Lead User Experience Designer

Job Number: 21815

Position Title: Lead User Experience Designer

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Lead User Experience (UX) Designer - Informatica Cloud

Job Description

Our Company

Informatica is the only Enterprise Cloud Data Management leader that accelerates data-driven digital transformation. Informatica enables companies to unleash the power of data to become more agile, realize new growth opportunities, lead to new inventions resulting in intelligent market disruptions. With over 7,000 customers worldwide, Informatica is the trusted leader in Enterprise Cloud Data Management. 

Our Team

The User Experience (UX) team is the driving force behind the design and usability of Informatica’s Enterprise Cloud data-management products. We are a globally diverse, world-class team of designers and researchers who shape the user experiences and innovation initiatives of Informatica’s products. We are a creative, collaborative, and fun team. We also care deeply about each team member’s professional growth and development.

Your Opportunity

For the past three years, Gartner has ranked Informatica as the number one Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solution provider worldwide - accounting for 19 percent of the global iPaaS market share. We have been a pioneer in cloud integration and currently process more than 1.5 million jobs with Informatica Cloud every day. In short, we are part of a high-growth area shaping the face of today’s enterprise hybrid cloud solutions. Our customers rely on Informatica Cloud to support a wide range of business initiatives with our data-integration, application-integration, process-integration, data-quality, master-data-management (MDM), data-security, B2B-integration, and data-preparation offerings. As a Lead UX designer, your designs would shape the next generation of Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services and accelerate our customers’ data-driven digital transformations.

We are seeking a talented, multi-dimensional, Lead UX Designer who excels at: applying state-of-the-art user-centered design (UCD) techniques; working with diverse internal and external stakeholders; and designing rich, scalable, elegant, and productivity-enhancing interactive software. This Lead UX Designer knows how to design easy-to-understand solutions for complex usage scenarios, and is skilled at delivering designs that help end users do their jobs efficiently and effectively.

Our Ideal Candidate

You are highly experienced at designing user-centered UX for enterprise applications. You have designed web-based, Cloud applications. You have also worked with other UX designers, researchers, and product team members to deliver best practices in user-centered design, information architecture, and interaction design. You enjoy working with product managers to understand and define business requirements, but you are also comfortable discussing technical capabilities and constraints with software developers. Most importantly you relish interacting with customers, validating your designs / prototypes, and then improving them based on their feedback.

Your Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be based at our spectacular Redwood City, CA campus and will be responsible for:

• Planning and designing our next-generation Cloud solutions.
• Delivering UX designs as part of cross-functional teams (Product Managers, Developers, UX Designers, and UX User Researchers) to create innovative user experiences for new and extended product offerings.
• Helping plan and conduct stakeholder interviews.
• Synthesizing results from user research into coherent designs.
• Creating information architectures, task flows, user-interaction models, sketches, wireframes, prototypes, detailed designs, design briefs, design specs and guidelines with little direction.
• Influencing product teams and the organization to achieve solutions that are right for our customers.
• Fostering a fun, creative, collaborative team spirit.

Qualifications

Your Qualifications

• A minimum of 6 years designing user interfaces and experiences for web-based software.
• Demonstrated experience conducting user-centered design projects.
• Proven ability to generate end-to-end designs - from concept through production detailing.
• Demonstrated experience developing and communicating UX design guidelines and design specifications.
• Proven effectiveness working in cross-functional teams that include product management, engineering, marketing, and other UX professionals
• Demonstrated proficiency with prototyping tools such as Fireworks, Illustrator, Axure, Photoshop, Balsamiq, Visio, etc.
• Familiarity with user research methods, and how these are used to support the design process.
• Excellent written and verbal skills.
• Masters’ degree or equivalent experience in HCI, Industrial Design, Engineering Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Computer Science, or a related discipline.

Additional Information

Informatica offers a competitive compensation package that includes base salary, medical, retirement, flexible time off and more. Our generous benefits vary depending on your geographic work location. It’s an exciting time to work at Informatica. You can learn more about our company, our products and services at www.informatica.com. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).

City: Redwood City

State: California

Seniority Level: Mid-Senior Level

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At Informatica we know diversity drives innovation. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to maintaining a work environment free from discrimination, one where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law and Informatica policy.

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