UX Designer; III

"Exceeding Your Expectations" Strong Tower Consulting is an award-winning staffing and consulting firm delivering trusted advisory services and innovative solutions to Fortune 500 companies and growing organizations. Our teams help clients drive digital transformation, improve operational efficiency, and support large-scale business initiatives.

We believe great work starts with great people. Our team, comprising 75% women, is at the forefront of driving positive change and innovation in our field.

Work Location:

Seattle, WA - Hybrid (Hybrid work: Tues-Thurs in the office. Monday & Friday remote)

Work Schedule:

Normal PST business hours, Monday to Friday

As a User Experience Design focused on visual design deliverables, you'll create innovative visual design solutions to user, product, and business problems, explicitly focusing on delivering polished product assets and marketing support materials, maintaining a holistic view of the brand across multiple surfaces and platforms. You'll apply, adapt, and/or define visual design frameworks, including principles, patterns, and systems. You'll leverage design tools to visualize ideas, develop mock-ups, or prototypes to drive the product vision forward.

You'll create thoughtful and rigor-driven design proposals considering short-term needs and long-term scale across design systems, considering hierarchy, visual saliency, and accessibility. Ability to generate multiple visual approaches & solutions, and clearly communicate design rationale for a recommended approach is critical. You apply your expertise by serving as a subject-matter expert in visual design principles (including iconography, typography, color, imagery, and layout, or marketing assets), user-centered product development methodologies, and design systems.

You'll collaborate with engineers, product managers, and other UX designers to effectively communicate the value of visual design and brand, negotiating and influencing design intention for implementation.

• Proficiency in Visual design principles (Typography, Color, Layout, Iconography)
• Proficiency in Brand application and design systems
• Proficiency in Aesthetic sensibility
• Advanced proficiency in Craftsmanship
• Proficiency in Product design (Knowledge)
• Proficiency in Presentations and Storytelling
• Proficiency in Systems thinking
• Proficiency in User behavior
• Proficiency in Interactive technology

• A degree in relevant field (UX Design, Visual Design, Visual Communications)
• Expertise in Figma and/or other design tools
• A strong portfolio showcasing your visual design expertise, and a deep understanding of visual and interaction design principles and best practices
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent collaboration skills

years of experience

7+ yrs experience

As a User Experience (UX) Designer, you own outcomes for one mature project, complex program, or emerging area. You accomplish this by navigating and defining a scalable and sustainable approach to solve difficult problems with limited precedent and/or by developing and evangelizing long-term user experience & product strategy for your team. You influence by guiding the momentum of multiple adjacent design efforts and/or by providing alternative perspectives for your team that challenge prevailing thinking against common objectives and/or by provoking greater divergence of thinking.

You apply your expertise by serving as a subject-matter expert in UX design principles, user-centered product development methodologies, design systems, and research tools. You collaborate with others to deliver work such as: analyzing or anticipating user needs, resolving constraints, and mitigating potential risks, leading the implementation of a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products, defining user experience / product strategy for your team, and exploring innovative solutions to new or existing problems that explicitly consider and mitigate unintentional harm.

You have a proven ability to design products and deliver outputs including the product or platform, and possess the depth of knowledge, experience, and business acumen required to assess and communicate how well-considered the design work is for appropriateness, longevity, collaboration, scaling.

Responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with engineers to communicate, negotiate, and/or influence design intention. Guide design specifications (e.g., design spec s, mock-ups, or product models) for implementation.
• Use and propose new, key data and metrics to evaluate product impact, understand the product ecosystem, user trends, and industry (e.g., competitors) by collaborating across teams when developing design solutions.
• Drive improvements in design based on UX testing and stakeholder input and provide input and feedback to engage stakeholders on product design and achieve product goals.
• Build consensus across teams and gain support for…