Principal UX Designer

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Job Summary:

A Principal UX Designer I takes on difficult and complex creative problems and solves them. She/he leads the design strategy and creative toolkit for multiple businesses or product lines. She/he is an expert user of a number of design tools. She/he mentors and trains the design
community.
Responsibilities:
Customer (or User) Focus

• Deeply understands customer use cases and knows how to drive added clarity when needed.

• Deeply understands competitor product set and strategy and how it influences customer decisions.

• Partners with data scientist to better understand customer needs.
Creative Problem Solving

• Targets the 'wicked problems' of the organisation.

• Identifies if we are addressing the right problem with a thorough analysis of the brief.

• Applies a highly skilled level of critical and design thinking.

• Independently identifies innovative creative solutions.

• Iterates and tests solution to check it solves the problem.

• Shares and promotes learnings that drive forward the creative direction of the organisation.
Product Design

• Leads and drives the UCD vision for the most complex problems.

• Looks beyond the current release cycle and explores future scenarios.

• Works with UX Researcher to understand the user needs, making proactive use of insights to set design principles.

• Defines and evangelizes the interaction patterns that become key drivers of the UI Brand of the company.

• Defines user experience for the portfolio and execute strategic user research.

• Helps to define the product strategy.

• Communicates and evangelizes the importance of real customer engagement within product development.
Data Driven Analysis & Testing

• Extracts most relevant data to offer a unique UX research strategy.

• Mentors other UX researchers in data driven analysis and testing.

• Identifies gaps where data is needed and introduces new analytical tools.

• Regularly oversees the testing of design work.

• Presents findings of data driven analysis and testing to guide the organisation.
Technical Skills

• Expert knowledge of the tech stack of the organisation.

• Power user of design and protoyping software (Axure, Sketch, Invsion).

• Is a key point of contact for product and tech teams.

• Offers masterclasses to train other designers.

• Produces pixel perfect designs across all platforms.

• Trials and introduces new tools to the organisation.

Competencies:

Personal Capability
Practices Self-Development

• Models self-development and supports others to take development actions

• Creates an atmosphere of continual improvement, in which self and others are encouraged to exceed the expected results

• Seeks out high-level sponsors and mentors

• Seeks out future career moves and job assignments
Solves Problems and Analyzes Issues

• Identifies and highlights new trends, potential problems and opportunities early

• Effectively coaches others on how to analyze information to solve problems

• Encourages and coaches others to seek alternative ways to solve complex problems
Innovates

• Actively contributes to team culture of innovation

• Focuses innovative effort on highest impact issues and areas

• Encourages and supports others to share new ideas

• Is willing to take calculated risks

• Learns quickly from success and failure and effectively applies learning
Interpersonal Skills
Communicates Powerfully and Prolifically

• Delivers presentations clearly and with high impact

• Develops a trusted 2-way communication interface between the team and stakeholders

• Provides a definite sense of direction and purpose

• Provides people with a clear understanding of how their work fits within a wider organisation
Collaboration and Teamwork

• Promotes a high level of cooperation between all members of the work group

• Keeps team informed of all relevant information affecting the organisation, team members and their work

• Achieves objectives requiring a high level of cooperation from people in other parts of the organisation

• Takes the lead in resolving conflict within a work group

• Looks for ways for team to work with other teams and divisions
Builds Relationships

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