Location: Portland, OR
Discipline: UX / Product Design
Experience: 5+ years
Compensation: TBD
Come play with us in Portland! MotoSport (specialists in Dirt Bikes, ATVs, UTVs, and more) are looking for some awesome UX Designers to add to the team. You can read on or clickhere to apply.
The User Experience team is a valued member of the Product Development team at Backcountry.com & MotoSport, and plays a vital role in ensuring the products we build for our customers match their behaviors, attitudes, and emotions. We collaborate closely with Product Managers, Developers and Subject Matter Experts in other departments to build innovative, user-friendly products that our customers love. User Experience Designers have outstanding conceptual, research, interaction, and visual design skills, as well as a strong understanding of information architecture and user centered design principles. You will be responsible for strategically thinking through all stages of the design process and executing with great attention to detail. Being a team player is a must, and collaboration will be a primary focus within your design process.
About The Job
Advocating for the user. Aligning your thinking and design principles with the behaviors, attitudes, and emotions of our customers and speaking knowledgeably to them at all stages of product development.
Preparing for and leading user research efforts.
Cross-functional collaboration to define effective solutions based on research findings & site analytics.
Creation of concepts, wireframes, and high quality designs / prototypes through testing, experimentation and development. Iterating designs based on testing results.
Close collaboration with developers to bring your designs to life.
About You
5+ years of UX experience.
Academic background in visual/human interaction, computer science, graphic design, or related field.
Deep understanding of all stages of the design process.
Clean visual design sensibilities. Ability to work within and progress an established design system.
Proven record of design usability for web based experiences with a deep understanding of mobile-first, accessible and responsive design. E-commerce experience a plus.
A solid grasp of user-centered design, planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, and heuristic analysis.
Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions.
Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with an engineering team. Basic knowledge of CSS & HTML.
Proficiency working in programs such as Sketch, InVision, Optimizely, UsabilityHub, Adobe Analytics, or Adobe Creative Suite.
About MotosportMotoSport.com is more than a powersports company. We are a gathering of power sports devotees who ride and wrench like there’s no tomorrow… just like our customers. Because we‘re living the moto life, we make sure that we have the right parts and gear for you – whoever you are. But we wouldn’t be that different from the other guys if we just had a ton of stuff, would we? So we’ll do you one better: here at MotoSport.com we have a wealth of expert knowledge that comes from experience. That means our customers get the right parts and gear every time, and we go above and beyond to get it there in time. At the end of it all, we strive to make people (who aren’t that different from us) happy and satisfied… after all, we know what it’s like to be passionate about powersports, so who better to bring that enthusiasm to life than MotoSport?
