Overview
Join our innovative Creative Lab to design products that run the world! We are a group of user-centered designers working closely with the Chief Creative Officer and Product Development. Our vision is to advance Esri’s user experience so that we can extend the reach and utilization of Esri’s location-based technology.
Our ideal candidate is driven to find the next big challenge for their design career while working in a highly collaborative atmosphere to deliver Esri’s flagship desktop software, ArcGIS Pro.
Responsibilities
- Create interaction designs, workflow diagrams, wireframes, and interactive prototypes for new features, enhancements, and extensions of ArcGIS Pro
- Transform complex problems into innovative, valuable, usable software experiences
- Create UX deliverables including user personas, site maps, concept maps, process flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and UI designs that effectively communicate the product architecture, layout, and functionality to team members
- Apply established patterns to prototypes and mockups to ensure consistency across products and influence the creation of new patterns
- Conduct formal and informal user research and testing of in-progress work and assist in implementation of user-based testing to provide optimization of existing application
- Effectively collaborate with product managers, researchers, project team members, and other stakeholders to understand product vision and customer needs while validating designs through testing and customer feedback
- Help pioneer and evangelize good product design at Esri, raising the design sense of those around you through design leadership and service
- Have a generalist approach to UX design with an emphasis in one or more of the following: accessibility, usability research, or prototyping
- Contribute to ensure UX/UI consistency across our product stack
- Stay up to date with new technologies and trends in the desktop design space
Portfolio Submission
Please include a link to your online portfolio or samples of recent work. Samples must demonstrate design skills and a mix of low fidelity and high fidelity UX deliverables.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience designing UX for digital products
- Demonstrated experience in accessibility compliance, usability research, or prototyping
- Team-oriented approach to design with demonstrated experience thriving in a collaborative and iterative work environment
- Understanding of GIS workflows
- Experience working closely with developers to build software together
- Experience creating UX design artifacts such as workflow diagrams, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity interface design
- Expert level knowledge and abilities in Adobe Suite, Sketch, Invision, and related design tools
- Bachelor’s degree in human factors, interaction design, psychology, or a related field
Recommended Qualifications
- Hands-on experience designing within the Microsoft design guidelines
- XAML/.NET coding skills or conceptual understanding of them
- Knowledge and proficiency in ArcGIS, geography, and/or other Esri-related topics
- Experience designing enterprise software
- Graduate degrees are a plus
About Esri
Our passion for improving quality of life through geography is at the heart of everything we do. Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) technology inspires and enables governments, universities, and businesses worldwide to save money, lives, and our environment through a deeper understanding of the changing world around them.
Esri is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email askcareers@esri.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this e-mail address.
Esri’s competitive total rewards strategy includes industry-leading health and welfare benefits: medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance for employees (and their families), 401(k) and profit-sharing programs, minimum accrual of 80 hours of vacation leave, twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year, and opportunities for personal and professional growth. Base salary is one component of our total rewards strategy. Compensation decisions and the base range for this role take into account many factors including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.
A reasonable estimate of the base pay range is $93,600.00 – $160,160.00.
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