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Senior UX Architect

Cox
$99,000.00 - $165,000.00 / yr
parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, sick time, flex time, 401(k)
United States, Pennsylvania, West Chester
Feb 07, 2025
Senior UX Architect The best UX professionals aren't just expert practitioners. They're coaches: people who can guide others and evangelize best practices across an organization. We're hiring a Senior UX Architect to join Cox Automotive's award-winning workplace. You'll support formative discovery and research activities to help end users reach their goals. Leaning on your ability to translate goals into intuitive design structure, you'll ensure a familiar user experience across products, and mentor other UX architects. If you have a curiosity for human behavior and are good at balancing big-picture thinking with detail-oriented work, apply today! What's In It for You? Here's a sneak peek at the benefits you could experience as a Cox employee: A competitive salary and top-notch bonus/incentive plans. Professional development and continuing education opportunities. The chance to work with fascinating, cutting-edge platforms. Exceptional work-life balance, flexible time-off policies and accommodating work schedules. Comprehensive healthcare, with multiple options for individuals and families. Generous 401(k) retirement plans with company match. Inclusive parental leave policies, plus comprehensive fertility coverage and adoption assistance. Check out all our benefits. What You'll Do You'll be the primary point-of-contact/facilitator for UX on assigned projects. Your day-to-day could include creating prototypes for usability testing, examining web analytics and championing user needs and product usability while balancing business and technical constraints. Here are some more of your responsibilities: Developing a deep understanding of target clients and their business needs. Collaborating with UX research, product management, UX content, business and engineering teams. Facilitating product design planning and tasks with the Product team. Leading the translation of business requirements into simple, highly usable and compelling interface layouts. Creating wireframes and interactive mock-ups (lo/high fidelity) and integrating personas/segmentations with related deliverables. Ensuring the familiarity of the overall user interface and that individual components can be extended and reused. Collaborating with engineering teams to determine data accessibility and understand technology constraints/advantages. Creating and supporting the information architecture of navigation, content, etc. Designing navigational schema based on user needs, content models and technical constraints. Articulating the rationale behind interface decisions and how to prioritize interface features. Assisting in the ongoing definition of Cox Automotive's evolving UX standards. Who You Are An analytical problem-solver, you have proven expertise in user-centered design methods, techniques and principles. Your portfolio proves your experience to produce UX documentation like storyboards, user scenarios/tasks, user flows, wireframes and prototypes. Here's what else you bring to the table: Minimum: A bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4 years of experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 2 years of experience; a Ph.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 8 years of experience in a related field. Experience with group facilitation. Experience designing for mobile devices, including native and responsive design. Experience working with teams on large-scale, long-term projects. Excellent oral, written and verbal communication skills, as well as interpersonal skills. Proficiency with design tools such as Figma. The ability to establish UX methodology, processes, estimates and deliverables for a project. The ability to work on multiple projects/business units simultaneously. The ability to make intuitive leaps to hypothesize product design solutions. The ability to convincingly articulate ideas and rationale across the company, including the executive suite. The ability to deal with ambiguity. The ability to stay up to date on the latest trends and research in product design, SEO and web/mobile technologies. The ability to work individually with minimal supervision/mentoring and as a team. Preferred: Experience with A/B experimentation. Grow your career with the best. Apply today! USD 99,000.00 - 165,000.00 per year Compensation: Compensation includes a base salary of $99,000.00 - $165,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program. Benefits: The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave. About Cox Automotive At Cox Automotive, people of every background are driven by their passion for mobility, innovation and community. We transform the way the world buys, sells, owns and uses cars, accelerating the industry with global powerhouse brands like Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, Manheim and more. What's more, we do it all with an emphasis on employee growth and happiness. Drive your future forward and join Cox Automotive today! About Cox Cox empowers employees to build a better future and has been doing so for over 120 years. With exciting investments and innovations across transportation, communications, cleantech and healthcare, our family of businesses - which includes Cox Automotive and Cox Communications - is forging a better future for us all. Ready to make your mark? Join us today! Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page . Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer - All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual's age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship. Statement to ALL Third-Party Agencies and Similar Organizations: Cox accepts resumes only from agencies with which we formally engage their services. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Cox employees, Cox hiring manager, or send to any Cox facility. Cox is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.