Sr. UX Architect

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Purpose:

The Senior UX Architect is responsible for leading product design and optimizing user experience for internal and external websites. This role will be involved in UX discovery phases, using Design Thinking to define and solve the right problem. The candidate will be an expert in user interfaces, information architecture, and will utilize a human-centered approach in everything they do. This role will work with closely with UX research, business owners, product managers and engineers during all phases of the project.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Support a unified vision for user interface, experience and visual design across all Pampered Chef offering through design.
  • Master of the UX lifecycle with deep, direct experience in all skill areas and tools, including facilitation of design sprints or other collaboration techniques to drive momentum and credibility within the organization.
  • Optimize information architecture to promote usability while accommodating technical and business constraints.
  • Execute all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering, including the creation of redline documents, detailed user flows, prototypes and wireframes.
  • Collaborate with Research to combine qualitative and quantitative findings with insights from cross-functional teams, and rapidly iterate on solutions.
  • Support multiple Agile sprint teams to achieve business goals through custom software development.
  • Deliver solutions well ahead of product managers needing to build new products.
  • Formally mentor more junior UX Architects in best practices, process and methodology.

Competencies for Success:

  • Balance Stakeholders
  • Communicates Effectively
  • Cultivates Innovation
  • Decision Quality
  • Manages Ambiguity
  • Manages Complexity

Measures of Success:

  • Ability to successfully manage several large projects simultaneously, without missing deadlines.
  • Can use past experience with Agile to drive process improvements for design within a highly collaborative, cross-functional product team.
  • Contributes thought leadership and evangelizes the value of UX to the broader business through lunch & learns, workshops, and other activities.

Education and Experience:

  • Bachelors or Master’s degree in the study of design including one of the following: Design, Information Architecture, Human Factors or equivalent project/portfolio experience.
  • 5+ years of industry experience (preferably in an agile development environment)




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Location

Addison in a village located in the Chicago Metropolitan Area in DuPage County. Pampered Chef is Addison's largest private employer and has had a great relationship with the Village for decades! The village is known for it's great restaurants, adventurous recreational activities, and amazing people.

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