Senior UX Designer, Consumer - Remote First
Who we are:
Vista is in the midst of an ambitious transformation to become the expert design and marketing partner for small businesses. Vista's UX + Design team creates customer experiences that deliver on this promise. We envision the future, make the possibilities real, instill confidence and pride, and encourage small businesses to bring their outstanding visions to life.
The Consumer Design team at Vista will be a multidisciplinary collective of experts who are all focused on providing the best consumer experience. We invent, create, iterate on, and improve every event in consumers lives from weddings to birthdays to holidays. Our goal is to protect the existing core of the consumer experience while we expand for more.
What we value:
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Delivering unparalleled value and benefit to our customers while delivering on business goals
- Thinking about to entire customer journey-across every touch point
- Being curious and thinking broadly about the possibilities before narrowing on a solution
- Being data-inspired and running thoughtful experiments
- Being creatively ambitious
What you'll do:
As a Senior UX Designer for the Consumer cross-functional team, you will define the future of consumer. The Consumer business is in need of an overhaul and this role will be the strategic design partner. You will:
- Define, design, and test experiences that allow us to protect the core of the consumer experience while we expand for more in order to facilitate Vista's digital transformation.
- Deeply involved at every stage of the design process-from discovery through detailed design, execution, and iteration-creating high-quality user flows, wireframes, pixel perfect designs, and prototypes, of your own hand or at times by advising more junior designers.
- Partner closely with cross-functional teams, including brainstorming with collaborators around product problems, solutions, requirements and priorities.
- Contribute to the identification and prioritization of strategic product design work, and to how initiatives are explored and implemented upon.
- Partner with data, consumer insights, and UX research partners for foundational guidance on product direction, and new concept validation.
- Ensure cohesiveness with the Vista design system and marketing brand guidelines
- Share and evangelize user-centered design methods across Vista
Your qualifications:
At Vista, we value the experiences that individual team members add to our culture. Please don't hesitate to apply even if you don't meet the exact qualifications, we look forward to learning more about you!
- Demonstrated ability designing digital products
- 2+ years of experience working collaboratively with product, engineering, design, content and user research teams
- Portfolio demonstrating UX and design skills, in multiple case studies that include an end-to-end iterative design process, from the start of a project to completion, with clear rationale going from step-to-step, and meaningful measurable outcomes.
- Experience leveraging quantitative and/or qualitative data to inspire design decisions and solutions
- Ability to move between high level design and detailed design, and between future concepting and near term implementation
- Ability to build strong cross functional relationships with designers, product managers, and engineers
- Ability to clearly present design concepts and solutions to a variety of audiences
- Highly skilled with type, hierarchy, color, composition, contrast, and other graphic design fundamentals
- Passionate about design trends, tools, processes, and methodologies, and willing to learn and share new ideas with the team
- Highly skilled with design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and/or Sketch to create high-fidelity mockups and prototypes
Nice to have:
- Relevant degree in field of Design or HCI
- Experience working with globally distributed teams, and/or in highly matrixed organizations
- Ability to plan, moderate, and execute a variety of goal-oriented workshops across stakeholders, leading to exciting new ideas, new-found consensus, and critical alignment.
- Experience designing across responsible web and native mobile platforms, as well as within large-scale digital ecosystems
- Experience identifying and prioritizing features, as well as participating in complex roadmap planning.
Why you'll love working here:
Being at Vista means that you don't see work as just a building, a desk or a manufacturing floor. You see it as a chance to take a step forward in your career journey - and your life. We strive to give you everything you need to learn, grow, and succeed. Through innovation, collaboration, and perpetual exposure to what's next, we're always pushing boundaries and broadening our horizons. We embrace the chance to operate outside of our comfort zone to discover what we're capable of. Some might call that a challenge; we just call it another great day at work.
Vista has received numerous recognitions including a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2021 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) naming us a Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality. We also earned a place as one of the best remote-first workplaces in the U.S. and on the Boston Best Places to Work list from Built In. In addition, Vistaprint's CEO, Robert Keane, was recently honored with Comparably's Best CEOs award, listing him among the top CEOs according to employees.
Remote-first culture:
In 2021, Vista adopted a Remote-First operating model and culture. We heard from our team members that having the freedom, autonomy and trust in each other to work from home and, the ability to operate when they are most productive, empowers everyone to be their best and most brilliant self. Vista also provides collaboration spaces for team members to work physically together when it's safe to do so or believe in office working will deliver the best results. Currently we are enabled to hire remote team members in over 20 US States as well as several countries in Europe: Spain, Germany, UK, Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
About us:
As an e-commerce powerhouse, Vista creates customer value (and delight) through accessible, cutting-edge technology. We are the marketing partner to millions of small businesses around the world. For more than 20 years, we have helped small businesses look and feel credible through high-quality marketing products and solutions that include signage, logo apparel, promotional products, face masks, flyers, postcards, business cards, websites and digital marketing. With Vista, small businesses are able to create and customize their marketing with easy-to-use digital tools and design-templates, or by receiving expert graphic design support. In 2020, Vista acquired 99designs to expand its design offering via a worldwide community of more than 150,000 talented designers to make it easy for designers and clients to work together to create designs they love. Vista is focused on making great marketing and design accessible to every small business owner, allowing them to create a cohesive brand image for use in-store, online and on-the-go.
Equal opportunity employer:
Vista, a Cimpress company, is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, national or ethnic origin, nationality, age, religion, citizenship, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender presentation, legal or preferred name, marital status, pregnancy, family structure, veteran status or any other basis protected by human rights laws or regulations. This list is not exhaustive and, in fact, in many cases, we strive to do more than the law requires.
Nearest Major Market: Waltham
Nearest Secondary Market: Boston
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