Senior UX Designer at Equinix in Sunnyvale, California

Job Description:

Senior UX Designer

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 210 data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

At Equinix, we help the world’s digital leaders scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences, and transform people’s lives. Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams.  

We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills, and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

Responsibilities 

• Interacts with stakeholders to determine requirements and set expectations of UX deliverables based on scope, level of efforts, timing




• Applies critical thinking to various complex user problems, considering user needs, business objectives, and technical constraints




• Develops a range of UX deliverables, including user journey maps, task flows, information architecture (IA) diagrams, wireframes, interactive prototypes, high-fidelity interface mockups, documentation using industry-standard tools




• Leverages Design Thinking methodologies to build shared understanding and buy-in on a user "jobs to be done" and the downstream UX investment to support those "jobs"




• Can identify and communicate user mental models for associated feature sets supporting the core focus of products and services within her/his assigned area




• Determines need for prototyping efforts based on functional complexity and requirement specifics




• Collaborate with UX Research Team to identify research needs for projects and learning objectives for research investments




• Partner cross-functionally (PM, UX Researchers, Engineers, UX Content Writers, and other designers) to apply user research insights in designs as needed 




• Creates user scenarios and stories to coordinate with cross-functional Designs organization and categorization of schemas within an information system




• Ensures navigational consistency across multiple complementary sites and/or applications




• Designs an information space and use customer-centric language to facilitate task completion and intuitive access to content




• Executes interaction design as a part of a multi-disciplinary team




• Creates and proposes prototyping standards and toolsets




• Socializes prototypes via design reviews within the UX Organization to ensure alignment across the ecosystem and adherence with our design system patterns and components 




• Socializes design deliverables and specifications with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ensure understanding and adoption




• Can act as an internal UX SME for other internal or third-party projects to ensure design consistency and sharing of best practices




• Strong collaborator who can promote communication and teamwork to play a proactive role to explore, ideate, validate, and socialize solutions

Qualifications 

• Online portfolio of your work (If not on your resume and/or there is a password, upload as cover letter)




• Bachelor's degree; Master's degree in HCI, Interaction Design or related field of study is strongly preferred




• 7+ years of product design work for software products and services




• 5+ years of experience using Figma, Sketch, and InVision or similar




• Previous experience designing UX patterns and documenting guidelines as part of Design System desired




• Understanding of JS React, SQL, HTML, and CSS desired

Equinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.