Senior UX Designer

Job Title: Senior UX Designer

Location: Westminster, CO

Division: Trimble User Experience

Trimble loves UI and UX and our team is growing!

About the Role

The Central User Experience team at Trimble is looking for a talented and detail oriented Lead UI/UX Designer to lead the design teams working on the Modus Design System component and pattern library.

In this role you will be leading user experience design & research, and design for Modus, Trimble’s Design System.  We are looking for a user experience designer specializing in design systems with exceptional visual design chops, an eye for detail, and understanding of accessibility to provide leadership, mentorship, and support for designers on the Modus Delivery Team and various other product teams across Trimble. You are a user-focused systems thinker with excellent communication skills and a passion for design. You will interpret the use cases and business requirements of a number of applications and make design decisions, working with stakeholders and development teams across the globe.  You will make sure the patterns are tested with users to ensure quality and excellent user experience in our products. We offer a supportive and fun team, access to a growing UX/UI infrastructure, where you will solve complex design and user experience problems.

What You Will Do

• Lead a team of designers to support the design and development of the design system. 

• Lead and coordinate Tiger Teams to ensure high quality of submissions and consistency with Modus foundations.

• Work closely with the Design Systems Product Manager, the delivery team, and various teams of contributors to manage existing and add new components and patterns to Modus.

• Manage a complex Figma library of patterns in sync with the style guide and code components. Coordinate and ensure proper merging of Figma branches. Ensure consistency between the style guide, Figma libraries, and code components. 

• Define and establish processes for smooth consistent collaboration with designers and engineers.

• Interpret business/ team requirements, consider various use cases, and recommend solutions. 

• Manage and review icon requests and submissions. 

• Proactively identify and resolve issues early while maintaining relationships. 

• Define design and guidelines for the Trimble pattern library. Write UI spec documentation.

• Make design decisions and recommendations in collaboration with other team members. Participate in the Modus Approval Committee. 

• Conduct audits and reviews of product UIs and patterns. 

• Mentor designers on how to use the design system. 

• Gather and synthesize qualitative and quantitative data and make recommendations based on the findings. Design and send out surveys to measure design system effectiveness.

• Ensure our components and patterns meet accessibility guidelines. Provide recommendations 

• Detail design, organize and maintain UI Kits in Figma for consumption by designers and engineers.

• Test the components with users. Create prototypes to test concepts. Synthesize and share data. 

• Edit and publish guidelines and articles.

• Make design decisions and answer design system related questions. 

• Review and approve Modus marketing materials.

• Provide clarification and specification to developers and QA.

• Participate in team meetings and learn about other projects.

What Skills & Experience You Should Have

• 8+ years of experience working in UX, 3+ years working in an enterprise environment, a degree in graphic or visual design, UX design, interaction design or a graduate of a UX bootcamp with a visual design background.

• Strong leadership skills and experience leading a design team, spearheading projects, conducting reviews, and providing feedback. Excellent communication and people skills. 

• Experience managing or working with a design system.

• Experience with UX in an Agile environment.

• Experience with user research, empathy for the user, and passion for great user experience.

• Understanding of accessibility and WCAG. 

• Collaborative behaviors and the ability to lead through influence

• Willingness to contribute your own creativity and originality; posses a dynamic sense of curiosity

• Fluency and advanced skills with Figma Enterprise.

• Experience with front end development 

About Your Location

Preferred location is our corporate office in Westminster, CO.  This is a hybrid role - with a 3 day in office and 2 day work from home requirement.

Trimble’s Inclusiveness Commitment

We believe in celebrating our differences. That is why our diversity is our strength. To us, that means actively participating in opportunities to be inclusive. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion have guided our current success while also moving our desire to improve. We actively seek to add members to our community who represent our customers and the places we live and work.

We have programs in place to make sure our people are seen, heard, and welcomed and most importantly that they know they belong, no matter who they are or where they are coming from.

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Pay Equity

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Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

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Hiring Range:

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Bonus Eligible?

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Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

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