Senior UX/UI Designer - Restaurants Team
TripAdvisor provides a unique, global work environment that captures the speed, innovation and excitement of a startup, at a thriving, growing and well-established industry brand. At TripAdvisor, you will be part of a dynamic, fun, and energetic team where you can immediately make meaningful contributions.
Ready to play an important role at TripAdvisor, the world's largest travel site? As a key member of our fast-growing Restaurants team, the UX/UI Designer will work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and a broad range of internal stakeholders to create a best-in-class user experience that will impact the daily lives of Restaurant owners and consumers. Reporting to the Restaurant’s Associate Director of Product Design, you’ll be part of a dynamic and collaborative environment that fuses the speed, innovation and excitement of a start-up with the stability and resources of a global industry leader.
In short: Awesome brand. Global audience. Collaborative environment. Cool teams. Free lunches. Free AM & PM shuttles to/from the city, Dog-friendly. Design & influence for a living.
What you’ll do
Work with the Restaurants group’s product design team, primarily on the owner-facing Management Center Web app, as well as the consumer-facing responsive website and native app
Partner cross-functionally with product and engineering to translate business and users’ goals into elegant but practical designs that deliver on key business and user metrics
Design and specify user interfaces and information architecture using participatory and iterative design techniques, including observational studies, customer interviews, usability testing, and other forms of requirements discovery
Hands-on production of user requirements, storyboards, wireframes, scenarios, flowcharts, design prototypes, and design specifications
Collaborate with a variety of stakeholders to brainstorm new products, features and functionalities that enhance our mobile and web experiences
Independently provide strategic design solutions that demonstrate user-centered-design thinking
Explain rationale behind creative decisions based on best practice
Be a voice of the restaurant owner and consumer, advocating for solutions that deliver the best user experience with a consideration of available site data, internal studies, and industry best practices
Apply metrics & KPI models to help support design decisions
Drive and/or collaborate on all cyclical user testing sessions and independently seek out relevant research to inform design executions
Actively share UX/UI and UCD best practices and tools with team and business partners, identifying ways to leverage them for efficiency and optimal design solutions
Help create, maintain and enforce the brand book, templates, style guides and toolkits
What we’re looking for
5-9 years of experience designing for responsive web and mobile
Online portfolio that showcases your design chops and demonstrates originality, innovation, and strong problem solving skills
Shipped B2B products and understand what it takes to create delightful, business-oriented as well as consumer-oriented experiences
Comfortable designing within iOS and Android native platform guidelines
Talent for managing multiple projects simultaneously, from concept to completion; exhibit flexibility and ability to create multiple creative concepts within our “speed wins” framework
Excellent communicator who has conviction to champion your point of view, but can also successfully collaborate with others
A “do-er” who’s excited about working in a fast-paced environment with the chance to work with top collaborators in different disciplines
Curiosity of the restaurant industry — and has a passion for food
- Expert knowledge of design and prototyping tools such as Sketch, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Invision, Axure, etc.
Illustration skills also a huge plus!
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