UX / UI Designer - REMOTE

Company: Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC
Location: Houston
Posted on: June 25, 2022

Job Description:

Dare to Dream!
At Serta Simmons Bedding, we dare to dream and work differently. We're proud to be one of the largest bedding manufacturers in North America and lead the way with our iconic brands - Serta -, Beautyrest -, Simmons - and Tuft & Needle -. When you join our company, you become part of winning team that is excited and committed to helping our customers get a good night's sleep. Fueled by care for our people and their safety, we provide inspiring career opportunities, competitive benefits, and employee perks, and most importantly, the chance to make a positive impact in the lives of our customers.
What You'll Do:

• Lead and advocate for user-centered design every step of the way and lead the design process from concept to execution.
• Organize complex research and product information into elegant and coherent user flows, interaction designs, interactive prototypes, visual design mocks and specifications for dev to build.
• Propose and validate hypotheses and optimize our site experience through qualitative and quantitative studies and A/B testing
• Plan and execute user research studies and partner with UX researchers to understand our customer and validate product concepts
• Mentor and work closely with other designers, and engage with multiple project partners, including product managers, engineers, UX researchers, marketing managers and other designers to ensure that the user experience is simple, straightforward, and elegant.
• Analyze and synthesize complex design challenges into 'simple' practical design solutions that are grounded in user research and data.
• Continue to build on and advance our existing design system and maintain graphic standards and branding throughout the product's interface.
• Coordinate and lead ideation sessions with cross-functional teams to successfully collaborate on a project and synthesis ideas into an executional strategy.
• Foster a healthy design practice by giving and receiving feedback with maturity and perspective.
• Actively promote the value of design and design thinking through your interactions with others.
  What You'll Bring:
  
  • 5-7 years related experience in UX design.
  • E-commerce experience required. Home experience preferred.
  • Experience developing design systems at scale a plus.
  • Strong UI animation skills a plus.
  • A bias toward testing and a curiosity for what you don't know
  • Ability to clearly articulate design decisions & problems with excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
  • Mastery of an iterative design process: incorporating feedback, launching quickly and testing hypotheses
  • Strong user advocacy, focused on building the right experience for our customers.
  • Meticulous sense of detail with ability to see the bigger picture.
    How You'll Do It
    
    • Ability to coordinate, facilitate, and synthesis multidisciplinary ideation sessions. Ability to live wireframe a plus.
    • An entrepreneurial spirit, and willingness to take on new challenges and risks.
    • Comfortable in a high-growth, fast-paced, self-starter environment.
    • Speed and mastery working in common design and prototyping tools including: Figma, Sketch, Illustrator, Photoshop, and InvisionApp
    • A strong portfolio showcasing examples of problem solving and applying user-centered design principles: concept sketches, user stories, interaction flows, prototypes, design specifications for development, and UI mockups for desktop and mobile. Examples of both methodology and production assets are highly encouraged.
      Benefits:
      - Health, Dental, and Vision (starts on day one) - 401K with company match - Paid Time Off / Vacation - 12 company holidays - Sick days - Employee discounts - Referral Bonus
      
      Come Dream With Us!!
      When you join Serta Simmons Bedding, you become part of our 220-year legacy of sleep solutions with endless opportunities to impact our future for centuries to come.Once you're here, you'll be part of a winning company that invests and supports our team members' career journeys. We offer competitive benefits, job training, learning and development, and other employee perks such as our employee discount on all products.
      Serta Simmons Bedding is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, medical condition, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status or civil partnership/union status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth, genetic information, military and veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state or local law. Your experience is important to us.

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