Job Description

Job Details

Job Location SEATTLE, WA 98109

Lead complex UX initiatives that translate customer insights, business goals, and technical constraints into elegant digital experiences.

RUN Studios, and its client partner, a large online retailer headquartered in Seattle, are seeking a User Experience Designer to join for an approximate 7-month project!

This position requires 5 days onsite in downtown Seattle.

We are seeking a Senior UX Designer to lead customer experience initiatives across a high-traffic e-commerce platform. This role partners closely with product managers, designers, researchers, and engineering teams to deliver intuitive, user-centered experiences across web and mobile. The ideal candidate brings a strong understanding of customer behavior, retail UX best practices, and design systems, and is comfortable leading complex projects, navigating ambiguity, and driving design decisions from concept through implementation.

As a UX Designer, You Will

• Create elegant and intuitive user experiences by balancing user insights, business requirements, and technical constraints.
• Lead planning and strategic phases of large initiatives, including migration projects.
• Rapidly and iteratively produce user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups with detailed visual design specifications for web and mobile.
• Independently deliver UX solutions for problems of large scope and complexity while navigating ambiguity and multiple stakeholder needs.
• Advocate for user-centered design by partnering with researchers to test solutions and by conducting lightweight, scrappy user testing when needed.
• Present design work clearly and confidently to UX, product, engineering teams, and senior stakeholders.

As an Applicant, You Bring

• 6+ years of UX or UI design experience with a strong focus on end-to-end, user-centered design across desktop and mobile.
• Advanced proficiency in Figma and extensive experience with rapid prototyping.
• Demonstrated retail or e-commerce UX experience.
• Strong customer research skills, including forming design hypotheses, reasoning through edge cases, and validating ideas through usability testing or research tools.
• Experience with Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Axure preferred.
• Familiarity with platforms such as Shopify and experience with conversion or abandonment metrics is a plus.
• Portfolio demonstrating thoughtful UX solutions and strong visual design skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in design, human-computer interaction, or equivalent professional experience.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and collaboration skills with the ability to drive design reviews and close on requirements independently.

Additional Position Details

• Supervisory Responsibilities
  • None.
• Physical Demands
  • Physical demands of the job, including bending, sitting, lifting and driving.
  • Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Work Environment
  • Typical for an office setting or home environment.
  • 5 days onsite downtown Seattle.
• Travel
  • None.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.

At RUN Studios we recognize our ultimate success depends on our talented and dedicated workforce. We understand, value, and are grateful for the invaluable contributions made by each employee. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive program of evolving competitive benefits specifically designed to support the needs of our employees and their dependents.

Compensation

Pay Range: $55 -$61.00 (Hourly)

The successful candidate’s pay will be based on various factors such as individual qualifications and work location.

Benefits:

Benefits and perks may vary depending on location and nature of the work, but eligible employees have access to medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D benefits, health savings and flexible spending accounts, other telehealth and wellness benefits, a minimum of seven paid holidays per year, accrual of at least 6.5 days (Temporary Employment) to at least 15 days (Regular Employment) of paid time off per year, a 401k plan with company match, discretionary bonuses dependent on company, team or individual performance, and referral bonuses for eligible hired referrals.

As an equal opportunity employer, RUN Studios is committed to pay equity and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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