UX Designer

It’s the magic of immersing yourself in a motion picture masterpiece, or a new track from your favorite band, or the spectacle of a live Broadway show.  It’s hard to define and even harder to create, but that’s what we do at The Walt Disney Studios.  Ours is a culture of innovation, collaboration, and creativity.  We raise the bar, then step over it, blazing trails through the production and distribution of world class entertainment around the globe.  If you want to help tell compelling, enduring stories through movies, music or stage plays, then we want to hear from you.

Job Overview

As a UX Designer, you have a strong technical background and work closely with Engineers, Product Owners, Business Analysts and Lead User Experience Designers to translate complex business requirements to intuitive, usable, and efficient enterprise products. Your job is to make sure that our products are intuitive, accessible, and usable to our Cast Members (employees). You're a well-rounded individual, organized, and extremely collaborative with strong interaction, visual, and problem-solving abilities, a passion for simplifying a complex problem space, and a desire to craft delightful, useful, and efficient experiences for our users. You design and lead the Ul construction for complex projects with a broad scope and evolving objectives. You contribute to the overall product strategy through concept generation, prototyping, and close collaboration with the Lead UX. You craft and conduct experiments with real users to validate and improve the experience. You'll be joining a talented (and friendly!) team of UX designers, product owners and engineers who are bringing great design into the enterprise space at the Walt Disney Studios. We focus primarily on products that are used by our Cast Members (employees). This position reports to the Senior Manage.

Responsibilities

• Assume the role of the user's voice in your cross-functional group in order to help to define product requirements.
• Execute innovative interaction design concepts in a fast-paced environment while always keeping user needs at the forefront.
• Advise and collaborate with Lead UX designers, engineers and researchers to refine user interactions from concept to release.
• Strategize, brainstorm, and define approaches that optimize design implementation.
• Proactively look for opportunities for reuse. Adhere to the interaction style guide and interaction uniformity within and across projects.
• Contribute and execute against the current design strategy and direction.
• Ensure the delivery of designs and prototypes are appropriate for the engineering team.
• Create new designs, including (but not limited to) user flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes.
• Communicate design intent to both internal and external teams.
• Clearly rationalize and justify design work and advocate for users' needs.
• Collaborate with, and develop mutual respect and trust with, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Engineers.
• Participate in user experience research and usability studies.
• Rapidly iterate on development of prototypes based on input from user testing

Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in Interaction Design, Information Architecture or User Experience positions, designing for web applications.
• Bachelor's degree in a design-related field (human-computer interaction, human factors, or graphic design), or equivalent practical work experience.
• Excellent visual and design skills with a strong understanding of user-centered design principles and design thinking methods
• Strong proficiency with interaction design/UX principles and skills creating design deliverables including lA documentation, journey maps, rapid prototyping, site maps, concept diagrams, user scenarios, wireframes, flows, and annotated comps.
• Ability to anticipate and design for user needs by incorporating research, strategy and analytics.
• Ability to create complex, high fidelity prototypes using Figma.
• Working experience with design tools like Figma & Adobe Creative Cloud.
• Solid understanding of web and mobile (native) technologies.
• Strong process orientation and documentation abilities.
• A passion for data and enterprise grade applications.
• Ability to work independently, while escalating issues as necessary.
• Experience with agile development methodology and ability to work in a fast-paced, demanding environment with aggressive development schedules.
• Excellent visual/verbal communicator with strong presentation and storytelling skills (i.e. ability to present to various levels/groups)

The hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA is $104,600 to $140,200 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.