UI/UX Designer

About the role

Unique Vacations, Inc. is an affiliate of the worldwide representative of Sandals Resorts and Beaches Resorts. We provide exclusive, marketing, public relations, advertising, promotions, and creative services to showcase the Luxury Included experience, which guests have come to adore for 40 years and counting for Sandals & Beaches Resorts.

Job Roles And Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct user research activities including stakeholder interviews, usability tests, and competitive analyses to inform design decisions.
• Create user personas, journey maps, and task flows that reflect the needs of our guests across the booking and discovery experience.
• Identify friction points and opportunities across web properties and advocate for user-centered improvements with clear rationale.
• Translate quantitative data (analytics, heatmaps, A/B test results) into actionable design insights.
• Create wireframes, interaction flows, and clickable prototypes in Figma that communicate design intent at every level of fidelity.
• Design intuitive, accessible interfaces for web and mobile experiences — spanning landing pages, promotional campaigns, booking flows, and content pages.
• Run rapid design iterations based on feedback from stakeholders, peers, and usability findings.
• Define and document interaction patterns, micro-animations, and edge-case states that ensure a complete, production-ready experience.
• Produce high-fidelity visual designs that balance brand expression with usability and conversion goals.
• Actively contribute to and maintain the shared design system — building and documenting reusable components, tokens, and usage guidelines.
• Ensure visual consistency across all digital properties by applying established brand standards and flagging deviations for resolution.
• Create and maintain design specifications, redlines, and assets that enable smooth developer handoff.
• Collaborate with web designers, front-end developers, and marketing teams throughout the design and build process to ensure design intent is preserved in production.
• Participate in sprint planning, design critiques, and retrospectives as part of an Agile workflow managed in Jira.
• Clearly present and defend design decisions to stakeholders at all levels, framing choices in terms of user needs and business goals.
• Travel periodically to resort properties and international offices to gather first-hand context and support on-site initiatives.

Competence Requirements

• Advanced proficiency in Figma — including auto layout, component variants, interactive prototypes, and design system management.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong UX process alongside polished UI craft: research artifacts, wireframes, flows, and final screens.
• Solid understanding of interaction design principles, information architecture, and accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA).
• Experience conducting usability tests or user interviews and synthesizing findings into prioritized recommendations.
• Comfort working with data — able to read analytics dashboards and use quantitative insights to support or challenge design decisions.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills; able to explain design rationale persuasively to both designers and non-designers.
• Experience working in a cross-functional team with developers and product or marketing stakeholders.
• Familiarity with front-end implementation — enough to design within technical constraints and collaborate effectively on handoff.
• Nice to have: Experience designing e-commerce, booking, or conversion-focused flows; familiarity with A/B testing tools (Optimizely, VWO, or similar) and translating test results into design iterations; knowledge of HTML/CSS — able to review production implementation and identify discrepancies; experience with motion design or prototyping micro-interactions in Figma or Principle; background in hospitality, travel, or luxury brand design; experience contributing to or building out a design system from the ground up.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Graphic Design, or equivalent professional experience.
• 4+ years of professional experience in UI/UX design, with a portfolio demonstrating both process and craft.
• Experience working on high-traffic consumer-facing websites or digital products is strongly preferred.

Benefits

• Full benefits package including: Health, Dental, Vision, Employer paid life insurance, STD, and LTD, Sick days, Vacation days, 9 Holidays, Tuition assistance, Parental leave, 401K plan with a company match.
• Additional perks: After 6 months of continuous employment, you may visit the resorts we represent at a discounted rate.

About Unique Vacations

Unique Vacations Inc. is an affiliate of the worldwide representative of Sandals and Beaches Resorts – exclusively providing, marketing, public relations, advertising, promotions, and creative services to showcase the Luxury Included experience, which the guests have come to adore for 40 years and counting for Sandals and Beaches Resorts.

Designed for couples in love, Sandals Resorts boasts 18 Luxury Included resorts located on the Caribbean’s best beaches in Jamaica, Bahamas, Barbados, Antigua, Curaçao, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenada. The family-friend resorts for everyone, Beaches Resorts offers three magnificent locations in Jamaica and Turks & Caicos. We are headquartered in sunny South Florida – a hop, skip and a jump from the glorious Caribbean islands.