Senior UI/UX Designer

Remote | Full Time

Zonda is redefining the future of housing. We are perfectly placed in the heart of the fast-growing real estate industry. We are making big bets on the future of real-estate, trailblazing a 2030 vision for the industry. Here at Zonda, you’ll be able to use your passion and curiosity to drive the next generation of real estate analysts, advisors, and technologists.

We're looking for a passionate Senior UI/UX Designer to evolve and extend our brand, expand our marketing practice and map a new chapter together. Zonda looks for people who can grow, think, dream, and create. When you join our team, you’ll be in a unique position to make a change with every project. You’ll use your full range of skills to build great experiences and learn about the real estate industry, economics, and data. You’ll be supported with the necessary tools, and you'll be working with an awesome and like-minded team. Our teams are innovative, diverse, multidisciplinary, and collaborative - all working to build the future of housing.

You'll be the founding member of the Zonda brand team, joining our Senior Design Director, Brand to expand the recent rebrand, design new data product, event and media experiences. There are countless strategic challenges that we are excited to solve with you in our portfolio. You’ll be in a unique position to make a change with every project.

You’ll use your full range of skills to build great experiences. The brand design team works super closely with the product design team, together our designers maintain our design system Lexicon (Lex), introduce the latest best practices, and tackle new domains. You’ll also learn about the real estate industry, economics, and data. You’ll be supported with tools you need, and you'll be working with an awesome and like-minded team.

Responsibilities:

• Be the trailblazer and a change agent for the industry by articulating strong ideas and vision for the future
• Scale brand strategy, design experiences and advanced interactions across our platforms
• Ship new work, caliber quick fixes, optimize all of the platforms for a seamless and low-friction experience
• Run design engagements across the horizon with cross-functional team for internal and external product
• Architect elegant design systems with diligent decision documentation to simplify decision making
• Be a design champion and a user advocate to diplomatically facilitate execution to our values and ethics
• Work independently, maintain speed and throughput, support your teammates and scout feedback
• Build relationships across orgs to facilitate trust and make time to get buy-off from other disciplines
• Model collaboration skills, guide people in processes, expand our culture, and improve efficiency
• Set expectations, work in iterative loops, meet deadlines and complete projects
• Grow and evolve with the organization and allocation, stretch in new roles and responsibilities
• As a remote team, willingness to travel and meet-up for facetime for internal and external meetings

Requirements:

• Experience: 5-7 years at an agency or in-house launching products, brands, services, and experiences with learning mindset across web, email, 3rd party tools and print. Clear understanding of portfolio companies and business models (sas, data, media).
• Portfolio: Documentation of beautiful consumer or business applications cross-platform with respect to understanding complex UR/UX/UI/CT systems, scale, demonstrating business and technical intel.
• Education: Undergrad or grad training in HCI, Human Factors, UX/UI, New Media, interaction and experience design, with passion for emerging technologies.
• UX Research & Discovery: Experience interviewing internal and external stakeholders, learning new industries and domains, inspiration sourcing, running workshops & exercises, structuring design scope, quantitative and qualitative research, visualizing clear findings and socializing learnings across the company with the razor focus on customer needs.
• UX Strategy & Synthesis: Distill complicated problems into elegant solutions, understanding and communicating the technical limitations, articulating the design POV liberties behind your decisions, facilitating mappings, audits and study of multiple paths to pursue creative problems that tie to KPIs.
• UX Design: Portfolio work demonstrating work with sketching, user experience wireframe flows with attention to micro-interactions, prototyping, spec-ing and testing. Translating feedback to iterate relentlessly, knowing how to address objections and questions, generate and prioritize concepts, refined aesthetic and polished execution, push the limits of interfaces, work with and expand upon the design system, and managing the backlog. Own brand consistency and reinforce our brand and personality, balance big picture thinking with delightful execution and uphold quality.
• UX Writing: Drive content strategy, audits, taxonomies, creative writing, voice and tone. Guiding creative writing for editorial, marketing, support, sales teams in creating systems and corporate culture.
• Design Lifecycle: Own complete end-to-end solutions throughout the build cycle from sprint to release through phases of research, conception, execution to hand-off of assets and requirements, supporting excellence all the way through QA to go live.
• Design Community: Life-long learner following industry leaders and sharing best practices along the way.
• Teaming: Detail oriented, organized, clear communicator, self-starter, participatory, flexible, open-minded optimistic, generative, visionary and open new ideas and ways of working, hungry to innovate.
• Leadership: Radiate information, make intros and connections, model culture and creative values in the organization, be the team ambassador on projects, helpful in design crits and reviews.
• Project Management: Come prepared to weekly stand-ups, bring your best client facing skills to meetings, be prepared to work and learn, set deadlines, take notes and ownership of next steps. Execute meticulously in a fast-paced environment with ambiguity. Ability to multitask and prioritize in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Tools: Awesome in Figma, Sketch, Adobe, Invision, tinkerer & always exploring

Why People Love Working Here

• We offer meaningful work and opportunities for career growth
• Competitive Salary
• Comprehensive benefit package (Medical, Dental, Vision)
• Paid vacation and general holidays
• Education Allowance
• Employee & Family Assistance Program (EFAP)

Inclusion & Equal Opportunity Employment

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, inclusion & belonging. People seeking employment at BuzzBuzzHome are considered without regard to any protected category including but not limited to, race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

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