Senior User Experience Designer

Overview At SolarWinds, we’re a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, Partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions.The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We’re looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you’re looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you’ve come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us! Plays a key role in shaping and improving the design and user experience of our current and future products. Works collaboratively with cross-functional teams including product managers, engineering, and other company stakeholders, leading UX throughout the planning and development lifecycle Responsibilities Drive a user-centered design approach. Work with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to discover and understand user needs and requirements to turn high level product requirements into workflows and designs. Interpret analytics data from product usage, usability testing, and other sources. Champion the user while defining user experience opportunities and identifying use cases. Create detailed user interface (UI) mockups and detailed UI and visual design specifications. Take a complex, technical problem and make an attractive, easy-to-use UI. Create clickable prototypes for remote usability testing. Conduct informal feature walkthroughs, usability studies, and other user research activities with the best users on the planet (primarily using remote meeting technology). Rapidly iterate and launch follow-up usability tests or studies – thoughtfully incorporating user, developer, and product manager feedback into design revisions. Share and communicate designs with cross-functional, worldwide teams for review and feedback. Contribute to user interface design and development best practices and standards. Qualifications At least 2 years experience in product design Experience improving UX based on test results and data Strong visual design skills Portfolio demonstrating excellence in digital product design, including wireframes, sitemaps, and user flows Proficiency with wireframing and prototyping tools Collaborative, team player with excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal, and analytical skills Natural creative flare with a passion for user focused design Experience working in an Agile development environment Extensive prototyping experience Proficiency with Figma and Sketch Experience with HTML/CSS is a plus