Sr. UI+UX Designer

About the position

The Sr. UX+UI Designer will report to the Director of Digital Product. They will support the Creative & Digital teams at ILIA in website, mobile, desktop projects. Their scope of work involves building a library of design templates, styles, rules, and UX guidelines, including visual design. As the Sr. UI+UX Designer at ILIA, you must be a problem solver, balancing the needs of brand and user experience to design beautiful & functional experiences on our ecommerce site. This role is hybrid and open to candidates based in Los Angeles, CA.

Responsibilities

• Drive UX+UI initiatives to support proper delivery of initiatives across holistic ecommerce roadmap to drive core KPIs for the channel (e.g. engagement rate, add-to-cart-rate, checkout completion rate, etc)
• Conduct UX research and discovery to help inform priorities of existing roadmap and backlog initiatives or to help inform new future roadmap/backlog priorities
• Identify and solve UX+UI issues on the site with the primary focus on moving users through the conversion funnel
• Use a variety of methods to validate design decisions including heat-mapping tools, behavioral insights, fullstory, GA4 google analytics and focus groups to drive customer-first decisions
• Leverage a forward-looking, strategic mindset in UX+UI design, to drive regular evolution of site experience, with a lens to making it easier for consumers to shop, engage, and convert on our site
• Creating & maintaining a UI Library / Design System and ensuring that a consistent design language is applied across the site, email, and platform + app integrations
• Interpret business needs, objectives, and direction from various stakeholders and integrate feedback appropriately into the user experience
• Collaborate with product team weigh in on trade-off discussions with focus across strategic, tactical, and research projects
• Strong project management skills and ability to function as project leader influencing others as well as individual contributors. Able to work well in cross-functional teams—for the UX+UI phase of the project.
• Drive a crawl, walk, run approach to projects balancing a a north star vision while collaborating with product to create an MVP with various constraints
• Produce high-quality UX design solutions through wireframes, FPO visual and graphic designs, flow diagrams, storyboards, site maps, and prototypes
• Partner closely with creative teams and ecommerce team to create fluid designs across all devices and a/b test new user flows.
• Strong communication skills. Able to present and pitch concepts clearly and convincingly to a broad range of audiences from executives to web developers
• Ability to set expectations on timelines for UX deliverables and larger projects and then execute against those timelines while bubbling up dependencies and/or blockers
• Work in an agile methodology, breaking up large projects into manageable chunks in a weekly sprint process
• Contribute to scrum meetings including planning, backlog refinement, stand ups, and retros

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in responsive design and accessible design, with a mobile-first focus in ecommerce and digital shopping experience
• Minimum of 5 years of web, mobile and interface design experience
• Proficiency with Figma design, dev mode, component + style libraries, variables, prototyping, and figjam whiteboard. CodePen and HTML editors to customize and demonstrate interactive features.
• Proficiency in creating, editing, optimizing digital media with Adobe suite (Media Encoder, Photoshop, Premier, Dreamweaver)
• Familiarity with HTML, JavaScript, CSS design
• Has experience creating and applying design systems that enables scalable, responsive websites and apps.
• Fluent in iOS, Android, responsive web UI guidelines, best practices, standards as applied to ILIA design at large.
• Background in ecommerce and digital shopping experiences
• DTC ecommerce experience improving the conversion funnel from the collection, product, cart, to checkout pages
• Experience partnering with technical front-end developers to streamline workflow and feedback
• Extremely detail-oriented, flexible, and able to work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to take a project from concept to launch within our agile ways of working.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate on a cross-functional team
• Obsessed with good user-centered design practices and has an exceptional eye for detail

Nice-to-haves

• Experienced in luxury beauty or fashion brand is plus

Benefits

• $110,000-130,00 annually*
• Bonus Opportunity
• Health Benefits - 100% employer-paid medical, dental & vision coverage
• Flex Time Off - No cap on personal time off and paid company holidays
• Seasonal Flex Days - Flexible scheduling to enjoy extra time under the sun during the Spring & Summer season
• Parental Leave - Up to 18 weeks paid parental leave
• 401(k) - Save for your future with a 401(k) with a company match
• Flexibility & Wellness Stipends - Monthly stipends to support remote work & self-care
• Hybrid Work Model - Find your flow, working from home or from one of our offices
• ILIA Products - Quarterly stipend to replenish your favorite products and try new ones