User Experience Design Staff

Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, operating over 250 data centers across the globe. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals. 

 

Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams.  We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success. 

User Experience Design Staff

DUTIES:

• Research, design, and propose user research plans across a particular functional domain of responsibility.

• Responsible for the creation and delivery of visual and interaction design across a particular functional domain, site, or application.

• Employ skills across multiple disciplines including visual design, interaction design, user research, prototyping, and content strategy and manage other resources on these efforts.

• Determines user research methodologies to optimize data collection.

• Interact with stakeholders to determine requirements and set expectations.

• Create user scenarios and stories to coordinate with other teams.

• Lead user research sessions and analyze research results to inform design and development.

• Design organization and categorization of schemas within an information system.

• Develop navigation structures to support proper wayfinding and ensure navigational consistency across multiple complementary sites and/or applications.

• Structure and classify sites and applications to help people find and manage information.

• Design an information space to facilitate task completion and intuitive access to content.

• Develop a range of UX deliverables, including task flows, information architecture (IA) diagrams, design studies, wireframes, and high-fidelity interface mockups.

• Provide line-level creative direction for a particular functional domain of responsibility.

• Lead, present, defend and articulate design work in design reviews with colleagues and stakeholders.

• Execute interaction design as a part of a multi-disciplinary team.

• Research interaction design trends and lead concept creation and development of design systems.

• Oversee development of style guides, and ensure ongoing completeness and relevance.

• Socialize design specifications and style guides with stakeholders to ensure understanding and adoption.

• Apply critical thinking to a variety of complex user problems, taking into account user needs, business objectives and technical constraints.

• Determine need for prototyping efforts, based on functional complexity and requirements.

• Create and propose prototyping standards and toolsets.

• Act as an internal UX Subject Matter Expert (SME) for projects, to ensure design consistency and sharing of best practices.

• May telecommute.

REQUIREMENTS:

Employer will accept a Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Engineering, Psychology, Human-Factors, Cognitive Science, or related field and 12 months of work experience in the job offered or in a UX research-related occupation. Position requires:

• Human-centered design process: qualitative research, synthesis, ideation, prototyping, or implementation;

• Conveying concepts through wireframes, flows, storyboards, or mockups;

• Miro, Figma, InVision, Sketch, Usertesting.com, UserZoom, or SurveyMonkey;

• In-depth interviews, Concept Testing, Card-sorting, Surveys, Usability Testing, or Participatory Design;

• Coordinating design deliverables; and

• Developing research plan or roadmap for a product area.

RATE OF PAY:  $112,000.00 - $202,000.00 / year

Our pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training.

The targeted pay range listed reflects the bas