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Simpson Strong-Tie is a leader in engineered structural connectors, software, and solutions for the building industry. We maintain a reputation as a trusted manufacturer, partner, and corporate citizen committed to our customers and employees.
Our founder, Barc Simpson established 9 Principles of Business we live out as company values and have made Simpson Strong-Tie an inspiring place to work since 1956. Our team of talented people are dedicated to our shared mission: to provide solutions that help people design and build safer, stronger structures.
Learn about our company culture directly from our team.
YOU
We are looking for an innovative designer to join our team and help us shape the future of our design at Simpson Strong-Tie. As a Senior UX Product Designer, you will be responsible for leading the design of complex user experiences and interfaces, ensuring that our product is intuitive, functional, and visually appealing. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product management, engineering, and user research to define and deliver exceptional user experiences that meet the needs of our customers. You’ll demonstrate your creativity, analytical skills, and knowledge of user-facing technologies to enable efficient, high-quality execution and communications as well as launch innovative features for a diverse product portfolio. This position reports to the Team Manager, UX Product Design.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING (% of Time)
Product Design (40%)
- Lead the design of complex user experiences and interfaces, ensuring they are intuitive, functional, and visually appealing.
- End-to-end design process from research and ideation through to prototyping and testing.
- Use design thinking methodologies to generate and explore ideas.
- Prototype design concepts and features in collaboration with other designers, product managers, and engineers.
- Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that effectively communicate design solutions and align with user needs.
- Validate solutions through user testing and research.
- Participate in design critiques and provide constructive feedback to improve the quality of the design output.
- Stay up to date with emerging trends and best practices in UX design and technology, in order to continuously improve the design process and output.
- Identify emerging technologies, services, and spaces that can enhance the user experience across our digital product portfolio.
- Mentor junior designers and provide design guidance within design team.
Cross-Functional Teams Collaboration (40%)
- Work cross-functionally with stakeholders to understand the business and customer needs while leveraging data and analytics to inform design decisions.
- Be a leader to ensure the technical feasibility of UX engineered solutions that work across with multiple browsers and devices.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, engineering, and user research, to define and deliver exceptional user experiences that meet the needs of our customers.
- Partner with other teams across the organization to weigh in on project priorities, project estimation, and risk identification for roadmap projects.
- Work closely with UX Engineers, Project Managers, and Subject Matter Experts to implement versatile solutions to design challenges.
Design System (20%)
- Develop and maintain a design system that ensures consistency across our products and enables scalability.
- Steer the development of reusable clean UX patterns and frameworks for both simple or complex user tasks.
- Help to shape our design standards to maintain across product development.
- Continual management of clear usage guidelines shared among designers and developers.
- Eliminate existing design inconsistencies and improve future workflows for both designers and developers as the design team scales up.
DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- At least 6 years of experience in UX design for complex products.
- A passion for turning complex problems into simple and engaging solutions.
- A portfolio of work that demonstrates your design process, problem-solving skills, and the impact of your work on the product.
- Experience leading complex user and metrics-driven design solutions
- Mastery of Figma.
- Strong understanding of design systems, typography, layout, color, and interaction design principles.
- Experience leading design projects from concept to delivery, working with cross-functional teams, and managing stakeholders.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present design solutions to internal and external stakeholders.
- A strong understanding of software engineering workflows and principles is encouraged
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field is preferred.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk, and hear, and sometimes walk and stand. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may occasionally push or lift
up to 25 lbs.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
This job operates in a professional office environment where standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers/scanners, etc. are frequently used.
TRAVEL REQUIRED
This job requires 5% domestic travel.
WORK STATUS & LOCATION
This full-time, exempt position may be remote or Open to a flex schedule.
RELOCATION
Relocation is not available for this position.
Pay
$89,000 - $144,100 / year
- Posted pay range is based upon national average and may vary depending on geographical work location.
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REWARDS AT SIMPSON STRONG-TIE
We recognize and reward employees with a carefully designed and comprehensive rewards package, including competitive compensation, quarterly bonuses or commission and first-rate benefits. May exclude some positions, such as seasonal jobs.
- Quarterly Bonuses/Commission: You will be eligible for either a bonus or commission, paid on a quarterly basis. We believe all employees affect customers, sales and revenue — directly or indirectly – and should be rewarded by sharing the company profits.
- Benefits: We provide a wide range of benefits for eligible full-time employees including: medical, dental, vision, retirement contributions, employee stock purchase and bonus plans, pay for holidays, vacation, sick days, funerals and jury duty, years of service awards, employee discounts, employee referral bonuses, charitable contribution matching, education reimbursement and more. View benefit plan details here: https://benefits.strongtie.com/.
In keeping with the Company's commitment to the communities in which it does business, we are an equal opportunity employer. This means that to the fullest extent required by local law, employment decisions are based on merit and business needs and not on race, color, citizenship status, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender (which state law may define to include gender identity/expression, transgender identity, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition, and gender stereotyping), sexual orientation, age, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, genetic information, medical condition, covered marital status, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Please note all job offers are contingent upon a successful background investigation and drug test. Simpson Strong-Tie's drug policy is based upon Federal Law, and therefore will screen applicants for amphetamines, including methamphetamines, cocaine, phencyclidine, opiates, and marijuana. Where applicable, drug testing for marijuana may be modified to conform with state and local laws.
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