Staff - UX Designer
WHO WE ARE
We're one of the world's largest food and beverage companies and a trusted producer of high-quality, great-tasting, and nutritious foods, earning us a spot on 97% of American household tables. As the guardians of our beloved brands and the creators of innovative products, we're dedicated To Sustainably Grow by Delighting More Consumers Globally.
Today, The Kraft Heinz Company is building a new legacy by investing in a robust Digital infrastructure to revolutionize the food and beverage industry. We are on a journey to create a digitally-powered, agile-enterprise – all while honoring a 150-year heritage and a portfolio of 200 iconic brands. At the heart of this journey is our ambition to create an environment where powerful AI solutions augment humans and where small mission-based teams relentlessly pursue tangible solutions for our consumers, customers, and the enterprise.
That ambition requires us to create a modern cloud and data ecosystem - a one of its kind that becomes the neural network of our company. We want you to bring your tech-self to us. We use Python, R, Spark, React, Tableau, Snowflake, Azure, and others to solve our business challenges. You can look forward to high-impact, no bureaucracy, entrepreneurial work – done in small teams – and a unique opportunity to create something bold, something awesome, something inventive -- and something globally impactful.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
The Staff User Experience Designer is a critical partner in driving the growth and expansion of the UX practice at Kraft Heinz. You are responsible for helping to create a world-class digital ecosystem, as we transform the ways that team members from across the org access their data, insights, analytics and reports. You partner with teams to lead, define and conduct research, user interviews, usability tests, ideation workshops, wireframing and prototyping.
You will work closely with the Head of Design to develop, advise and evangelize process and design ops across project types while injecting a human-centered approach into every conversation. This role begins as an individual contributor with significant growth opportunities either through personnel management or IC track.
You will:
- Inject design into the product development lifecycle through each stage: ideation, concepting, feasibility, development, deployment, QA, analysis.
- Lead formal usability testing sessions (on-site and remote).
- Conduct user research by using and/or creating personas, behavioral archetypes, site maps, user flows, user interviews, card sorting, hero journeys, competitive audits and market research.
- Assume a research-based approach when building out wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes for review, stakeholder signoff and handoff to engineering.
- Demonstrate excellence in presenting designs and defending solutions with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Lead requirements gathering sessions, IA/sitemap development.
- Apply user-centered design, behavioral pattern development and human factors standards as the lens through which all projects are approached and solutions presented.
- Demonstrate a deep industry knowledge of web and mobile design standards to inform decision-making and elevation of the broader team, methodically defining our standards for the design practice at Kraft Heinz.
WHO YOU ARE
- 7+ years of experience working in UX/UI design roles and evangelizing Design Thinking across multi-disciplinary teams.
- A critical, confident and clear voice for UX and design-centered thinking within Kraft Heinz.
- Outstanding oral and written communication skills.
- Capable of verbally defending and compromising on design solutions, embracing an agile, iterative approach to excellence when necessary.
- Demonstrate the skills to empathize with users.
- Able to apply a keen business sense in understanding the balance between perfection and deployment obligations.
- Ability to solution across devices, frameworks, platforms, responsive states etc.
- Expertise working within and contributing to design systems that consistently scale across platforms.
- Deep understanding of BI/Analytics, data visualization design and report modeling.
- Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Tableau, PowerBI, React, Microstrategy.
WHY US?
We're accelerating our ambition to become a best-in-class Digital leader by making data-driven investments that drive smarter business decisions. As the guardians of 200 beloved brands and the creators of innovative products, we're dedicated To Sustainably Grow by Delighting More Consumers Globally. What we build today helps bring joy to customers, consumers, and communities around the world tomorrow. Ready to build the future of food, now? Have a seat at our table and join our Digital Revolution.
Ready to help future-proof our legacy? Join our table, and Let's Make Life Delicious!
Equal Opportunity Employer – minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity