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Description

EPIC - our Engineering, Product, Innovation, and Cloud teams - is a very important group here at UKG. These UKrewers are the driving force behind our cutting-edge technology, dedicated to delivering best-in-class solutions that transform how our customers work. With a passion for excellence, EPIC members continuously push boundaries and strive to make a real impact in the world.

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Lead User Experience Designer to join the team responsible for creating our next generation HR solutions. We are passionate about building products at scale that help employers become great places to work. Join us!

You have a passion for design, a keen eye for detail and bring extraordinary product and user-centered design principles. You grasp and distill user problems and translate them into delightful and engaging solutions that provide clear customer value. You can inspire a team, peers, and our UX community with your vision, expertise, storytelling and presentation skills along with your practical experience.

In this role, you will work closely with product and engineering partners and key stakeholders to clearly identify the outcomes we hope to achieve, explore potential solutions for customer pain points, pitch concepts, create and present designs, and advocate for the user experience across the organization.

Key responsibilities:
● Define product requirements, process improvements and policies by partnering with Product leaders across our suite. Build awareness of product roadmaps and business priorities. Lead product-level design discussions, workshops, decision-making and documentation.
● Provide product and design teams with thought leadership, validating design direction and guidance for complex features in the form of workflows, sketches at a wide range of fidelity, mockups, wireframes, prototypes, etc.
● Drive broad improvements to our product suite, grounded in sound user research and practical technical and domain knowledge, in alignment with overall business priorities.
● Champion the practice of design throughout our organization through strategic partnerships with other disciplines and departments.
● Uphold the principles and standards of our Design System in your practice, while cultivating its evolution and adoption.
● Base your design decisions on quantitative and qualitative data from research with our customers and collaboration with internal partners.
● Lead others (both peers and leaders) toward design excellence through influence. Contribute to the improvement of our community's design processes and practices through your experience and example for other practitioners.

Qualifications

Minimum/basic requirements
• 7+ years as a UX or Product Designer, to include 3+ years of experience working with enterprise software applications, to include having defined design direction across multiple delivery platforms (responsive browser, mobile app, etc.)
• Bachelor’s degree in a field related to user experience design or equivalent experience
• A design portfolio clearly demonstrating your work and influence on design practice and process
• Proven experience using/educating others in the use of design and prototyping applications such as Figma, Sketch, Invision, Axure, etc.
• We work in a hybrid model; the ability to work on site in Weston 3 days per week is required, from day one of employment.

Preferred
• Ability to communicate even complex concepts with clarity - verbally and in writing, in person and virtual.
• Direct experience with product Localization and Accessibility.
• Experience within the Human Capital Management or Workforce Management industry
• Facility designing for various front-end technologies and frameworks (such as Angular React, Ember, Material, Bootstrap, Ionic)
• Experience contributing to the development and adoption of Design Systems, Pattern libraries and Style Guides.
• Able to identify, recommend, and enforce design patterns, processes, and best practices for your team.
• Passion for advocating for customer value through influencing, understanding and building consensus across disciplines.

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