LeadStack
UX/UI Designer - Senior Job at LeadStack in San Francisco
LeadStack, San Francisco, CA, US, 94199
Job Description
Overview
- Salesforce requires a Senior UI/UX Designer who will be responsible for designing experiences that bring inspiration, fun, clarity, and innovation to the events web experience. The Senior UI/UX Designer will work on the Salesforce Events Website that enables both live and on-demand event experiences. The website enables our attendees to discover, learn, register, attend, and engage with event content. The experiences that the Senior UI/UX Designer creates will improve discoverability, drive engagement, increase on‑demand viewership, and boost organic traffic. The Senior UI/UX Designer will discover, ideate, conceptualize, prototype, test, and specify new elements of the experience, while contributing to the design system.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver new and enhanced user flows, page patterns, molecules, and components.
- Communicate design goals and outcomes with various stakeholders to build a shared understanding.
- Collaborate with team members from various disciplines including user research, product management, events strategy, accessibility, engineering, brand creative design, and copywriting teams.
- Perform competitive/comparative analysis, uncovering new design inspiration.
- Design micro‑interactions that bring our brand to life.
- Create high quality UX deliverables to communicate the design, which may include user flows, wireframes, high‑fidelity prototypes, and detailed design specs (while taking advantage of developer tools for efficient handoff).
- Translate experimentation and research outcomes into useful, usable, and elegant design solutions
- Ensure all designs are accessible and inclusive.
- Ship high quality implementations by pairing closely with QA and developers
- Deeply understand and translate the brand to digital event experiences.
Experience / Skills
- Proven experience as a UX/UI designer, with a strong portfolio showcasing your design work for web and mobile applications, with an emphasis on interaction design.
- Preferred 7+ years of UX/UI design, with a proven record of leading websites and/or products from conceptualisation to market success.
- Eye for modern design that produces visually appealing and intuitive interfaces
- Ability to leverage and expand upon well-established brand assets and styles
- Deep understanding of user‑centered design methods and standard processes
- Ability to excel in a fast‑paced, collaborative, agile environment, and meet tight deadlines
- Ability to generate design concepts even when faced with ambiguity and aggressive timelines
- Self‑starter with the ability to produce results independently as well as part of a team
- Strong communication skills and active listening ability
- Adept at fostering relationships with core and cross‑functional teams
- Utilizes data, including analytics and user research, to inform decisions and refine product iterations
- Ability to distill complex problems into clear and concise goals and solutions.
- Practices systems thinking and advocating for holistic solutions, considering individual features within the context of the overall user flow.
- Expert knowledge of current design tools such as Figma and ability to quickly learn new tools as they emerge
- Experience in developing globally‑reaching software, universally designed for users of diverse languages and abilities.
- Possesses knowledge of WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 standards and applies them across all designs.
- Applies accessibility instructions via annotations in Figma or through code examples.
- Understands the effects of common technical constraints such as performance, platform, SEO and framework on accessibility, and vice versa.
- Is familiar with various assistive technologies.
- Selects and verifies colors to ensure sufficient and accessible contrast.
- Uses proper HTML roles and ARIA labels to support effective screen reader behavior.
- Ensures the entire interface can be navigated with a keyboard or switch device.
- Follows mobile accessibility guidelines so touch targets, gestures, and text remain easy to use and read.
- Understands how to design motion that respects reduced‑motion settings and avoids causing discomfort.