Senior User Experience Designer

PTR Global; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; Full time

Job summary

PTR Global is seeking a Senior UX Designer for a 9-month contract in Mountain View, CA. The role involves leading UX projects, collaborating with product and engineering teams, and ensuring user-centric design while focusing on privacy and security. This position offers a competitive hourly rate and the opportunity to impact a widely-used mobile platform.

Benefits

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

401(k)

Qualifications

• Experience leading UX for complex user-facing products.
• Passion for well-designed presentations and sharing insights.
• Ability to map user journeys and segment product features.

Responsibilities

• Create a vision at the project level in partnership with PM and engineering leads.
• Lead UX projects from initial concept through execution.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate concepts.

Skills

Exceptional storytelling

Communication

Collaboration

Self-leadership

Job description

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Base pay range

$80.00/hr - $100.00/hr

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Project Overview:

Our client, the world’s most popular mobile platform with approximately 3 billion monthly active devices worldwide, is seeking a Senior UX Designer to join their team for 9 months in Mountain View, CA.

The platform started as a bold idea to advance open standards in mobile. The ecosystem continues to grow, and the pace of innovation has never been greater, offering users choice and diversity. They are focused on creating consistent, reliabl,e and secure experiences within a strong ecosystem, making them available to as many people as possible.

Privacy and Security are core pillars for the client. They are of crucial importance to the platform and the apps that run on it. The team focuses on making its users confident, navigating the digital and AI world, knowing they’re protected and in control of their security and privacy.

Overall Responsibilities:

As part of our team, you will:

• Create a results-oriented vision at the project level in partnership with Project Management (PM) and engineering leads
• Align the UX and cross-functional teams on a long-term project vision through workshops, sprints, customer meetings, and other collaborative efforts.
• Lead UX projects from initial concept through execution and launch.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and research partners to explore and evaluate concepts, support implementation, and independently move projects forward
• Communicate progress and design rationale to align on design decisions with stakeholders
• Partner with research & PM to define goals and success metrics, and frequently evaluate designs

Mandatory Skills/Qualifications:

• Experience leading UX for complex user-facing products at scale
• Exceptional storytelling skills that bring customer values to life and a passion for well-designed presentations and share-outs
• Experience with conceptual work, early phases of the design process, and workshop facilitation
• Map user journeys and possible product features, and be able to segment those journeys into product launches that can balance customer and business needs.
• Great self-leadership, communication, and collaboration skills
• Experience leading projects with researchers to evaluate designs, and partnering with mobile engineers to implement high-quality designs
• Experience collaborating with and aligning many cross-functional or cross-team stakeholders to scope work and define timelines.
• A deep desire to apply design and technology toward expanding what’s possible, protecting user privacy, and improving the world

Non-Essential Skills/Qualifications:

• Visual Design, Prototyping, Design Sprint, Privacy and Security experience, Meeting and workshop facilitation

Logistics:

• Role Title: UX Designer
• Duration: 9 Months
• Work Location: Hybrid (Tuesday-Thursday) in Mountain View, CA
• Work Schedule: Normal PST Business Hours
• Benefits: Health, vision, dental, 401k offered after 60 days
• Work Authorization: No C2C, must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship
• Pay: $80-100 per hour DOE - W2 Only

The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity, and location of the role, as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials, and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401K contributions as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by applicable state or localities where you reside or work.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Design

• Industries

  Telecommunications and Technology, Information and Media

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Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

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