• 7+ years of design experience
• Have an online portfolio or samples of work on resume, demonstrating experience creating great end-to-end, user-centered design solutions and patterns, across desktop and mobile devices
• Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity
• Experience designing in an agile development environment
• Adept at designing and prototyping in Figma and other modern design tooling

Desirable

• As a Senior UX Designer at Goodreads, you’ll work in a highly collaborative environment with product management, engineering, data science, editorial, brand marketing, operations, and design to understand and deliver experiences that delight our community of readers
• You’ll design experiences that help our members find books they'll love and get more out of them, and enables authors, publishers and advertisers to connect with our audience of engaged readers
• You'll Design ways to enhance our customer’s ability to discover books, track their reading life, and develop their reading identity in a way that delights them, wherever they are
• Relentlessly simplify and distill complex processes into intuitive and elegant solutions
• Proactively plan ahead, look around corners, and effectively partner with design, product, and engineering counterparts to prioritize work, resolve issues, and remove roadblocks
• Partner with product management, engineering, and design to define roadmaps and prioritize requirements
• Advocate for design by sharing your work and presenting cross-functionally, while being able to precisely articulate design rationale
• Use data and customer insights to confidently defend design solutions with senior leaders
• Lead cross-team conceptual development; work across multiple organizations to identify overlaps and efficiencies in design and product thinking
• Lead brainstorming and critique sessions that foster big thinking while raising the bar on the details
• Bring deep expertise in UX design (frameworks, interaction models, prototypes, research), helping team members weigh the impact and tradeoffs of decisions, and seeking input where needed to drive alignment
• Use systems-level design thinking to drive accessible and scalable design solutions
• Create flows, wireframes, design mockups, rapid prototypes to effectively conceptualize, prove out, and deliver on exceptional product experiences
• Drive user research projects to develop the understanding of the customer and validate design choices before and after development
• Give and solicit feedback from other designers to continually raise our bar for quality
• Hire, coach, and support a multi-disciplinary design team; act as a role model, mentor, and motivator in creating a diverse and inclusive working environment
• In this role, you will help the team define a vision for growing our business and continually identify new opportunities to deliver value to all of our customers - readers, authors, and publisher/advertiser partners
• You will be responsible for customer experiences from our reading challenge, book shelving and tracking, reviews and ratings, to integrations with world-class Amazon products, Kindle, Audible, and more
• You’ll design across all touch points including web, iOS and Android apps, and emails
• You’ll be joining the Design Team at Goodreads
• Product Design at Goodreads brings together the practices of information architecture, interaction design, visual design, and related disciplines into a single, user-centric design role
• Our designers translate user insights and business needs into product experiences that delight, generate visual concepts that exceed expectations, and work with developers to deliver those concepts with a high level of quality