Full-Time UX Designer

Who We’re Looking ForWe're reimagining our products to be the ultimate journey for music lovers and record collectors worldwide. This is an opportunity to join us at a pivotal moment as we streamline user flows and introduce a refreshed visual identity. As a UX Designer, you'll play a crucial role in bringing this vision to life, crafting an intuitive and engaging experience that delights our users at every step of their record collecting journey. Please include your most recent portfolio for consideration when applying.

LocationThis is a remote position. Open to candidates located in OR, WA, CA, CO, TX, IL

CompensationStarting Base Salary Range: $80,000 - $89,000

What You’ll Accomplish

• Design and refine user experiences: Create intuitive, engaging, and user-friendly experiences that streamline user flows and adhere to UX best practices.
• Ideate UX solutions with impact and efficiency: Support product squads with UX research, wireframing, rapid prototyping, and information architecture exercises to support the design process, leading to the development of impactful UX solutions that solve user problems.
• Develop UX design deliverables: Produce user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes using Figma.
• Collaborate effectively: Work closely with product managers, developers, design leadership, and the design team to ensure a cohesive experience across platforms (web and mobile).
• Design Review: Engage in regular presentations and design reviews with design and product leadership throughout the design process, showing work early and often, and incorporating feedback into further design revisions until handoff.
• Participate in user research: Gather user feedback through usability testing and research, iterating on designs to continuously improve the user experience.
• Optimize for performance and accessibility: Create user interfaces that are visually appealing, accessible, and optimized for performance across all platforms.
• Collaborate to maintain and enhance the design system: Contribute to and maintain the design system, ensuring consistency across the entire Discogs ecosystem.
• Exercise design thinking: Exercise a human-centered approach to problem-solving and innovation, understanding the needs of users, challenging assumptions, and creating innovative solutions through iterative processes including prototyping and testing.
• Champion design excellence: Strive to improve Discogs’ user experience in both function and form, making a commitment to continuous improvement, and ensuring that every interaction contributes to a seamless and valuable user journey while advocating for diversity and inclusion.
• Elevate Discogs visual design: Incorporate Discogs' new brand identity and the latest UX design trends to create a visually appealing and modern interface.
• Responsive design: translate and optimize design solutions effectively for impact and usability any screen size.
• Requirements
  • Minimum Education and Experience Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university, or equivalent work experience 3+ years related work experience (design experience)

  What You’ll Contribute

  • UX Expertise: Deep understanding of UX principles, user-centered design practices, and interaction design.
  • Design Experience: Proven experience as an UX Designer with a strong portfolio showcasing design projects (using Figma).
  • Design Skills: Expertise in crafting user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups.
  • Design Tools: Demonstrating strong working knowledge of Figma and aptitude to expand skillset.
  • Collaboration and Communication: Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
  • Accountability: Deliver projects on time and in-scope, manage multiple projects, and prioritize tasks effectively.
  • Attention to Detail: Strong attention to detail and a passion for designing beautiful, modern, and user-friendly experiences.
  • Required Skills & Abilities
  • Sound foundational design skills: Demonstrate sound decision making regarding typography, color, scale and proportion, form and shape, visual hierarchy, and overall composition that reflect strong visual communication and effective problem-solving.
  • Accessibility Advocate: Working knowledge of accessibility standards or enthusiasm to learn and implement them.
  • Knowledge of music discographies to improve product information architecture for discovery: Design interfaces for music discography pages, ensuring effortless navigation across search, product pages, and user flows.
  • Optimize UGC content management for enhanced contributions: Refine the user interface and workflows for music data contributions, improving information architecture and categorization to streamline database growth.
  • Understand the user needs of music buyers and record collectors: Conduct in-depth research to understand the unique needs of diverse buyers ranging from music superfans to hardcore record collectors.
  • Elevate the shopping journey through modern UX principles: Implement streamlined information displays, personalized recommendations, advanced search and filtering, and strategic merchandising to create a best-in-class shopping experience.
  • Craft a visually compelling and brand-aligned interface: Apply Discogs' updated brand identity and contemporary UX design trends to modernize the discography and shopping experience, ensuring a visually engaging and cohesive user journey.

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