About DAT

DAT is a next-generation SaaS technology company that has been at the leading edge of innovation in transportation supply chain logistics for 43 years. We continue to transform the industry year over year, by deploying a suite of software solutions to millions of customers every day - customers who depend on DAT for the most relevant data and most accurate insights to help them make smarter business decisions and run their companies more profitably. We operate the largest marketplace of its kind in North America, with 226 million freight posts in 2020, and a database of $126 billion of annual global shipment market transaction data. We have co-headquarters in Portland, OR and Denver, CO, and additional offices in MO, TX, and Bangalore, India. For additional information, see www.DAT.com/company.

The Opportunity

DAT is looking for a Senior User Experience Designer to join our amazing Product and UX team in Denver, Colorado.

Candidate profile

We’re looking for a versatile, and seasoned, UX designer to join our FreightMatching & Platform team to build new analytics products for our customers to better understand and make decisions in the freight market. You thrive in team settings, collaborate with stakeholders, and love to learn. You lead by empathy, strive for the voice of the customer, and iterate to achieve product vision. You have a stellar digital portfolio that you are proud of and are excited to share with us. 

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Product Managers to understand the freight market and our customer pain points in order to determine how our customers workflows, and data factors into valuable solutions.
• Solicit feedback early and often from stakeholders, customers, and engineers, fearlessly and quickly iterating on unpolished hand sketches, wireframes, and prototypes to explore customer needs and the solution space.
• Work closely with product managers, data scientists, and engineers, communicating clearly and iterating on designs based on level of effort and end-user value to rapidly ship products to market.
• Understand current products, workflows and systems and create compelling and easy-to-use wireframes that solve customer problems.
• Leverage product analytics (mixpanel, hotjar, etc.) to quantify usage patterns and identify areas where users are struggling to achieve their objectives.
• Shape DAT’s approach to excellent user experience by facilitating design thinking with workshops, developing customer journeys, and defining user flows and presenting findings to senior stakeholders.
• Conduct discovery and testing research with customers to identify green space and to iterate on existing products and features.
• Build out DAT’s approach to a design system, publishing design components to the repository and developing the style guide.

The Skills and Experience You’ll Bring

• Comfort working with Product, UX and Engineers and experience with data visualization, wireframing along with making decisions based on product metrics.
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of heuristics, user research, user workflow, journey mapping, information architecture design, and ability to evaluate design concepts.
• A self-starter who thrives on responsibility and accountability, is hypothesis-driven, and understands when details matter and when they’re distractions.
• Fluency with mobile technologies and interactions.
• Proficiency in design and rapid prototyping tools like, Figma, Sketch, Zeplin, Principle and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Proficient in Agile methodologies and working and working within a Scrum framework.
• Be able to present a portfolio of web and mobile app design, examples of sketching and lo-to-hi-fidelity prototypes that explain both the process and outcome.
• 5+ years of experience designing web and mobile applications.
• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university, preferably in fields such as Interaction Design/ HCI, Product Design, Graphic Design, Human Factors

DAT embraces the value of a diverse workforce, and believes it is a core strength of our company that we encourage those values in every DAT employee, at every level of our organization, regardless of tenure or rank. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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