Sr User Experience Product Designer

About Us: Imagine Your Future with Us Since 1971, Paychex has been at the forefront of simplifying HR, payroll, and benefits for American businesses. Our digital HR technology and advisory solutions cater to the changing needs of employers and their employees. With our award-winning training and endless opportunities for growth and development, you can build a lifelong career with us. We pride ourselves on fostering an inclusive and innovative culture. Our leaders are here to support your career journey; they and our dedicated employees embody the values that drive us to support each other, our clients, and our communities. Join us to pursue your passion and unleash your potential. Overview: The Sr. User Experience Product Designer is a passionate, collaborative UX practitioner who is a clear and confident visual storyteller. You will be involved in every step of design, including research, ideation, mapping user flows, prototyping, creating mockups, and designing high-fidelity UIs. At Paychex, senior designers mentor other designers, guide the vision for projects, and build meaningful relationships with our Product, Architecture, and Development partners. You will be expected to cultivate a strong working knowledge of our business and technology platform, and help inform our product roadmap. Responsibilities: - Guide design projects from initial concept through release. - Provides review and stewardship of design efforts in a specific domain area. - Collaborate with product management, user research, content strategists, and developers to creatively solve user needs. - Lead planning activities, leveraging quantitative and qualitative research data to inspire product experiences that delight users. Advocate for user research and usability testing. - Manage multiple complex design projects. Transform complex interactions, research, and requirements into tangible products with a clear, usable, and desirable outcome for users. - Contribute and suggest improvements to our design system. - Mentor and coach junior designers. Proactively help other designers level up their craft expertise. - Sketch, wireframe, and create mockups and prototypes for web, mobile, smart watch, and smart speakers using modern design tools (e.g. Sketch, InVision, Zeplin). Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree in HCI, interaction design, UX, CS - Required - Master's Degree in HCI, interaction design, UX, CS - Preferred - 6 years of experience in Professional product design experience, preferably working on B2B applications. Portfolio that showcases exceptional design, highlighting process and methods used to solve real-world problems. Experience working with design systems or pattern libraries. Skill/Ability - Expertise with UI technologies (CSS, HTML/XHTML, JavaScript) and adaptive/responsive design. Proficient in UX design process, familiarity with UX research, and working with a team - Experienced in Figma - Collaboration tools like Miro - Generative AI familiarity within the design practice - Focused on details and extremely organized - Open to feedback, with a desire to grow and learn new skills - Willing to collaborate with stakeholders across several teams. Demonstrated ability to communicate design concepts clearly across different audiences and varying levels - Empathetic and compassionate about the people who use our products - Strong ability to sketch, wireframe, and create high fidelity interactive protoypes - Strong working knowledge and hands-on experience with creating motion-based design elements and animations - Working knowledge and practical experience with designing voice interactions. Prior experience with Google DialogFlow and Microsoft Bot Framework preferred Live the Paychex Values: - Act with uncompromising integrity. - Provide outstanding service and build trusted relationships. - Drive innovation in our products and services and continually improve our processes. - Work in partnership and support each other. - Be personally accountable and deliver on commitments. - Treat each other with respect and dignity. Not sure if you meet every requirement?: At Paychex, we know that great talent comes in many forms. If you're passionate about the role but don't check every box, we still encourage you to apply. You might be the right fit - either for this position or another opportunity with us. Paychex is an equal opportunity employer that fosters a workplace culture of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. Our valued employees and commitment to DEI are the essence of our internal and external success.