UX Designer

The Retail User Experience team seeks a passionate, collaborative, and outgoing candidate to join our fast-paced group. You will have a strong attention to detail throughout the lifecycle of a project, and conduct quality assurance to ensure final product meets UX standards. You will be responsible for creating all UX deliverables for our employee-facing applications. This will support an effort to re-platform an existing application.

User Experience Designer II
Richfield, MN
6 Months
Collaboration is at the center of how we develop experiences and you will be able to hold conversations with, and present to business analysts, business stakeholders, project managers, UX peers, and developers. You should also be comfortable working across multiple projects in a fast-paced environment and have the ability to self-define tasks, deadlines, and next steps as needed.
Position Overview:
Responsibilities/Deliverables that the resource will be responsible for:
- Produce a variety of UX deliverables from information architecture flow to visual design for UI.
- Must understand mobile first and be proficient in designing for touch devices.
- Be responsible for creating flows and wireframes to depict interaction solutions that are in-line with business and IT requirements.
- Be responsible for designing solutions and delivering assets that adhere the Retail Visual Design Language, used to guide all design decisions for our Retail applications
- Able to quickly and seamlessly move between designing for different platforms and fully understand the nuances between all.
- Ability to work with business product owners, IT developers, business analysts, and other project resources.
- Ability to translate business requirements and strategy documents into simple, concise and compelling solutions.
- Ability to present UX work and findings to a variety of audience, including business product owners, IT resources, and senior leaders in the Best Buy enterprise.
- Perform UX quality assurance against developed applications and log defects with development teams.
- Collaborate with other UX resources to deliver the optimal UX solution based on requirements.
- Seek and gain alignment across business and discipline groups.
- Deliver UX assets to third party, off-site development team for implementation.
Skills Overview:
What are the MUST have skills that you are looking for in a candidate?
Qualifications
- Portfolio required for submission (online or PDF is acceptable)
o Portfolio must include user flows, wireframes and visual designs
- Prefer 3+ years' experience delivering digital solutions to a variety of industries, retail experience is beneficial
- Mobile first experience is recommended
- Experience working on website, tablet applications and other touch-based interfaces
- Understanding of HTML/CSS (position does not include front-end development)
- Strong ability to collaborate and assert a point of view positively
- Comfortable with ambiguity
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in user experience design, human factors or similar
- Prototyping skills
- Figma skills
- Sketch
- Jira
- Miro