Cox Automotive is the world’s largest automotive services and technology provider, and they are seeking a UX Architect II to join their team. In this role, you will be responsible for planning and guiding UX design across digital platforms, ensuring a successful user experience while collaborating with other teams and conducting user research.
You'll plan, design and guide the overall UX interaction design implementation across digital platforms to ensure a usable, familiar and successful experience.
You'll collaborate across other UX organizations and guide interaction designers to create complementary products that form a true ecosystem.
Developing a deep understanding of our customers and business needs by participating in user research activities, including persona development/evangelism, heuristic evaluation and usability reviews.
Assessing existing information architecture, content and design on an ongoing basis to identify experience gaps and contradictions.
Creating user stories and flow diagrams, plus defining information hierarchies.
Protecting the consistency of the overall user interface and ensure that individual components can be extended and reused.
Collaborate with technical teams to determine data accessibility and understand technology constraints/advantages for the design structure.
Examine web analytics to inform overall UX design strategy.
Help facilitate the visual design and content of reusable components and the design system.
Identify research-based opportunities to create business value and improve UX.
Champion user needs and product usability while balancing business and technical constraints.
Articulate rationale behind decisions and how to prioritize interface features.
Identify tools, templates and techniques that evolve existing processes.
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 2 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and up to 2 years' experience; or 6 years' experience in a related field.
Knowledge or understanding of user-centered design methods, techniques and other UX principles.
Basic understanding and proficiency with Figma.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent oral, written and verbal communication skills, as well as interpersonal skills.
Preferred
Prior experience as a UX Architect II, designing for mobile devices, including responsive design is a plus.
Experience working with teams on large-scale, long-term projects.
Experience with group facilitation.
Able to work on multiple projects with competing priorities simultaneously.
Able to make intuitive leaps to hypothesize design solutions.
Able to understand the big picture along with expert attention to fine detail.
Able to deal with ambiguity and to convincingly articulate ideas and rationale.
Able to work across multiple internal business units and companies.
Able to work both solo and within a team.
Able to lead and influence without direct authority.
Benefits
Flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations
Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members
Bereavement leave
Time off to vote
Jury duty leave
Volunteer time off
Military leave
Parental leave
Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
Retirement planning (401(k))
Paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)
Cox Automotive is the world’s largest automotive services and technology provider.
