Senior Staff, UX Designer

Lab Summary: 

Samsung Design Innovation Center is one of the leading overseas design studio in Samsung, located in San Francisco, CA. Our mission is to understand people and lifestyles to deliver meaningful experiences, through beautiful yet functional design, enabled by innovative cutting-edge technologies.

SDIC is working on various advanced product experiences which can envision and shape the future of Samsung Business, working with various different internal teams through experience driven approach. Our work appears on smartphones, tablets, computers, televisions, wearables, and other devices we can’t describe yet. See some of our work at http://design.samsung.com/global/contents/sdic/ 

We design future experience-driven innovation opportunities with empathy and compassion for people across the Samsung business portfolio. We design experiences based on in-depth user and market research to find insights and foresights as the foundation of problem identification.

We are looking for a talented designers, strategists and creative technologists to join our group and bring new energy to our process. You should be ready to help at all stages of product design, from identifying unmet and latent needs, discovering new design opportunities, designing new product concepts to applying technology creatively to solve real user problems and create radically new experiences that re-imagine the way we interact with products. 

Position Summary:

The Senior UX Designer is responsible for creating beautiful, functional and desirable experiences, interfaces and services across a wide array of technologies. You will be able to identify users unmet needs via conducting various types of user research activities and understand how people use products, systems, or services to craft the desired user experience. You should be ready to work on all spectrum of experience design touch points/user journey and able to formulate the tangible solutions.

We are interested in passionate and self-motivated individuals who are comfortable in a highly fluid environment. You will bring drive, smarts, and curiosity; we will provide the environment for you to thrive and grow.

• Project Leadership
• Strong experiences in User Experience and Interaction Design
• Ability to think and act strategically and proactively
• Dedicated and strong attention to detail
• Strong time management skills
• Resource and project management skills
• Ability to facilitate a creative workshop with a variety of stakeholders
• A strong sense of self-motivation and a creative approach to problem solving
• Ability to collaborate well across disciplines for creating impactful solutions
• Ability to communicate effectively both internally and externally at all levels
• Have a growth mindset and a desire to learn continuously
• Achieve teamwork between mutual respect, collective responsibility, and shared commitment to project success.

Position Responsibilities:

• Committing to be a true voice of the people and building impactful experiences in their daily lives
• Establishing a meaningful end-to-end customer journey and the core seamless flow that guides customers to their desired outcome to reflect our product values
• Conceptualize, visualize and develop ideas for products and take them from germinal to shippable
• Wireframing, conceptualizing, rapid prototyping, user-testing, interaction design, and visual design
• Collaboration! Work on products and features in close collaboration with other Designers and Engineers
• Crafting experiences that accomplish appropriately set goals, successfully
• Building ideas that turn complex and confusing into simple and understandable
• Travel International and Domestic and work overtime when needed 

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Preferred in related field or or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• 10+ years of UX Design with Project Management/Leadership, User Experience/Interaction
• Advanced understanding of design-centered processes and methodologies for identifying and solving problems
• Ability to conduct and lead User Research to identify users and generate synthetic insights
• Strong understanding of design thinking, design principles, and experience design methodologies and their applications
• Design hypothesis development, prototyping & testing, sketching & visualizing bold ideas and user scenarios
• User-centric and innovative strategy for design and discovery
• Pitching and communicating the UX/UI concept to stakeholders
• Documentation creation: Scenarios, Wireframes, Visual Design, low & high-fidelity mockups, and prototypes
• Time management skills, attention to detail, and ability to think and act strategically and proactively
• Be clear, concise, have transparent communication style, willing to take action, and open to starting a project, idea, concept from scratch