Principal User Experience Designer Oracle
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Responsible for creating, evaluating and modifying prototypes to support evolving hardware and software application development.

As a member of the User Experience team, you will develop and apply software design/usability processes in the investigation of technical problems. May develop user profiles, with emphasis on human error control, display issues, visual interaction, physical manipulation and task and objective analyses. Provide product usability, evaluation and support to product development teams, including the analysis and investigation of applications/systems including tactile methods, visual graphics, web, multimedia, voice response and conversational user interaction. May assist in developing design concept and implementation, providing input on user design considerations. May produce specifications describing user needs and internal structures for product in development.

Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. Typically seven years of software engineering or related experience needed.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Design is on the rise at Oracle. Our aim: to create compelling, effective, state-of-the-art consumer-grade enterprise experiences that connect, empower, and delight our users. Our UX will be the factor that distinguishes our software from the competition.

We're building a world-class team of Design Strategists, Innovators, UX and UI Designers, Researchers, Prototypers, and Technologists that will take Oracle Design to the next level. You will help create a design-led culture that will put users and their needs at the center of our product development process and transform the way our customers work on a global scale. We're fusing amazing Design and UX with cutting edge technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Conversational UI, Augmented Reality, and more to invent the 'future of work'.

Yes. We're absolutely serious.

And we can't do it without your help.

Job Description

We're looking for a Senior or Principle UX Designer to lead projects and teams for Oracle Cloud Finance and ERP Applications. This includes Expenses, Invoices, General Ledger, Planning & Project Management, and more. Responsibilities range from the design of features and enhancements as part of incremental product improvement, to completely reimagining our products as part of our 'Next Generation' product strategy and vision projects. This role will also be involved in cross-studio and cross-business initiatives including building and shaping our design and studio culture, creating our processes, selecting tools and techniques, feeding into the branded look-and-feel of our product UI, and generally making our design agenda a success.

Specifically you will:

* Work with Product Management and Engineering as partners to define the product vision, requirements, and success criteria
* Identify and get to know your users through interviews and observations. Uncover needs, perceptions, context, thinking, feeling and behaviors that will yield important insights and opportunities to delight.
* Create user needs and experience frameworks, measure and model user behavior, and find areas for improvement.
* Lead the thinking for how to design for AI, ML, and Automation leveraging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, chat, voice, AR, web, mobile, and others.
* Create information architecture, process flows, wireframes, and visual design mockups as needed to conceptualize and communicate intended user experiences.
* Present design work to the user experience design team, product team, executive leadership, and project stakeholders for review and feedback.
* Collaborate with design technologists to create sophisticated prototypes to bring your designs to life, share them with stakeholders, and test them with users.
* Work with platform engineering to create design components, patterns, and layouts.
* Test your solutions with users to get qualitative and quantitative feedback.
* Develop and deliver detailed user-interface specifications for the final product design.

Here's the kind of person we're looking for.

You're an experienced UX design professional and leader. 8-15 years of experience with a track record of designing, building, and shipping digital software products.

You have experience with Consumer and Enterprise application design. Ideally, you have experience with Finance, Fintech, and Planning and Management applications but this is not mandatory.

You have mastery of driving a user-centered product design process. This includes leading projects and teams as a creative lead across all phases of the product design process from the project definition, to user research, to strategy formulation, opportunity area identification, ideation, prototyping, testing, into final visual design, production, and delivery.

You thrive on working well with others. You make the people around you better. You love to collaborate with designers, user researchers, engineers, product managers, executives and inspire them to do their best.

You're a full stack user experience designer. You look at interaction design, visual design and aesthetics, typography, motion, 3D, human factors, and more as tools in the UX designer's toolkit. You may be better at some than others, but you know how to talk about each and combine them all into an experience that delights.

You get stuff done.

You're a fantastic storyteller. You know that our products tell our customers a story through the user experience. You won't rest until that story is a compelling one.

You love rules and you know when to break them. You think systemically because you know that creating a coherent experience requires it. But you know when the system needs to expand to accommodate a user's varied conceptual models. And you know when to do something unique to create an arresting and product-defining moment that makes users ooh and aah.

You don't already know everything and you love to learn. You're inspired by helping users solve their problems. You love finding out you're wrong. You consume large amounts of quantitative and qualitative data to constantly refine your assumptions..

And finally, you want to be part of creating dramatic and impactful change at a company that is committed to becoming a light unto others when it comes to user experience design.

Detailed Description and Job Requirements

* 8-15 years of experience as a design professional. Experience as a design leader or manager a plus.
* A track record of designing, building, and shipping Consumer or Enterprise digital software products. Consumer UX design experience or Finance, Fintech, and ERP experience a plus.
* Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in UX/UI Design, Digital Media Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or other design field.
* Professional portfolio to present and communicate your approach, process, work, and accomplishments

As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process, after a conditional offer has been extended.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.