.Senior UX Designer

Senior UX Designer

Cambridge, MA (Hybrid); Houston, TX (Hybrid)

About this position:
Context Labs is looking for a Senior User Experience (UX) Designer to integrate art, technology, and engineering to identify, create, and support the client and partner interactions with the Context Labs’ products and brand. This is a senior role requiring a unique mixture of hands-on skills with a high degree of conceptual understanding. This demands a wide range of talent and experiences across disparate skill sets.  You are passionate and possess a depth of skills across four categories: Leadership, Creativity, Design, and Engineering. 

In this role you will:

• Design scalable and maintainable UI/UX layouts for Context Labs’ Decarbonization as a Service™ platform, built on our Immutably™ Data Fabric technology.
• Work closely with product managers, UI engineers, product marketers, and business developers to help gather product UI requirements, collect user feedback, prototype, and test new product features.
• Lead whiteboard/brainstorming sessions through facilitated discussion and visual notetaking.
• Create sketches, wireframes, storyboards, journey maps, and/or prototypes to get user feedback into product design early and often.
• Document and maintain style guides, etc. for the products and company brand.
• Apply classical art principles such as balance, proportion, emphasis, and variety.
• Leverage the elements of art: line, shape, form, value, space, texture, and color.
• Understand how design and art need to work together in a practical application of usability.
• Organize work based on project requirements and clearly articulate direction and expectations.
• Understand and leverage Agile principles both conceptually and applied (i.e., JIRA)
• Understand users and context of users’ interactions.
• Use research when appropriate to inform design decisions.
• Know and use graphic programs to produce visual assets.
• Work closely with Product Marketing to incorporate good branding and design principles into outbound materials.
• Work with leadership to guide the overall direction of UX considerations across the organization.
• Visualize complex data, including charts, tables, and busy navigation elements.
• Prioritize a strong focus on data visualization, leveraging your experience in the field.

Experience:

• 5 or more years of relevant experience in graphic design, interaction design, or User Experience design.
• Experience with all the tools and disciplines of UX Design: interactive prototypes, visual design mockups, journey maps and workflows, user-testing methods, persona development using Figma (and related tools).
• Experience with Product Metrics tools – e.g., MixPanel, Google Analytics, etc.
• Understand the technical capabilities and limitations of a modern, web-based application stack.
• Big picture orientation with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to think in terms of what the technology can do without limiting the options or prematurely optimizing the design.
• Ability to face problems/issues that require a deep understanding of the products with a strong analytical ability and outstanding perseverance to drive activities through to completion.
• Ability to communicate detailed information clearly and concisely (both verbally and in writing) to technical and non-technical audiences.
• High-level end-to-end understanding of modern application architectures.

Preferred Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Visual Design, or similar area of study.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in graphic design, interaction design, or User Experience design.

Why you’ll like it here:

• Context Labs is collaborative at its core. You’ll work within your team and across the organization allowing for continuous learning and discovery.
• We set goals that matter and provide value in all that we do, from building meaningful products to positively impacting carbon reduction and climate change.
• Context Labs’ mission is to transform complex data into continuously proven information. Powered by Immutably™, an innovative, trusted data fabric platform, our integrated solutions deliver context-driven insights that enable human networks to spot patterns, correlate trends - and reveal the ground truth hidden inside the world’s most complicated, persistent problems.

We understand that applying for a job can be intimidating. Applicants rarely meet every single job requirement, and we know there are many skills and backgrounds that will contribute to success in this role. If you’re interested in applying, please do so.

Context Labs embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe the more inclusive we are, the better our products will be. Context Labs will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please contact Human Resources at HR@contextlabs.com.

Who we are:

Context Labs solves big global problems by elevating trust in data. Our Immutably™ Platform solutions enable individuals, companies, and governments to produce data-driven insights that can be irrefutably trusted and verified. While the technology has broad application, our main focus is on climate initiatives that move the needle. We're a rapidly growing team of creative problem-solvers that leverage disruptive technology to crack the world's fundamental “too hard” challenges (such as decarbonization and water/food security). Do you want to have an impact working with smart, passionate people that push themselves, support each other and celebrate wins as a team? Join us.

We are a team that is hiring and growing! Learn more about Context Labs here:

www.contextlabs.com