FLEX Senior Manager Digital UX Merchandising

With every journey travel has the power to shape us and our world. Begin your journey as Senior Designer Digital UX Merchandising at Marriott International repeatedly voted one of Fortunes 100 Best Companies to Work For. Join our highenergy and talented User Experience team creating bestinclass digital experiences for one of the most recognized hospitality companies in the world.

This role is responsible for managing and executing design tasks in support of special offer and marketing campaign banners and email templates across the Marriott digital ecosystem as well as supporting ongoing optimization efforts of the same. The Senior Designer will partner closely with the Director Digital User Experience fellow UX designers copywriters product management team members and technology colleagues to ensure that banners and email templates are consistent aligned to standards highquality performant and effective.

This position requires an ability to produce highquality designs within the established workflow to consistently meet committed critical campaign timelines to provide guidance to internal and external designers to ensure alignment with brand and other standards and to contribute fresh and innovative concepts in support of continual improvement.

A strong portfolio is critical. Yours should showcase general skill in UX/UI design while highlighting any experience with highvolume production design as well as any digital merchandising or marketingoriented work including email templates.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Experience

• 5 years of relevant experience in digital product design
• 4year undergraduate degree with bachelors degree in relevant discipline or equivalent work experience
• Experience in usercentric design
• Strong understanding of visual design principles
• Proficient in general usability and transactional design best practices
• Experience designing transactional and marketing email templates
• Experience with major largescale global digital apps websites or other digital products
• Proven experience delivering high quality digital design work from concepts through final deliverables
• Familiarity with interpreting and applying branding and brand concepts

Youre exactly who were looking for if you:

• Are skilled at highvolume highstakes design production work
• Are able to communicate clearly professionally and effectively with business stakeholders
• Combine deep expertise in UX best practices with a strong understanding of business objectives to deliver thoughtful and balanced UX solutions
• Champion conversion techniques while balancing an elevated user experience
• Proactively manage tasks and prioritize workload to consistently meet deadlines in a fastpaced environment
• Maintain a wellorganized workflow including design assets documentation and project timelines to facilitate effective collaboration
• Promote UX best practices drawn from a variety of disciplines (within and beyond hospitality)
• Understand how to work effectively within a comprehensive design system
• Are skilled at selecting appropriate images for a given context
• Demonstrate selfconfidence energy and enthusiasm
• Showcase strong presentation and communication skills with ability to defend design decisions
• Ability to continuously iterate on designs based on feedback and usability testing to enhance user experience

Nice to Have:

• Experience working in support of largescale global digital entities or other digital products within the hospitality or travel industry
• Superior communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience with Adobe Workfront or similar tools
• Experience with Agile / SAFE development methodologies

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

Demonstrating and Applying Discipline Knowledge

• Produces designs motion specs prototypes and/or presentations as needed to communicate experience design
• References Marriott design systems for appropriate patterns components and styles
• Ensure a quality experience on live digital products by participating in the user acceptance testing process
• Uses software including: Figma Fig Jam Adobe Creative Suite; Microsoft Excel Word and PowerPoint
• Keeps skills up to date on industry trends and applies new knowledge by identifying strategic opportunities for competitive advantages
• Be a thought partner providing recommendations based on research and data for experience enhancements
• Collaborates with a variety of user experience disciplines within the team (Information Architecture Design System/Standards User Research Copywriting) to advance your work

Managing Work Projects and Policies

• Provides accurate estimates as to needed time to complete work to feed project plans (and therefore personal deadlines)
• Consistently meets deadlines once agreed upon
• Reports impediments to completing work and meeting deadlines
• Proactively communicates project status updates to manager
• Successfully manages multiple assignments at once
• Accepts critique and critiques work of others in a helpful and professional manner
• Communicates in a timely and appropriate manner with teammates

Additional Responsibilities

• Works independently with minimal supervision but knows when issues should be escalated to manager
• Develops relationships with members of other teams and leverages those relationships to answer questions
• Presents work with clarity and confidence; explains complex matters so that others can understand them
• Performs other reasonable duties as assigned by manage

The pay range for this position is $47.35 to $71.49 per hour.

Washington Applicants Only: Employees will accrue 0.0334 PTO balance for every hour worked and eligible to receive minimum of 9 holidays annually.

FLEX opportunities offer coverage for medical dental vision 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 and childcare discounts. Benefits are subject to terms and conditions which may include rules regarding eligibility enrollment waiting period contribution benefit limits election changes benefit exclusions and others.

Marriott HQ is committed to a hybrid work environment that enables associates to Be connected. Headquartersbased positions are considered hybrid for candidates within a commuting distance to Bethesda MD; candidates outside of commuting distance to Bethesda MD will be considered for Remote positions.

The application deadline for this position is 14 days after the date of this posting March 18 2025.

Marriott International is an equal opportunity believe in hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive peoplefirst are committed to nondiscrimination onanyprotectedbasis such as disability and veteran status or any other basis covered under applicable law.