Senior UX Designer- UX COE (ATL or MSP)

Job Purpose and Impact

• The Senior UX Designer- UX Center of Excellence mentors teams on UX best practices and design methodologies. Under minimal supervision, this role coaches complex user needs and business requirements into web and mobile features, ensuring designs align with brand guidelines and accessibility standards. This job coaches and partners moving to the product model with cross functional teams, including product managers, engineers, business partners, and other designers, to ensure products meet user needs and business goals.

Key Accountabilities

• COACHING: Guide teams in applying UX principles throughout the product lifecycle, foster collaboration, and champion a culture of continuous learning.
• FACILITATION: Lead immersive training programs and UX bootcamps to upskill teams.
• DESIGN CREATION: Uses design tools to draft wireframes, prototypes, and high fidelity mockups to effectively communicate design ideas, concepts and strategies while finding opportunities of improvement.
• USER RESEARCH & ANALYSIS: Researches and assesses user behavior and preferences through interviews, surveys and usability testing to gather insights and understand user perspectives on ease of use, value perception, utility, efficiency and other metrics in order to inform design decisions, and analyzes research data to drive continuous improvement.
• DESIGN ITERATION: Incorporates feedback from users and other partners to refine designs, creating wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes to visualize design concepts and user flows, and leads iteration on designs based on feedback to improve user experiences.
• COLLABORATION: Coaches product managers, developers and other partners to gain understanding of user needs and business goals while designing visually appealing and user friendly interfaces that align with brand guidelines and improve the overall user experience, and ensures designs are responsive and accessible across various devices and platforms.
• DOCUMENTATION DEVELOPMENT: Prepares and reviews user personas, journey maps, and other user experience documentation to support design processes.
• BRAND CONSISTENCY: Provides oversight to ensure designs are consistent with brand guidelines and accessibility standards.
• USER EXPERIENCE BEST PRACTICES: Researches, coaches other team members and stays up-to-date with industry trends and standard methodologies in user experience design to drive continuous improvement of user experience design practices.
• USABILITY TESTING: Teaches usability testing to evaluate the effectiveness of design solutions, analyzes test results and iterates on designs to influence on improvement usability and user satisfaction.
• TOOLING: Applies proficiency in product design and prototype tooling and indepth knowledge of user testing software.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.

Short Description
Minnesota Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 48 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.
The expected salary for this position is $95,000 - $155,000. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific location, certifications, education, and level of experience. The disclosed range estimate may be adjusted for any applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. This position is eligible for a discretionary incentive award. The incentive award amount is dependent upon company performance and your personal performance. At Cargill we put people first. As part of your overall rewards, we offer a comprehensive benefit program including medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked. Visit: https://www.cargill.com/page/my-health/mh-health-and-wellness to learn more (subject to certain collective bargaining agreements for Union positions).