Senior UX Designer

Company Description Cricut® makes smart cutting machines that work with an easy-to-use app, an ever-growing collection of materials, and crafting essentials to help you design and personalize almost anything — custom cards, unique apparel, everyday items, and so much more.

We believe everyone is born creative. We’re a diverse tapestry of thinkers, dreamers, givers, DIYers, handi-workers, artisans, and forever and always architects of things.

At Cricut, we place the power of handmade into the hands of all. We give you beautiful, easy-to-master tools so you can make something unique, remarkable, perfect. We surround you with ideas, community, inspiration, and encouragement to take your creativity further than you ever imagined. And as a community, we celebrate the exhilarating act of making every single day.

So, make that handcrafted card that feels like a hug. Design a shirt for fun, for family, or for a full-blown business. Craft with a passion or for a purpose. Make something big and bold, itsy-bitsy, amazingly ambitious, or just plain silly. Whatever you make, just make your heart out. Because here’s the remarkable truth: When we all make together, we make all things possible.

Let’s make.

Job Description The UX team at Cricut is responsible for user research, interaction design and visual design of software applications across desktop and mobile platforms. We design intuitive, easy-to-use software that inspires our customers, and helps them design and make unique, personalized projects.

The team is uniquely positioned – with direct connections to the executive team and CEO - and we collaborate across the organization to ensure hardware, content, materials, and software all work together to deliver awesome experiences. Our UX team members come from varied backgrounds and experience; all of us were drawn to the mission of empowering every person to be creative.

If you are interested in helping people realize their creativity and enjoy working on consumer-facing software, Cricut may have the dream job for you!

We are looking for top-notch, seasoned UX designers who are passionate, curious, and enjoy deep problem solving.

As a senior UX designer within the UX team at Cricut, you’ll create thoughtful and compelling user experiences for our desktop and mobile software products. You’ll bring a user-centered approach to your work, incorporating user input throughout the design process. Your work will happen in a highly collaborative environment, where you will partner with visual designers, product managers, software developers, industrial designers and colleagues from the Marketing and Creative teams.

Responsibilities

• Design clear flows and behaviors for native applications on both desktop and mobile devices.
• Ensure systems thinking is brought to bear to create cohesive and delightful experiences that span hardware, software and content.
• Reinforce a learning mindset: Participate in user research and A/B testing, advocate for our users at every step of the way, and leverage findings and data artfully to continuously improve designs.
• Bring a keen understanding of our users’ motivations, goals and needs to help define new features, functions and products.
• Influence, challenge, extend and evolve our UX design language to craft elegant and consistent design experiences.
• Foster successful collaboration with software product managers, software developers, and other colleagues including hardware product managers, materials product managers, content creators, hardware engineers and business stakeholders as needed, to drive solutions through to completion.
• Help evolve our design processes and deliverables to best meet the needs of a growing organization, as well as increase efficiency within the UX group.
• Capture ideas and solutions in varying levels of fidelity, as the situation warrants – from whiteboard sketches to flow charts to interactive prototypes.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, meet deadlines and bring clear priorities to bear through deep empathy with our users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), interaction design, graphic design, industrial design, information science, computer science or a related field. Graduate degree is a plus.
• 5+ years of work experience designing web and mobile applications and applying user-centered techniques. Thoughtful and well-presented portfolio…