Sr. Experience Designer, Cross-Cloud E2E Systems

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Sr. Experience Designer, Cross-Cloud E2E Systems for a Contract assignment with one of our premier SaaS clients in San Francisco, CA. This position is Hybridif local to offices in San Francisco, CA, San Jose, CA,Seattle, WA, Washington, DC, Portland, OR, New York, NY, Arden Hills, MN, Los Angeles, CA, Lehi, UT, Emeryville, CA, Denver, CO, Chicago, IL, College Park, MD, Boston, MA, or Austin, TX.

• Meaningful Ownership. Be seen as a leader and driver by guiding strategy and executing user
• experiences from concept to ship.
• Lead. Develop our platform design system framework; drive reuse and extensibility in experiences that you create
• Systems Thinking. Evolve our Cross-Cloud experiences by considering multiple touchpoints and systems to create cohesive end to end experiences across surfaces, apps, teams, and technologies.
• Simplify. Translate complex problems into 'simple' practical design solutions that are grounded in user research and data.
• Collaborate. Drive collaboration with multiple project partners, including product managers, engineers, marketing managers and other designers.
• Visualize. Bring design to life. Articulate the need and proposed solutions through sketches, storyboards, hi-fidelity mockups, prototypes, or animations across all levels of the organization.

• History and passion for developing design systems and creating unified patterns across teams.
• Experience using design thinking and service design tools to tackle complex business problems.
• Experience (and a love of!) solving sophisticated design and technology problems using systems thinking.
• Experience driving collaboration on teams with many moving parts and partners
• A proven track record of delivering designs that meet user needs and business requirements.
• Experience designing for SaaS products and enterprise UX.
• A desire to go beyond pixels. You seek to have an influential role with the product team as a driver for design process and product strategy.
• Creative and analytical skills to facilitate research, synthesize and communicate insights that inspire design opportunities.
• Ability to create mechanisms and processes to deliver quality product experiences in an effective, predictable way.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Comfort giving and receiving critique in regular design and experience reviews.
• Strong prototyping skills, and the ability to find the right balance of fidelity vs. speed to reliably convey key concepts. Prototyping animations, interactions, and hover states is a plus.
• Ability to communicate designs and strategy persuasively and concisely to all functions and levels, including executives.

• Mentor, management and leadership experience
• Service, ecosystems, strategic, or systems design background
• Platform design for a multi-product portfolio