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Where: Wayfair in Boston, MA
Wayfair Inc. offers an extensive selection of home furnishings and décor across all styles and price points. The Wayfair family of brands includes:
- Wayfair.com, an online destination for all things home
- Joss & Main, where beautiful furniture and finds meet irresistible savings
- AllModern, a go-to online source for modern design
- DwellStudio, a design house for fashion-forward modern furnishings
- Birch Lane, a collection of classic furnishings and timeless home décor
Position: UX Designer
Position Details:
Wayfair is looking for a User Experience design professional with a proven record of creating engaging experiences that foster repeat visitation. The ideal candidate is self-directed, analytical, and creative.
Executing interactive design and informing visual design as part of a multi-disciplinary team, the perfect candidate researches UX design trends and lives and breathes e-commerce best practices. At the end of the day, we want natural shoppers with the ability to dive into the customer mindset.
(IA) Information Architect Responsibilities
- Limited ability to produce detailed IA documents, ensuring all details are distinct and user-friendly. All documents must clearly define the scope of the relevant project. These deliverables include: Site maps, user flows/task flows, user journeys, page flows, taxonomies/folksonomies, paths to purchase, etc
Interaction Designer Responsibilities
- Produce fully annotated wireframes and functional specifications
- Make interaction recommendations based on existing Wayfair UX design standards and industry best practices
- Work closely with front end developers to ensure user-facing experiences meet our interaction design standards
- Lead cross-functional design reviews for all necessary deliverables
User Researcher Responsibilities
- Generate design prototypes to utilize during research
- Competitive analysis: Evaluate competitor and industry websites. Provide a meaningful analysis of the findings
- Conduct research that address both user behavior and attitudes
- Conduct research using various qualitative and quantitative methods. This includes first person and remote research.
- Conduct research using the following techniques: Competitive Analysis, User Interviews, Usability Testing, Mall Intercept
General Responsibilities
- Produce design deliverables utilizing the Sketch app
- Determine how HTML, CSS and JavaScript production issues might impact UX decisions and visual design considerations.
Requirements:
- 2+ years of UX design experience for consumers and consumer brands—a big plus if you have experience in e-commerce
- Exceptional knowledge of Sketch, PhotoShop the rest of the Adobe Suite
- Unfailing advocacy for the user. This should be demonstrated in concepts, user flows, wireframes, and features that work across devices to produce a seamless user experience
- Analytical thinking and a love of focusing on things like flow, scenarios, and usability
- Demonstrated passion for mobile design
- Prototyping that brings to life ideas that can be put into seamless user testing
- The confidence and self-motivation to drive forward projects that have unclear direction or unknown variables
- An online portfolio that includes e-commerce work, mobile wireframes, or comps, and demonstrates strategic thinking
To receive full consideration for this position, candidates are asked to submit an application on the Wayfair website.
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