UX Architect II

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Develop a deep understanding of our target customers and business needs by participating in user research activities, including persona development and evangelism, heuristic evaluation, and usability reviews.
• Carry out an ongoing assessment of existing information architecture, content, and design to identify experience gaps and contradictions, remedying each as they are found.
• Plan, design, and guide the implementation of the overall UX interaction design across our various digital platforms to ensure a highly usable, familiar, seamless and successful experience.
• Guide and collaborate with Interaction Designers to create complimentary products that form a true product ecosystem.
• Create user stories and flow diagrams, and define information hierarchies.
• Protect 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 to ensure UX patterns meet performance, scalability, and reliability goals.
• Examine web analytics to inform overall UX design strategy.
• Establish collaborative working relationships with product, design, content, and development team members to ensure we deliver highly usable products that generate positive business return.
• Establish collaborative working relationships across the other UX organizations within Cox Automotive to create seamless experiences for our clients across a wide portfolio of products
• Help facilitate the visual design and content of reusable components and the design system to ensure a familiar user experience.
• Identify opportunities to create business value and improve the user experience based on research.
• Bring experience in designing for mobile devices. Responsive design experience required.
• 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.
• Excellent oral, written, and verbal communication skills, as well as interpersonal skills

WHO YOU ARE

• Must be an expert in user-centered design methods, techniques, and principles.
• Project experience in working with teams on large-scale, long-term projects.
• Proven ability (portfolio required) to produce user experience documentation: storyboards, user scenarios/tasks, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, etc.
• Proficient to expert use of software tools: Axure/iRise, Sketch,Visio/OmniGraffle, Illustrator, Photoshop, and MS Office applications.
• Must be able to lead and influence without direct authority.
• You must be interested in human beings, their thinking, behaviors, and limitations.
• Ability to establish user experience methodology, processes, estimates, and deliverables.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Group facilitation experience required.
• Ability to work on multiple projects with competing priorities simultaneously.
• Superb organizational skills with the ability to juggle multiple projects in size and complexity, prioritizing time and tasks as needed to meet aggressive deadlines.
• Be able to make intuitive leaps to hypothesize design solutions appropriately.
• Be able to understand the big picture along with expert attention to fine detail.
• Convincingly articulate ideas and rationale across the company, including the executive suite.
• Experience in client services and negotiating business decisions.
• Able to deal with ambiguity.
• Knowledge of what's possible in the digital space.
• Avid learner. Stay current on the latest trends and research in product design, SEO, and web/mobile technologies.
• Must be able to work individually with minimal supervision/mentoring and as a team.
• Ability to work across multiple internal business units and companies.

USD 94,100.00 - 141,100.00 per year

About Cox Automotive

At Cox Automotive, people of every background are driven by their passion for mobility, innovation and community. We transform the way the world buys, sells, owns and uses cars, accelerating the industry with global powerhouse brands like Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, Manheim and more. What's more, we do it all with an emphasis on employee growth and happiness. Drive your future forward and join Cox Automotive today!

About Cox

Cox empowers employees to build a better future and has been doing so for over 120 years. With exciting investments and innovations across transportation, communications, cleantech and healthcare, our family of businesses - which includes Cox Automotive and Cox Communications - is forging a better future for us all. Ready to make your mark? Join us today!

Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page .

Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer - All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual's age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.

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