Seattle es de $173,000.00 a $242,500.00. Todos los solicitantes calificados recibirán consideración para el empleo sin importar la raza, el color, la religión, el género, la identidad de género o la expresión, la orientación sexual, el origen nacional, la genética, la discapacidad, la edad o el estatus de veterano.