Principal UX Designer

Description

Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure team is building a rapidly evolving and innovative cloud platform to support Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) needs of our enterprise customer audiences, who operate at high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant environment.

Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with best-in-class compute, storage, networking, database, security, as well as an ever-expanding set of foundational cloud-based services.

We are looking for a talented Principal User Experience (UX) Designer to join the Platform team and design innovative experiences in a fast-paced, distributed environment.

Your work will have direct impact on both the user experience and the industry as we work to redefine this space.

About You

You obsessively advocate on the users' behalf and have a clear understanding of their goals and how they align or conflict with business goals and technical constraints.

You effectively collaborate with other team members and make positive contributions to interactions with cross-functional disciplines including product management, engineering, documentation, QA, and support to successfully go from early stage product discovery to deployment.

You create and deliver high-quality, detail-oriented, user interface designs, information architecture diagrams, interaction models, and UI prototypes.

You explore a variety of design directions before arriving at a solution, and routinely conduct design reviews with other designers, and cross-functional team members.

You are able to articulate your design decisions with sound logic, and provide supporting

arguments that include data, user research or industry standards.

You know when to dig deep, when to pushback, and also when to make trade-offs to get things done.

Responsibilities

Collaborate. Innovate. Simplify. Iterate.

Work closely with a cross-functional teams including product managers, engineers, content

strategists, quality assurance, and support to create elegant and easy to use designs that meet the requirements and raise the user experience bar.

Generate user interface requirements from business goals, project requirements, technical and time constraints.

Create process flows, conceptual diagrams, wireframes, and visual designs to effectively

communicate high-level design strategies and detailed interactions.

Give and solicit feedback from other designers and team members.

Present your work to and garner buy-in from cross-functional team members, stakeholders and leadership.

Provide detailed design documentation and deliverables that support and enable

implementation efforts across engineering, content strategy, and quality assurance, in

delivering high-quality software at a high velocity.

Create and own new design patterns and processes.

Contribute to design strategy and thought leadership discussions.

Minimum Qualifications

BA / BS degree in Design, HCI, CS or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

7+ Years of industry experience in UX design, Information architecture or Visual Design.

Proficiency with industry-standard design tooling such as : Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Sketch, Axure and others.

Ability to support your work verbally and visually with well-thought out design rationale, data, or user research.

A strong portfolio or samples of work demonstrating creative and innovative design solutions.

Ability to quickly grasp and distill highly complex user design issues into clean, understandable solutions.

Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills including the ability to communicate complex, interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences.

Ability to work in a collaborative team environment directly with developers for implementation of designs.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with responsive and / or mobile design.

Experience conducting user research and usability studies.

Knowledge of Cloud Computing.

Experience with HTML / CSS.