UX Architect / Principal UX Designer

Summary

The job is for a UX Architect position at Braintrust, a talent network company. It's a freelance role with a duration of 30 hours per week and an hourly rate between $100 - $125. The candidate should have 5-10 years of experience in digital design, UI/GUI, full-stack product design, and leadership roles.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (or equivalent experience)
• 8+ Years of experience in Digital design, UI+GUI, full-stack product design
• Stellar portfolio demonstrating both technical skills & creative thinking
• 3+ years of experience leading UX workshops as a sole UX leader
• Worked with SAAS products, platforms, or eCommerce tools in the past

Responsibilities

• Be a core UX member and the top experience-level peer in our Product Design team, driving fast-paced as well as long and hefty projects from inception to the finish line
• Take part in holding lead-review sessions diligently (especially on Low-fidelity prototypes) while consistently incorporating best practices & UX standards in your ongoing feedback
• Initiate and drive user discovery sessions, design thinking discussions, and journey/empathy mapping workshops to unlock a cohesive understanding of our users’ pain points & blockers
• Deliver designs on-time for our sprint cycles, and do so continuously while constantly raising the quality bar
• Lead design-centric projects hands-on from beginning to end; through internal + exec reviews, internal testing, and UAT insight to pixel-perfection

Preferred Qualifications

• Have an engineering/industrial/graphic Masters's degree
• Have eCommerce and/or Marketplace experience
• Worked in an agency, creative studio, or startup before
• Have experience involving Accessibility best practices