The UI/UX Designer III is a senior role within the UI/UX Job Family focusing on delivering best-in-class user experiences for our internal and external users. This position plays an instrumental role in the technical components of the UI/UX Designs, ensuring the smooth user experiences can easily be translated into technical code and capabilities. This role serves as a senior technical role, able to translate complex designs and concepts into streamlined designs and capabilities. As a UI/UX Designer III, you will be viewed as a subject matter expert and specialist in this field.

Primary Responsibilities

• Experience and knowledge of UX principles, methodologies, and design best practices. This includes user centered design, user research methodologies, and accessibility standards.

• Capable of researching and gathering in-depth insights into a user’s needs through a variety of techniques including user observation, group facilitation, storyboarding, etc.

• Creates wireframes, design specifications, prototypes, and user flow diagrams that articulate complex user journeys across multiple webpages, touchpoints, and platforms.

• Experience converting complex business processes into simple, logical, easy to use systems and skilled in page design, organization, and structure of content.

• Works alongside product and development team to define user requirements.

• Ensures design standards and guidelines are maintained and shared with development teams to guide product design.

• Strong active listening and collaboration skills.

• Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal.

• Sufficient understanding of project management approaches, tools, and phases of the delivery lifecycle (Scrum, Kanban, Lean) and experience in JIRA, Confluence, or equivalent documentation tools.

• Participate in end-to-end design reviews with project teams.

• Advocate and lead UX discussions with project teams.

• Consider existing insights, technical constraints, business needs, and specific platform demands to produce user centered, data driven, and design focused solutions.

• Advocate and evangelize user centered design and research best practices.

• Advocate and lead UX discussions with project teams.

• Consider existing insights, technical constraints, business needs, and specific platform demands to produce user centered, data driven, and design focused solutions.

• Create and provide tools that help guide teams on their journey to usable and intuitive design.

• Play an active role in partnering with cross-functional team members in leading cohesive design standards and best practices across the enterprise.

• Mentor and coach Team Members on usability and design best practices.

Primary Qualifications

• Associate or bachelor’s degree preferred but not required.

• 4+ years recent experience in visual design craftsmanship, combined with a keen ability to anticipate and address user needs.

• Professional level knowledge of industry-standard design software (Figma, Adobe Creative Suites)

• Experience with integration platforms such as Marketing Cloud, Salesforce, Appian or similar.

• Experience with both public facing and internally facing web applications.

• Experience in responsive frontend development (HTML, CSS, Sass, etc.) and frameworks/libraries or design systems (Material Design, etc.).

Technical Skills

• Aesthetic Design

• Agile Software Development

• Content Management Systems

• Information Architecture

• Persona (User Experience)

• Responsive Web Design

• Stakeholder Management

• UI/UX Strategy

• User Experience (UX) Design

• Visual Design

• Wireframing

Behavioral Competencies

• Active Listening

• Analytical Thinking

• Collaboration and Teamwork

• Creativity and Innovation

• Decisiveness

• Planning and Priority Setting

• Quality Focus

• Time Management

• Applying Standard Practices

• Managing Innovation

Why Clayton?

Clayton is committed to opening doors to a better life. Clayton is a leading single-family, values-driven home builder dedicated to attainable housing, sustainable practices and creating a world-class experience for customers and team members. Our company portfolio includes a broad offering of attainable housing, and as a vertically integrated home builder, we are uniquely positioned to serve customers through every stage of the homeownership journey – building, selling, financing, and insuring homes.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits including 401(k) with 100% company match of the first 4%; medical, dental and vision plans; paid time off days and holidays.

• Quarterly bonus program.

• Recognized as one of East Tennessee’s top technology workplaces.

• Wellness programs that focus on emotional, social, spiritual, intellectual, environmental, physical, and financial well-being.

• Onsite fitness facility with full gym, workout classes, volleyball and basketball, ping-pong, and disc golf course.

• Paid Time Off for Volunteer work.

Why Clayton?

Clayton is a leading single-family, values-driven home builder dedicated to attainable housing, sustainable practices and creating a world-class experience for customers and team members. Quarterly profit share bonus program. Onsite gym with variety of classes, wellness, professional and personal development programs and much more! Clayton is committed to creating an inclusive workplace. Clayton is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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