Job Description
UX Designer
REMOTE
United States
Contract
Description
About Twine
At Twine, we’re more than just a marketplace – we’re a thriving ecosystem of top-tier freelancers from around the world. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and Silicon Valley startups alike, Twine is the go-to platform for mission-critical projects. With over half a million registered freelancers and a growing roster of 35,000+ companies, we’ve become the comprehensive solution for all things freelancing.
Our Mission
At Twine, we recognize that companies require a flexible approach to hiring expert freelancers for their most critical projects. Traditional freelance platforms often fall short when it comes to scalability and diversity. That’s where we shine. Twine operates as a thriving global freelance network, with diverse experts across various fields, including marketing, engineering, and AI. Our core mission is to empower creators, whether they’re businesses or individual freelancers, to thrive in their creative endeavors.
About The Job
We are seeking a UX Designer for the world’s largest online retailer and a prominent cloud service provider. They will join a group of designers focusing on core video player controls across all supported devices. This individual should be able to manage multiple projects across program areas and build effective relationships with partner teams ranging from UX Design and research within our own studio to Product, Engineering, and Business teams across the org.
Key Responsibilities:
- Understand and balance the needs of the millions of end customers against your internal customers – the developers, PMs, and more that make use of the system.
- Influence the vision, strategy, and roadmap of the system.
- Create user-centered design solutions, utilizing and contributing to an established design system.
- Present design work to the user experience team, product team, and project stakeholders for review and feedback.
- Collaborate with teams to help them design experiences: provide feedback on designs though various stages of completeness, suggest appropriate solutions from the design system, investigate requests for new solutions.
- Create documentation and design specs for delivery to engineering partners.
- Contribute to a greater playback vision.
Additional Key Responsibilities:
- Creating end-to-end design solutions for the PVUX Playback Experience group, based on collaboration with our business and tech partners, and based on customer research and performance metrics.
- Analyze user interface problems to create on-brand design solutions that meet measurable business goals and requirements and work closely with the business team to develop use cases and high-level CX requirements.
- Work closely with our Design Systems group and A11y partners to create accessible designs.
- Create user flows, wireframes, visual designs and prototypes as needed to effectively conceptualize and communicate detailed interaction behaviors and to effectively communicate design solutions to PV leadership.
- Determine areas for research and testing and work closely with our research partners to execute against these needs.
Requirements
- 5+ years of design experience
- An available online portfolio
- Experience designing interfaces for web and mobile
- Proficiency in Figma and delivering high fidelity design specs and/or prototypes
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with a design system or creating and contributing a design system
- Experience designing interfaces for living room devices
- Familiarity with good A11y design principles and WCAG guidelines
- Experience interpreting designs across a broad range of device surfaces and interaction patterns
- Experience designing video and/or audio player controls and in-playback features
- Experience with voice activated controls and interactions
- Bachelor’s degree in design and/or human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent experience