Senior UX/UI Design Lead Job at RealReal inc. in San Francisco

About The Role As a Senior User Experience (UX/UI) Design Lead, you will be a design leader on our team of designers and researchers that empathize with and advocate for our internal users and external customers, connect insights to design strategy, and create new digital interactions and experiences across our web and mobile platforms. This role will focus primarily on the design of proprietary operations interfaces, AI-powered pricing tools, and merchandising tools to enable our organization to deliver an excellent experience to our internal users and ultimately our consignors and buyers, driving value and efficiency for our business. Our designers participate in all parts of the design process, from fielding design research, to shaping strategy, to generating divergent options, prototyping, and iterating based on user and stakeholder feedback. As a senior member of the team, we expect you to take this a step further and drive the end-to-end design process. This starts with crafting the right design brief in partnership with product, engineering, and stakeholders and goes all the way to handing off pixel perfect screens for testing and iteration post production. We’re looking for curious people who are divergent thinkers and confident collaborators. You will seek to understand the why behind what our customers think, say, feel, and do to get inspired, and you will take the initiative to explore and visualize what this could mean for our product. You’ll work with partners and stakeholders from across the company, telling the real stories behind your work to drive consensus, ship meaningful products, and amplify the role of human-centered design within the company. What You Get To Do Everyday Drive end-to-end product and feature design for your squads Collaborate with research to design studies, gain empathy for users’ unmet needs, desires, and aspirations (current and future) Turn insights into actionable strategy to guide your work (e.g. using segmentation, personas, and insights to define a design space; creating customer journey maps where necessary; developing design principles or other frameworks to organize solutioning) Draw interfaces and make prototypes that are informed by customer insights (from pen and paper to interactive prototypes) Share your work with end users, the design team, Product & Tech collaborators, and business stakeholders to get feedback, learn, and iterate Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to bring your work to market Explore and adopt AI tools and new methods that will help us accelerate our workflows and raise the level of quality of our digital experience What You Bring To The Role Minimum Requirements: 7+ years of experience in UX Design, UI Design, Systems design, Interaction Design, Product Design or similar Experience with human-centered design process, starting with user insights, ideating, prototyping, and iterating based on user feedback Interaction design where you’ve made things that are discoverable, comfortable, and give good feedback. Attention to how everything responds before, during, and after 2D interactive prototyping where people can try things with taps, swipes, or clicks Portfolio demonstrating a range of work, from developing new products/experiences to refining things that already exist (can include work that has and has not shipped) Experience designing interfaces across mobile apps and websites, bonus if you’ve designed for and with AI tools Ability to travel up to 5% Compensation, Benefits, + Perks Employee Stock Purchase Plan 401K with Company Match Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance Paid Parental Leave 9 Paid Company Holidays Flexible Time Off (With Manager Approval) Find out more about our Benefits here. The expected salary range for this role is $169,130.00-$182,000.00. To determine starting pay we carefully consider a variety of factors, including primary work location and an evaluation of a candidate’s skills, experience, market demands, and internal parity. Additionally, salary is just one component of TRR’s total rewards package. Depending on role, employees may also be eligible for a bonus program, incentive pay and benefits. The RealReal is the world’s largest online marketplace for authenticated, resale luxury goods, with 37 million members. With a rigorous authentication process overseen by experts, The RealReal provides a safe and reliable platform for consumers to buy and sell their luxury items. We have hundreds of in-house gemologists, horologists, and brand authenticators who inspect thousands of items each day. As a sustainable company, we give new life to pieces by thousands of brands across numerous categories—including women's and men's fashion, fine jewelry and watches, art, and home—in support of the circular economy. We make selling effortless with free virtual appointments, in-home pickup, drop-off, and direct shipping. We handle all of the work for consignors, including authenticating, using AI and machine learning to determine optimal pricing, photographing and listing their items, as well as shipping and customer service. The RealReal is committed to providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or Veteran status. We will consider qualified applicants for a position regardless of arrest or conviction records. At TRR, People Come First. That’s why diversity and inclusion are vital to our priorities as an equal opportunity employer. You can read about our Diversity Equity and Inclusion program here. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. #J-18808-Ljbffr