UX Designer - San Francisco (Hybrid)

**Join a leading innovator through Aquent, a key partner in connecting top talent with groundbreaking opportunities!**

Imagine shaping the future of user experiences for a global leader that impacts millions. This is your chance to own critical outcomes, drive strategic direction, and leave an indelible mark on complex programs and emerging areas. As a pivotal force within our client's dynamic team, you will navigate uncharted territories, define scalable solutions, and champion a long-term vision for user experience and product strategy. We are seeking a visionary who can influence multiple design efforts, challenge conventional thinking, and provide fresh perspectives that propel common objectives forward. If you are ready to apply your expertise as a subject-matter expert in UX design principles, user-centered methodologies, design systems, and research tools, this is your opportunity to create truly impactful and thoughtful designs.

**What You'll Do:**

You'll be at the forefront of design innovation, collaborating to deliver solutions that are not only user-centric but also strategically aligned with business goals. Your contributions will include:

* **Strategic Design Leadership:** Guide design specifications and influence implementation by collaborating closely with engineering teams.

* **Data-Driven Impact:** Utilize and propose key data and metrics to assess product impact, analyze user trends, and understand the broader industry landscape to inform design solutions.

* **Continuous Improvement:** Drive design enhancements based on UX testing and stakeholder feedback, ensuring product goals are met and expectations exceeded.

* **Consensus Building:** Build strong consensus across diverse teams and gain support for your design strategy, effectively communicating your approach and proactively addressing challenges.

* **Project & Resource Management:** Contribute to defining project priorities aligned with overarching goals, coordinate resource allocation, and seek opportunities to expand your influence within the product team.

* **Innovative Solution Creation:** Develop design solutions grounded in user insights, business needs, and industry trends that significantly advance business objectives and support key performance indicators (KPIs).

* **Forward-Thinking Design:** Create innovative solutions for user, product, and business challenges, anticipating evolving design constraints and clearly articulating the rationale behind your choices.

* **Holistic Design Systems:** Drive the implementation of a holistic design process, design system, or design language across various teams or offerings, fostering a unified and coherent experience.

* **Research & Insights:** Guide other designers in concept creation for product ideation and testing, or conduct independent research to gather insights that shape appropriate design directions.

* **Framework Application:** Apply, adapt, and define UX design frameworks, principles, patterns, and systems. Leverage writing and design tools to visualize ideas, develop mock-ups, and create prototypes that propel the product vision.

* **Accessibility & Standards:** Tailor deliverables to specific requirements, adhering to writing and design templates, style guides, and accessibility guidelines.

* **Proactive UX Enhancement:** Propose improvements to user experience by analyzing and anticipating user needs, collaborating to resolve strategic, product, or technological constraints.

**What You'll Bring:**

We are looking for a highly skilled individual with a proven track record in UX design and a passion for creating exceptional user experiences.

**Must-Have Qualifications:**

* Proficiency in data analysis, synthesis, and planning

* Strong knowledge of product design principles

* Expertise in interactive technology

* Deep understanding of UX research methodologies

* Familiarity with the product development lifecycle

* Developed aesthetic sensibility

* Insight into user behavior

* Excellent presentation skills

* Compelling storytelling abilities

* A strong systems thinking approach

* Exceptional craftsmanship in design execution

**About Aquent Talent:**

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.

Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. More information on our awesome benefits!

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.