UX Designer
DESCRIPTION
Join the TrainingPeaks team and help athletes and coaches achieve their best!
Who We Are
TrainingPeaks provides the complete web, mobile and desktop solution for enabling smart and effective endurance training. Our products include TrainingPeaks.com Athlete and Coach Edition, WKO+ desktop software for cutting-edge scientific analysis and planning, and the TrainingPeaks mobile apps for iOS and Android. TrainingPeaks solutions are used by Tour de France teams, IRONMAN® World Champions, Olympians, athletes and coaches around the world to track, analyze and plan their training.
Who You Are
As UX Designer, you will conduct qualitative and quantitative research to help us better understand our audience and their needs. Using that data, you will apply creative and innovative user-centered solutions that will provide the backbone for an intuitive and compelling user experience. You will know when to follow best practice and when to veer off and pave your own way. You’re an independent thinker who first asks “why” and loves getting into the weeds of a problem.
You will work in close collaboration with other UX and UI Designers and report to the Director of UX.
Core Responsibilities:
- Work directly with Product Managers to define user problems
- Work directly with other members of the UX team to formulate our data collection approach and strategy
- Work directly with UI designers to bring to life intuitive and innovative designs
- Conduct UX research, interviews and usability tests to inform design decisions and define user problems
- Explore several diverse approaches and validate the right solution with prototypes, validation testing and quantitative/qualitative customer research
- Create low fidelity wireframes and prototypes that communicate clear interactions and experiences
- Establish a framework for synthesizing and distributing your research findings
- Effectively communicate conceptual ideas, prototypes and the specifics of user-centered design process to product, engineering, and key stakeholders
- Perform other duties as assigned
REQUIREMENTS
Required Qualifications
- Solid understanding of user-centered design principles and data-driven design strategies for mobile and web applications
- Knowledge of best practices and platform specific design/UI patterns for mobile and web app platforms
- Fluency in user research fundamentals such as creating user groups, usability testing, interviews, online surveys, user personas, and journey mapping
- Fluency in user experience design fundamentals such as wireframes, prototypes, mockups and design best practices
- Effective collaboration across the team disciplines, including Product Manager, UX and UI Designers, Director of UX, Front End Developers and Engineers
- A solid understanding of usability and heuristics
- Knowledge of best practices for data collection
- Ability to prioritize your project work with your team, while being able to work collaboratively and independently
- Experience working in an agile development process
- Minimum of 5 years experience conducting UX research
- Examples that reflect your ability to conduct, organize and synthesize your research
Desired Qualifications
- Solid understanding of user-centered design principles and data-driven design strategies for mobile and web applications
- Proficiency in leveraging the Adobe Creative Suite (XD), Miro (RealtimeBoard), Sketch, and Invision for wireframing, design comps, and prototypes
- Training in visual design with an appreciation of design principles (layout, typography, color theory, composition)
- Experience in designing SaaS products
- The ability and desire to contribute to the growth of the UX Team by providing guidance and mentorship
BENEFITS
Benefits and Perks Include
- 100% company paid medical plan for employees with buy-up options as well as dental and vision insurance for employees (dependent coverage available)
- 401(k) 5% match
- $1,200/year fitness reimbursement to purchase any items related to healthy living
- 3 weeks of PTO for all new hires; increase in PTO at various years of service
- 4 week paid sabbatical for all employees after 7 years of employment
- Stocked kitchen with snacks and drinks
- Dog friendly office
- Music Studio for all to practice, jam, and record
- On-site workout area access: treadmill, bike trainers, rowers, and full weight lifting gym with CrossFit equipment, with changing rooms and showers and towel service
- Corporate discounts on gym memberships and top-brand gear
- Beautiful North East Boulder, CO location (with a few remote days possible)
- Flexible work schedule in a culture of trust
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TrainingPeaks is a member of the Peaksware family of companies including Alfred Publishing, MakeMusic, TrainingPeaks, and TrainHeroic. Peaksware was recognized as #15 on Built in Colorado's "Best Places to Work" list and five times by Outside Magazine's "Best Places to Work"! Through our unique approach to deliberate practice, each company within Peaksware develops software solutions to help users on their individual journeys of skill development and improvement.