senior UX Designericon group

About the Role
As Senior UX Designer you will be contributing to one of icon's core competencies: envisioning, designing and building the next generation of impactful digital product and service experiences. With your knowledge and expertise, you will serve as a driving creative force internally and externally, making decisive contribution to icon impact's future orientation, helping us grow and pioneer new solutions and offerings for our clients. As the Senior User Experience (UX) Designer, you create intuitive, brand-specific and delightful user experiences for the world's biggest brands. You're a master at developing impactful experience concepts and designing advanced layouts and interactions for all kinds of digital interfaces. Using your expertise and personal experience, you evaluate solutions holistically, identify and remove obstacles, and help break down the silos that prevent innovation. Beyond UX, you have a good understanding of business value (product), as well as visual and motion design (brand) and can contribute valuable ideas as we move from idea to realization.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
Contribute to our holistic innovation design practice for icon impact USA
Provide leadership for all our clients with highest quality user experience recommendations and executions, from ideation to final delivery
Be comfortable and enjoy trying out new tools, methods and approaches... enjoy thinking about What if!?
Act as a true senior leader on the creative team; bring a strong UX focus, but a generalist design mindset
Work with an interdisciplinary team for project success from kickoff to completion
Promote design efforts, mindset, and methods
Rapidly ideate and produce multiple UX concepts and take a project through the entire design process from concept to delivery.
Develop and articulate the methods and approaches for framing and solving design problems.
Create high level concept-documents and idea-visualizations for products, services, and ecosystems
Explore, design, and specify navigation and interactions (flows, high level and detailed)
Ensure that products have a cohesive and seamless flow so that the user can intuitively navigate the whole experience.
Qualifications
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in design or related field from an accredited university
Minimum 5 years' experience in product design or UX; experience with automotive UX design is highly preferred
Experience working in an agency setting is required
Hands-on, get things done attitude; no job is too big or too small
Ability to provide big vision thinking while keeping an eye on the details
Advanced knowledge of Adobe CS Suite, Omnigraffle and Keynote
Solid knowledge of prototyping tools, usability testing and user research techniques
Exceptional visual, written and verbal communications skills
Views challenges as opportunities
An entrepreneurial spirit, flexible and quick to grasp new topics and strong willingness to drive real innovation. Thrive in a fast-paced and sometimes unpredictable environment, appreciate the uncertainty as opportunity to make an impact.
Strong curiosity for digital and technological trends across industries and society
Dedicated to creating a culture of pioneering spirit, creativity, quality and excellence
Organized with an eye for detail
Experience in defining user experiences for a variety of platforms, products and applications
Demonstrated understanding of usability principles
Strong visual design skills
Understanding of information architecture
Interaction design examples
About Us
At icon group we disrupt markets by redefining the established and creating the new. We enable smart interactions at home and beyond, creating experiences for today and tomorrow. And while experiences are what we provide, design is at the heart of what we do, fueled by our curiosity and the desire to deliver the best possible results. Our creative thinking is end to end, starting with insightful strategies and ideation that informs customer experience design. In parallel we validate technical feasibility and develop software and hardware prototypes. Our efforts are punctuated with future showcases or industrialized products at scale.
Our US Headquarters is located in beautiful Santa Monica, CA, but we remain close to our sister studios in Detroit, Berlin, and Shanghai. Our diverse team is made up of scrappy, passionate innovators who believe that user experience is just as much about joy as it is about ease. We are creators with an unquenchable curiosity and drive to turn business challenges into success stories. Our team is united in the company's mission and engaged in its success. iconmobile believes in helping its employees thrive in their journeys as disruptors and groundbreakers.
Culture & Benefits
Continuous development is a key component of innovation and since our people are our greatest strength, we know how important it is to provide development opportunities. Additionally, with so much diversity in the work we do, it's nearly impossible not to learn something new every day - whatever your role.
Everything we do at iconmobile aims to support our employees in their pursuits in and out of the office. With flexible working hours, ambitious and bright colleagues and an innovative international environment with diverse employees from every corner of the globe, we allow our employees the chance to define their own authentic work-life balance, challenge imaginations and help us stay innovative and forward thinking. As we work hard and we strive for excellence, we also do our best to make our employees feel happy - therefore we provide access to a host of discounts and deals for shopping and services and offer lots of company events and parties and competitive industry salaries__.
Equal opportunities at icon:
I _con Impact is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We support non-discriminatory, equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, genetic information, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, Veteran status, or any other protected characteristic outlined by federal, state and local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable legal requirements. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, benefits, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.___
icon group

Santa Monica, Surigao del Norte
Permanent
Full-time