Senior UI/UX Designer

The Role

Pointwest is seeking a senior-level product designer to work across its client’s suite of business-critical applications, helping set a new elevated standard for user experience and visual design in the MEDIA industry. This role will work closely with various teams across business units in the end-to-end product process, designing the UX and UI of the products themselves while parallel pathing the evolution of a design system that will create consistency and brand equity across the suite, as well as downstream product design efficiencies.

Duties and Responsibilities

- Translate business goals and user needs into strategic product opportunities, and incorporate stakeholder and user feedback. - Interpret and distill complex strategies and requirements, and visually depict the ideal user experience through information architecture, diagrammatic flows, and varying fidelities of wireframes. - Express behaviors, interactions, movements, and materials through interactive, high-fidelity prototypes of key concepts using Figma and other prototyping platforms of choice. - Facilitate design working sessions to explore concept innovation and drive original thinking. - Create, grow, and maintain scalable libraries of components, modules, wireframes, templates, and prototypes that can be deployed across the multi-device product suite. - Write dev-ready annotations and functional requirements documentation throughout the design process. - Integrate accessibility best practices throughout the design process, ensuring the design system meets accessibility requirements to make our products accessible to all. - Build collaborative relationships with strategy, business analyst, product management, engineering, and project management partners throughout the product process. - Shape, facilitate, and analyze design research to inform user needs and product requirements. - Deliver compelling presentations to executive leadership and business stakeholders, effectively communicating the value and impact of design.

Skills and Capabilities

Required

- Proficiency in software and tools including Figma, Adobe CC, Google Workspace, Airtable, prototyping tools, Jira, and others. - A deep understanding of how a design language applies across mediums and devices to ensure brand, visual, and interaction cohesion across products, experiences, and marketing materials. - An innate curiosity and enthusiasm to learn, keeping abreast of industry trends and discipline innovation. - Exceptional visual and interaction design skills, as well as written and verbal communication skills. - An ability to work quickly and efficiently when ideating, actioning feedback, and producing final deliverables. - Keen attention to detail and pursuit of aesthetic excellence. - Strategic systems-thinking with the ability to go beyond the pixels and design. - Strong communication skills when collaborating with partners and stakeholders. - Proven ability to work proactively and autonomously. - Able to work on multiple design projects across the organization, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and managing time effectively to deliver high-quality outcomes. - Able to continuously learn about technology that underpins our business-critical products.

Nice to Have

- Experience designing enterprise, SaaS, and/or AI-focused products. - Familiarity with Salesforce’s Lightning Design System. - Brand and visual design capabilities beyond product. - Animation and video editing skills. - Light UX or copywriting skills that can enhance designs.