UX Designer

Saicon; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Saicon is seeking a Senior UX Designer to lead user-centered design initiatives across product managers, developers, designers, and business partners. You will drive research from strategy to usability testing, design usable, responsive applications, and apply rigorous design system standards within complex railroad-related workflows.

You will quickly learn domain specifics, influence stakeholders with clear design decisions, and deliver artifacts from sketches to high-fidelity prototypes,

Qualifications

• UI and responsive/mobile design
• Visual design and usability testing
• Quantitative and qualitative user research
• Figma design and prototyping software or similar
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Ability to apply design systems and wcag accessibility standards
• Experience leading design projects

Responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate user research initiatives using generative and evaluative methods.
• Translate research findings, data, and insights into design decisions to validate solutions.
• Design usable, responsive applications for various customer roles and products, applying design system standards.
• Learn and synthesize complex business and logistics domains relevant to railroad operations.
• Communicate design decisions clearly and influence stakeholders.
• Create artifacts such as sketches, wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, user flows, personas, and usability test reports.

Skills

UI design

Responsive design

Visual design

Usability testing

User research

Figma

Prototyping

Design systems

WCAG accessibility

Communication

Leadership

AI tools

Tools

Dovetail

Figma AI

Adobe Sensei

Microsoft Copilot

Job description

• Strong background leading user-centered design processes with a cross-functional team of product managers, delivery managers, developers, designers and business partners to figure out the best way to solve problems for customers. Work ranges from user research and strategy to design and usability.
• Must be capable of planning and leading user research initiatives, employing a variety of generative and evaluative research methods. Experience helping product teams use research findings, data and insights to inform design decisions and validate design solutions.
• Responsible for designing usable responsive applications for various customer roles and products. This requires the ability to apply design system standards to specialized applications.
• Able to quickly learn specialized business and logistics domains. Can analyze complex workflows that may span multiple departments and user groups and understand how they fit into railroad operations.
• Posesses strong communication skills to articulate design decisions and influence stakeholders.
• Experience creating research, design and test artifacts. This includes sketches, wireframes, visual design comps, high fidelity prototypes, user flows, journey maps, personas, usability test artifacts, user research scripts, reports, and presentations.
• Collaborate with a matrixed team of ux designers to provide design critiques and offer guidance to early career designers.

Desired profile:

• Strong background leading user-centered design processes with a cross-functional team of product managers, delivery managers, developers, designers and business partners to figure out the best way to solve problems for customers. Work ranges from user research and strategy to design and usability.
• Must be capable of planning and leading user research initiatives, employing a variety of generative and evaluative research methods. Experience helping product teams use research findings, data and insights to inform design decisions and validate design solutions.
• Responsible for designing usable responsive applications for various customer roles and products. This requires the ability to apply design system standards to specialized applications.
• Able to quickly learn specialized business and logistics domains. Can analyze complex workflows that may span multiple departments and user groups and understand how they fit into railroad operations.
• Possesses strong communication skills to articulate design decisions and influence stakeholders.
• Experience creating research, design and test artifacts. This includes sketches, wireframes, visual design comps, high fidelity prototypes, user flows, journey maps, personas, usability test artifacts, user research scripts, reports, and presentations.
• Collaborate with a matrixed team of ux designers to provide design critiques and offer guidance to early career designers.

Must Have:

• UI and responsive/mobile design
• Visual design and usability testing
• Quantitative and qualitative user research
• Figma design and prototyping software or similar
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Ability to apply design systems and wcag accessibility standards
• Experience leading design projects

Good To Have:

• Guiding development teams to help them execute ux designs
• Experience facilitating workshops with large groups of stakeholders
• Familiar with design systems such as material design
• Experience using research repository such as dovetail and turning research into actionable findings
• Ability to use analytics software and analyze data
• Experience presenting to company executives
• Knowledge of ai-assisted design tools (e.g., figma ai, adobe sensei, microsoft copilot)
• Ability to leverage ai tools like copilot for content generation, workflow automation, and design ideation
• Understanding of how ai impacts ux workflows, user behavior, and ethical design considerations

Experience:

• Senior level 7-15 years of experience