Lead UX Designer / Strategist

Location:

You’ll be working remotely from anywhere in the US.

 This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Colorado, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands.

This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. Once we can safely travel, you may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or offsites

What you'll get to do...

As a UX Designer / Strategist, you provide strategic leadership and guidance to your team in developing purpose-driven work through insights and research. You are a senior representative on your team partnering with designers and copywriters driving craft & quality of strategy work on all projects.

Planning complex and challenging projects helps you gain an intimate understanding of our customer’s needs, and you can easily communicate key findings to multidisciplinary teams, from Creative to Technology. You live and breathe insights, user testing, qualitative consumer research, analytics, and information architecture—but a well-balanced working knowledge across all disciplines is just as welcome.

In this role, you’ll lead design projects of significant scope, complexity and responsibility in strategy and execution, with limitless opportunities for you to turn your ideas into reality.

• Craft Engaging Experiences - Support the customers’ needs and our business objectives by solving problems in unusual and innovative ways.
• Communicate and Collaborate - You understand technical limitations, where to take liberties and how to communicate with designers, product managers, researchers, and writers across different teams and offices.
• Design for Scale - Create experiences across multiple touch points, mediums, products, regions and customers without sacrificing consistency and simplicity.
• Prototype, Test, Iterate - Be comfortable concepting, working in low fidelity and high fidelity as well as testing, learning and iterating providing design teams insights
• Define & Document - Create artifacts that articulate our users needs, product principles and design details necessary to bring something to life with our engineers.
• Mentor, Lead, Inspire - Your team, other designers, and the larger GoDaddy design community
• Drive & Deliver - Actively lead multiple projects, from start to finish, to meet priorities and requirements in an agile environment.

Your experience should include...

• 5+ years experience in delivering projects to market with a proven track record
• A rock-solid portfolio that demonstrates skills in user experience and interaction design
• A deep understanding of what makes an experience good or bad and can communicate why
• Strong wireframe and prototyping skills
• Deep understanding of design tools like: Figma, Sketch, Framer, Adobe XD

You might also have...

• Experience building software for customer experience or service design industries
• BA or MA in interaction design, communication design, industrial design, HCI, or equivalent
• Experience with micro-interactions and animations
• Experience with UX writing, micro-copy and why content is important
• Experience working with complex information architecture and navigation challenges
• Ability to plan, scope and deliver work that contributes to a larger, long-term plan
• Ability to communicate complex ideas and concepts to a broad team of Designers, Engineers and Product Managers
• Ability to take complex problems and crystalize them into actionable items
• Experience mentoring and guiding junior members of the team
• Ability to work independently and autonomously to deliver on goals
• Experience with user experience and usability testing

We've got your back... Enjoy our many benefits (My Wallet), including paid time off, 401k, equity grants and parental leave. Join one of our employee resource groups (Culture). Continue to have a side hustle, if you have one (we love entrepreneurs, remember?). Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way.

About us... GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing all of the help and tools to succeed online. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights and the people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us (https://aboutus.godaddy.net/about-us/overview/default.aspx.) 

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