Senior User Experience Designer

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior User Experience (UX) Designer who’s passionate about building powerful digital experiences for high school coaches, athletes, and their teams. At Hudl, you’ll lead the design of products that help organizations run more effectively.

Responsibilities

• Shape, conduct and translate user research to help the team understand latent needs beyond the basics of what users say they want, digging deeper into the “why” behind user feedback.
• Create actionable insights that will help drive physical and digital product experience strategy and design.
• Add clarity to ambiguous problem spaces by teasing out the important characteristics of users, their environments and the market’s expectations to support prioritized and intuitive experiences.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary counterparts in Engineering, Product, Design, Scrum and Quality to help define requirements and deliver clear and focused digital user experiences.
• Design process, quality and delivery. Advocate for tactility, accessibility, customer needs and design excellence, all as you shepherd your project to release.
• Measure and own the results of how well those solutions address design and product needs.

Requirements

We'd like to hire someone for this role who lives near our offices in Lincoln and Omaha, but we're also open to remote candidates in Kansas City, Chicago, Austin, Dallas or Phoenix.

Qualifications

• Strong communicator. Thrive in a collaborative environment that fosters open and honest communication. Excellent presentation skills and can confidently sell ideas based on solid rationale and objectives from cross-functional teams across the Hudl organization.
• Product leadership. Think holistically about a product or feature as it performs alongside other experiences within the Hudl suite.
• Iterative prototyping skills. Proficient at using low and high fidelity prototyping tools and wireframing techniques based on the needs of the project.
• A problem-solver. Ability to think critically and holistically about user interactions, and can address complex design challenges to provide innovative solutions that factor in technical, business and design constraints.
• Organizational skills. Assess the appropriate level of design and research necessary to achieve your goals, with a plan to reach final deliverables. This includes using the Hudl design system, Uniform, and working directly with members of the design system team.
• Technical proficiency. Used modern component-based design software (e.g., Figma and Adobe Creative suite) and tools like Miro to workshop concepts and drive alignment with remote stakeholders.
• A robust portfolio. Able to showcase a variety of projects that demonstrate your expertise in UX design, including examples of user flows, wireframes, prototypes and final design solutions.

Skills

• Research and insights experience. Planned and conducted qualitative and quantitative user research, and know how to translate insights into actionable product and design outcomes. Adept at using various research methodologies to optimize the end user experience.
• Sports enthusiast. Understands the unique challenges and opportunities within the sports technology industry. Not an athlete? No problem. What about people close to you who compete or coach?
• Growth mindset. Committed to staying up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies and design best practices, and have a strong desire to continuously learn and evolve.

Benefits

• Champion work-life harmony. Flexible vacation time, company-wide holidays and timeout (meeting-free) days, remote work options and more.
• Guarantee autonomy. Open, honest culture and trust your people from day one. Support your team, but own your work and have the agency to try new ideas.
• Encourage career growth. Resources and opportunities to keep growing.
• Provide an environment to help you succeed. Incredible spaces with our employees in mind. Tech stack and hardware to do your best work.
• Support your mental and physical health. Employee Assistance Program, employee resource groups and fitness partner Peerfit.
• Cover your medical insurance. Multiple plans to pick from to ensure you’ll have the coverage you (and your dependents) want, including vision, dental, fertility healthcare and family forming benefits.
• Contribute to your 401(K). Free money. Match up to 4% of your own contribution.

Pay

The base salary range for this role is displayed below—starting salaries will typically fall near the middle of this range. We make compensation decisions based on an individual's experience, skills and education in line with our internal pay equity practices.

Schedule

This role will also be eligible for a long-term incentive (LTI) award. Any bonuses awarded are based on individual and company performance paid at Hudl's discretion.