Senior UX Designer

ICON is re-imagining the approach to homebuilding and construction to make affordable, dignified housing available to everyone throughout the world. We’re crafting a new generation of end-to-end digital solutions for ICON partners, customers, prospects, and the general public. Given the uncharted nature of what we do, we’re looking for someone who is able to pivot quickly. 

ICON is seeking a flexible, multi-faceted, motivated UX designer to join our fast growing BuildOS team of developers, designers and technologists who are working together to transform the construction industry. As a UX Designer, you’ll play a critical role across many challenging products and projects. ICON is an early-stage company, with a highly collaborative environment. Our flexible work schedule and open office culture set us apart; to make that work we’re looking for a responsible, efficient, and seasoned designer. 

This role reports to the Director of BuildOS and is based in our Austin, TX lab.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design rich user-interface solutions across a range of platforms and devices.
• Ensure interactive and visual designs achieve the highest level of usability, desirability and customer satisfaction.
• Work with Product and Engineering to grow strategic concepts through user research, design exploration, and ideation.
• Develop and maintain our interactive prototypes and design systems for the BuildOS suite of products.
• Contribute to complex projects with the ability to work well with ambiguity or when requirements are in ongoing development.
• Rapidly iterate,  prototype and test new design ideas. Apply the learnings to future iterations.
• Analyze tasks, patterns, navigation and user flows that align with best practices for web and mobile.
• Participate and conceptualize at a high level about product strategy and vision - not just visual ideas but what we should build and why.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• A compelling online portfolio demonstrating full design process execution, an understanding of UI design patterns and systems, and excellent design skills. 
• 5+ years professional product design experience. 
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Design, Fine Art, HCI, or equivalent experience.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Solid foundation in best practices and principles of UI.
• Experience designing interactive products for desktop and mobile.
• Experience creating, expanding and maintaining design systems for a suite of products.
• Proficient using design and prototyping tools: Figma, Invision, Illustrator.
• Ability to iterate through various stages of ideation: Discovery, Low Fidelity Designs (Wireframes), High Fidelity Deliverables.
• Ability to speak expressively about design and development with any audience.
• Experience designing, maintaining, and utilizing design systems.
• Demonstrable track record designing enterprise web and mobile applications and/or Rich Internet Application (RIA) design.