Senior UI/UX Designer

Pointwest Technologies Corp; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Pointwest Technologies Corp is seeking a senior product designer in Los Angeles to enhance user experience across business-critical applications in the media industry. The role involves collaborating with various teams and requires proficiency in Figma, Adobe CC, and knowledge of design systems. Candidates should demonstrate exceptional design skills and strategic systems thinking. This position offers an opportunity to work innovatively on multiple projects while maintaining design excellence.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in software and tools including Figma, Adobe CC, and Google Workspace.
• Deep understanding of design language application across devices.
• Exceptional visual and interaction design skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate business goals and user needs into strategic product opportunities.
• Create, grow, and maintain scalable libraries of components.
• Deliver compelling presentations to executive leadership.

Skills

Proficiency in Figma

Knowledge of Adobe CC

Experience with prototyping tools

Understanding of design languages

Strong communication skills

Tools

Figma

Adobe CC

Jira

Job description

Pointwest client produces and distributes content through some of the world’s leading and most valued brands for News Media, Sports, Entertainment and Television Stations. They empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise, and strategic thinking.

THE ROLE

Pointwest is seeking a senior-level product designer to work across its client’s suite of business-critical applications, helping set a new elevated standard for user experience and visual design in the MEDIA industry. This role will work closely with various teams across business units in the end-to-end product process, designing the UX and UI of the products themselves while parallel pathing the evolution of a design system that will create consistency and brand equity across the suite, as well as downstream product design efficiencies.

The successful candidate will have a proven background in systems-based product thinking and design, and will have worked within the product agency, technology, data, or media industries.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Translate business goals and user needs into strategic product opportunities, and incorporate stakeholder and user feedback.
• Interpret and distill complex strategies and requirements, and visually depict the ideal user experience through information architecture, diagrammatic flows, and varying fidelities of wireframes.
• Express behaviors, interactions, movements, and materials through interactive, high-fidelity prototypes of key concepts using Figma and other prototyping platforms of choice.
• Facilitate design working sessions to explore concept innovation and drive original thinking.
• Create, grow, and maintain scalable libraries of components, modules, wireframes, templates, and prototypes that can be deployed across the multi-device product suite.
• Write dev-ready annotations and functional requirements documentation throughout the design process.
• Integrate accessibility best practices throughout the design process, ensuring the design system meets accessibility requirements to make products accessible to all.
• Build collaborative relationships with strategy, business analyst, product management, engineering, and project management partners throughout the product process.
• Shape, facilitate, and analyze design research to inform user needs and product requirements.
• Deliver compelling presentations to executive leadership and business stakeholders, effectively communicating the value and impact of design.

SKILLS AND CAPABILITIES

Required

• Proficiency in software and tools including Figma, Adobe CC, Google Workspace, Airtable, prototyping tools, Jira, and others.
• A deep understanding of how a design language applies across mediums and devices to ensure brand, visual, and interaction cohesion across products, experiences, and marketing materials.
• An innate curiosity and enthusiasm to learn, keeping abreast of industry trends and discipline innovation.
• Exceptional visual and interaction design skills, as well as written and verbal communication skills.
• An ability to work quickly and efficiently when ideating, actioning feedback, and producing final deliverables.
• Keen attention to detail and pursuit of aesthetic excellence.
• Strategic systems-thinking with the ability to go beyond the pixels and design.

Strong communication skills when collaborating with partners and stakeholders.

Proven ability to work proactively and autonomously.

Able to work on multiple design projects across the organization, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and managing time effectively to deliver high-quality outcomes.

Able to continuously learn about technology that underpins our business-critical products.

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience designing enterprise, SaaS, and/or AI-focused products.
• Familiarity with Salesforce’s Lightning Design System.
• Brand and visual design capabilities beyond product.
• Animation and video editing skills.
• Light UX or copywriting skills that can enhance designs.