Senior User Experience Designer (Hybrid)

American Family Insurance; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

401(k)

Pension plan

Annual incentive

9 paid holidays

Paid time off

Student loan repayment

Paid-family leave

Job summary

American Family Insurance is seeking a senior UX professional to lead teams in analyzing information and applying user-centered design to create engaging, highly usable experiences. You will collaborate to define features, user stories, and prototypes that are on brand and address both user and business needs.

This hybrid role requires working from Madison, WI or Boston, MA, reporting to a Senior Manager, Digital and Technology Product.

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years in Interaction Design or Information Architecture.
• Experience prototyping and with design systems.
• Experience with Salesforce Platform (Lightning, LWC).
• Experience in Agile/SAFe environments.

Responsibilities

• Acquire information from partners and stakeholders to inform design impact.
• Lead sketching sessions and brainstorm solutions with the team.
• Define features, user stories, and task breakdowns for incremental delivery.
• Create low and high-fidelity prototypes for communication and testing.
• Ensure brand identity aligns with recommendations and visuals.
• Review UX deliverables such as user flows, wireframes, and UI specs.
• Review QA defects and prioritize fixes for the team.

Skills

User-centered design

Interaction design

Information architecture

Prototyping

Usability testing

Storyboarding

Wireframes

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Sigma

Salesforce SLDS

Salesforce LWC

Job description

This position leads team members to analyze various sources of information and apply user-centered design principles to bring to life engaging and highly usable experiences. This role is responsible for collaborating with others to design and communicate an end solution that is on brand, visually impactful and meets both user and business needs.

In this hybrid, you will be expected to work a minimum of 10 days per month from one of the following office locations: Madison, WI; Boston, MA.

Internal candidates are encouraged to apply and should review the internal mobility guidelines in the hybrid policy reference guide for more information.

You will report to a Senior Manager, Digital and Technology Product.

Position Compensation Range:

$99,000.00 - $167,000.00

Pay Rate Type:

Salary

Compensation may vary based on the job level and your geographic work location. Relocation support is offered for eligible candidates.

Primary Accountabilities

• Acquire necessary information (analytics, qualitative feedback, etc.) from key partners and stakeholders to ensure designs are considerate of business impact and user impact.
• Leads sketching sessions and other brainstorming activities with team members to capture ideas and broad solution alternatives.
• Collaborate with others to define features, user stories and breakdown of tasks/work effort to deliver end solution incrementally.
• Instruct and lead creation of low and high-fidelity prototypes used to communicate interaction design expectations to others or for testing purposes.
• Maintain a thorough understanding of the brand identity standards to ensure recommendations are consistent with the corporate vision.
• Review and presents user experience deliverables such as user flows diagrams, wireframes and user interface specifications.
• Review quality assurance defects and recommends prioritization of resolution to team.

Specialized Knowledge & Skills Requirements

• Demonstrated experience planning, designing, and building complex web-sites and mobile experiences.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of usability best practices, information architecture principles, interaction design concepts, user research methodologies and best-in-class design principles (Color theory, space, shape, alignment etc.) for web and mobile application concepts.
• Demonstrated experience communicating concepts and rationale through storyboards, mood boards, visual design mockups, wireframes, user flows, user journey maps, information architecture diagrams etc.
• Demonstrated experience using design-thinking to solve problems and applying usability principles to recommended solutions.
• Demonstrated experience selecting and providing recommendations around proper typography for the web.
• Demonstrated experience selecting, creating and guiding visual content for the web (photos, advertising banners, video, etc).
• Demonstrated experience creating interactive prototypes.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing diverse information sources in order to create a design solution and recommendations.
• Demonstrated experience organizing and managing work across multiple projects in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated experience working with cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated experience creating style guides, usability standards documentation
• Solid knowledge of the latest design, accessibility, and development trends.

Additional Specialized Knowledge and Skills

• 5-8+ years in Interaction Design, Information Architecture, prototyping in tools like Sigma, and work with Design Systems ( Example SLDS for Salesforce)
• Designing complex Enterprise or internal tools such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) or Contact Center
• Experience with Salesforce Platform (Lightning, Record Pages, LWC)
• Working in Agile/ SAFe teams alongside Product Managers and Product Owners
• Insurance or financial services background is a plus
• NN/g UX Certification or Salesforce Certified Platform User (UX) Designer Certification are a plus.

Licenses

• Not Applicable.

Travel Requirements

• Up to 10%.

Physical Requirements

• Work that primarily involves sitting/standing.

Working Conditions

• Not Applicable.

Additional Information

• To ensure a strong start, all employees participate in our New Employee Orientation during their first week. This experience is held in person at our Madison, WI Headquarters or one of our AmFam core locations to help you connect with our mission, meet key team members and build relationships that support your growth. At times, sessions may be delivered virtually based on scheduling and availability.
• Offer to selected candidate will be made contingent on the results of applicable background checks
• Offer to selected candidate is contingent on signing a non-disclosure agreement for proprietary information, trade secrets, and inventions
• Sponsorship will not be considered for this position unless specified in the posting

We provide benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. You will have access to comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits that enable you to take care of your health. We also offer a competitive 401(k) contribution, a pension plan, an annual incentive, 9 paid holidays and a paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees). In addition, our student loan repayment program and paid-family leave are available to support our employees and their families. Interns and contingent workers are not eligible for American Family Insurance Group benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws pertaining to non-discrimination, non-harassment and equal opportunity. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

American Family Insurance is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please email [e-mail] to request a reasonable accommodation.