Sr User Experience Product Designer

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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.