About the position
This is a temporary position. With every journey, travel has the power to shape us and our world. Begin your journey as the Senior Manager, UX/UI Design System Designer at Marriott International, repeatedly voted one of Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For®. Join our high-energy and talented Associate User Experience & Design team in creating best-in-class digital experiences for one of the most recognized hospitality companies in the world. In this role, you will be responsible for actively designing, expanding and continuously advancing the future of our Marriott associate design system. Your work will involve supporting hands-on efforts, overseeing governance processes, and ensuring that the design system enhances the associate experience across our business. This system will support business, engineering, and design teams in developing tools and experiences that empower our associates to deliver exceptional guest service. You will partner closely with the Director of Associate Experience and Engineering colleagues in driving harmony and connection between products so the overall associate experience is accessible, seamless, easy and intuitive. This position requires the ability to produce designs as an individual contributor while also providing guidance to both internal and external designers. A strong portfolio is critical. Your portfolio should showcase experience in UX, UI, interaction design, and design systems within large-scale organizations, with particular emphasis on accessibility, governance efforts, and documentation.
Responsibilities
- Manage and facilitate office hours for feedback and follow procedures to propose new elements when necessary.
- Champion appropriate patterns, components, and styles during user experience design reviews and workshops.
- Produce sketches, wireframes, personas, journey maps, flows, designs, motion specs, prototypes and/or presentations as needed to communicate experience design and interaction considerations.
- Provide subject matter expertise on key functional systems to help shepherd strategic initiatives from idea to feasible implementation.
- Ensure a quality experience on live digital products by participating in the user acceptance testing process.
- Collaborate with a variety of user experience disciplines within the team to advance your work.
- Deliver measures, and improve designs based on quantitative and qualitative feedback using various user research methodologies.
- Provide accurate estimates as to needed time to complete work to feed project plans.
- Communicate in a timely and appropriate manner with teammates.
Requirements
- 6 years of relevant experience in digital product design.
- 4-year undergraduate degree, with bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience in relevant discipline.
- Experience in multiple of the following user experience disciplines: user experience (UX), interaction design, and visual design.
- Demonstrated proficiency in general usability and transactional design best practices.
- Proven experience with design systems in defining and deploying consistent, reusable componentry and patterns across various product portfolio.
- Proficient in industry best practices for writing technical design system documentation and leading governance process for technical (engineers) and non-technical (designers) audiences.
- Demonstrated expertise in prototyping tools, such as Figma, and its advanced features.
- Proven experience delivering scalable components and UI patterns across platforms (desktop, mobile web, app, etc.).
Nice-to-haves
- Expertise in large-scale global digital entities or other digital products within the hospitality, or travel industry.
- Experience with design systems for both enterprise and customer facing products.
- Superior communication and interpersonal skills including discovery facilitation, presentation, and storytelling.
- Experience influencing partner adoption and making it easy to realize business and development impact.
- Experience with Agile / SAFE development methodologies.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision coverage.
- Health care flexible spending account.
- Dependent care flexible spending account.
- Life insurance.
- Disability insurance.
- Accident insurance.
- Adoption expense reimbursements.
- Paid parental leave.
- 401(k) plan.
- Stock purchase plan.
- Discounts at Marriott properties.
- Commuter benefits.
- Employee assistance plan.
- Childcare discounts.
