Senior UX/UI Designer

In 2012, Tuft & Needle (tn.com) disrupted the mattress industry by offering a customer-focused, digitally-native alternative to traditional mattress chains. Since then, more and more similar brands have followed in our wake presenting new challenges and a different type of customer confusion. With people at the heart of everything we do, we know it's now time for us to define our next chapter. Rest should be a universal right and with that as our North Star, we are setting out to radically reshape how the world thinks about sleep and the impact it can have in our lives. But our success in making great products and exceptional experiences depends on our ability to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We welcome applicants from underrepresented backgrounds and all walks of life because we know a diverse environment is essential to our success in making better sleep accessible to all.

Want to use your unique worldview to help shape the future of Tuft & Needle? Join us! We're just getting started.

Our Benefits:

• 100% covered Healthcare premiums
• Unlimited PTO policy
• 100% remote
• 401K match
• Employee Discounts
• Competitive Salary!

We are looking for an experienced Sr. UX/UI Designer to craft engaging and beautiful user experiences from concept to execution. You'll take a lead role on the team and drive impact by championing our customers and creating an inspirational, seamless shopping experience that drives brand perception, conversion, and customer satisfaction.

Essential Functions

• Lead and advocate for user-centered design every step of the way and lead the design process from concept to execution.
• Organize complex research and product information into elegant and coherent user flows, interaction designs, interactive prototypes, visual design mocks and specifications for dev to build.
• Propose and validate hypotheses and optimize our site experience through qualitative and quantitative studies and A/B testing
• Plan and execute user research studies and partner with UX researchers to understand our customer and validate product concepts
• Mentor and work closely with other designers, and engage with multiple project partners, including product managers, engineers, UX researchers, marketing managers and other designers to ensure that the user experience is simple, straightforward, and elegant.
• Analyze and synthesize complex design challenges into 'simple' practical design solutions that are grounded in user research and data.
• Continue to build on and advance ourexisting design system and maintain graphic standards and branding throughout the product's interface.
• Coordinate and lead ideation sessions with cross-functional teams to successfully collaborate on a project and synthesis ideas into an executional strategy.
• Foster a healthy design practice by giving and receiving feedback with maturity and perspective.
• Actively promote the value of design and design thinking through your interactions with others.

Required Qualifications

• 5-7 years related experience in UX design.
• E-commerce experience required. Home experience preferred.
• Experience developing design systems at scale a plus.
• Strong UI animation skills a plus.
• A bias toward testing and a curiosity for what you don't know
• Ability to clearly articulate design decisions & problems with excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
• Mastery of an iterative design process: incorporating feedback, launching quickly and testing hypotheses
• Strong user advocacy, focused on building the right experience for our customers.
• Meticulous sense of detail with ability to see the bigger picture.
• Ability to coordinate, facilitate, and synthesis multidisciplinary ideation sessions. Ability to live wireframe a plus.
• An entrepreneurial spirit, and willingness to take on new challenges and risks.
• Comfortable in a high-growth, fast-paced, self-starter environment.
• Speed and mastery working in common design and prototyping tools including: Figma, Sketch, Illustrator, Photoshop, and InvisionApp
• A strong portfolio showcasing examples of problem solving and applying user-centered design principles: concept sketches, user stories, interaction flows, prototypes, design specifications for development, and UI mockupsfor desktop and mobile. Examples ofboth methodology and production assets are highly encouraged.

YOU'LL SLEEP WELL WHEN YOU WORK WITH US

Our peopleYou'll work with some of the most talented, supportive, and savvy individuals out there. We're very proud to work with each other. We're shaking up the mattress industry and delivering an experience for clients they would never expect. And we're proud of that too!

Our productEach team member receives a great bundle of products for themselves. You will too if you join the team! Your friends and family will also have access to a great product discount.

Our benefitsWe offer comprehensive health benefits for you, eligible partners and dependents. We have paid maternity & paternity leave, 401k with a match, a generous vacation plan, and so much more.

Tuft & Needle is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, medical condition, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status or civil partnership/union status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth, genetic information, military and veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state or local law. Your experience is important to us. If you have any questions with your application, please contact our Candidate Experience Team attalent@tuftandneedle.com