FLEX Senior Designer, User Experience & Design

This is a temporary position.

With every journey travel has the power to shape us and our world. Continue your journey as the Senior Designer User Experience & Design at Marriott International repeatedly voted one of Fortunes 100 Best Companies to Work For. Join our high energy and talented User Experience & Design team creating best-in-class digital experiences for one of the most recognized hospitality companies in the world.

This role is responsible for designing commerce-focused web products ranging from near-term tactical to longer-term strategy with a keen focus on data-driven best-in-class product design. They will contribute to digital experiences that deliver on both revenue conversion and emotional engagement to support business outcomes. Specifically they will be part of the team designing Marriotts 9000 hotel websites the online experience of over 9000 hotels and resorts worldwide. Partnering closely with the Director of User Experience product management and technology colleagues to meet needs across our business leisure member and non-member customers.

This position requires the ability to produce design as an individual contributor and provide direction to internal and external designers.

A strong portfolio is critical. Your portfolio should showcase experience in UX and interaction design in commerce solutions particularly highlighting work within a multi-brand design system scalable solutions bespoke customizations within templated products simplicity and ease-of-use.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Experience

5 years of relevant experience in digital product design

4-year undergraduate degree with bachelors degree in relevant discipline or equivalent experience

Experience in multiple of the following user experience disciplines: interaction design and visual design

Experience working with a multi-brand design systems and using variables/tokenization

Strong grounding in the atomic design framework

Excellent storyteller with a strong focus on content within design

Experience with major large-scale global digital apps web sites or other digital products within the commerce space

Proven experience delivering concepts templates quick iterative design prototypes across platforms (desktop mobile web app etc.)

Youre exactly who were looking for if you:

Have a strong iterative and problem-solving approach to your work

Communicate through precise specs compelling visuals and well documented deliverables

Detail-oriented and precise

Comfortable working within a design system but not constrained by it: pushes for creativity within constraints

Promote UX best practices drawn from a variety of disciplines (within and beyond hospitality)

Always up to date on the latest trends and methodologies

Able to act quickly and independently

Ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects and work across multi-disciplinary teams

Nice to Have:

Expertise in large-scale global digital entities or other digital products within the hospitality or travel industry

Superior communication and interpersonal skills including discovery facilitation presentation and storytelling

Experience with Agile / SAFE development methodologies

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

Demonstrating and Applying Discipline Knowledge

Produces sketches wireframes flows designs templates content diagrams Figma prototypes and/or presentations as needed to communicate experience design

Provides subject matter expertise on key functional systems to help shepherd strategic initiatives from idea to feasible implementation

References Design System for appropriate patterns components and styles during user experience design work

Produces both innovative high-level design concepts / strategy visualizations as well as development-ready designs with specifications

Ensure a quality experience on live digital products by participating in the user acceptance testing process

Uses software including: Figma; AEM Storybook (or equivalent); Microsoft Excel Word and PowerPoint

Keeps skills up-to-date on industry trends and applies new knowledge to job identifying strategic opportunities for competitive advantages through those findings

Clearly present your work citing industry best practices qual and quant data to support your decisions

Be a thought partner providing recommendations based on research and data for experience enhancements across all digital touchpoints

Collaborates with a variety of user experience disciplines within the both the UX team product team and development teams(Information Architecture Design System/Standards User Research Copywriting Front-End Functional Authoring) 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)

Meets deadlines once agreed upon

Reports impediments to completing work and meeting deadlines

Provides regular 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

Manage other individual contributors on the team.

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; Performs other reasonable duties as assigned by manager

At Marriott International we are dedicated to being an equal opportunity employer welcoming all and providing access to opportunity. We actively foster an environment where the unique backgrounds of our associates are valued and greatest strength lies in the rich blend of culture talent and experiences of our are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis including disability veteran status or other basis protected by applicable law.