Named as one of Fortunes’ 100 Fastest Growing Companies for 2019, EPAM is committed to providing our global team of 30,100+ EPAMers with inspiring careers from day one. EPAMers lead with passion and honesty and think creatively. Our people are the source of our success and we value collaboration, try to always understand our customers’ business, and strive for the highest standards of excellence. No matter where you are located, you’ll join a dedicated, diverse community that will help you discover your fullest potential.
 

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You are sharp, driven and inquisitive. You are not afraid to take risks and grow by learning from mistakes. You let your voice be heard and love a good challenge. If this sounds like you, this could be the perfect opportunity to join EPAM as a Director UX Design. Scroll down to learn more about the position’s responsibilities and requirements.

EPAM is looking for a talented, nimble UX Design leader to join our Experience Design team.

In return, you can count on us to know our people are the source of our success and to value your contributions. We believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create beautiful ideas, services, and experiences within both current and emerging digital technologies. With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we prioritize understanding our clients’ businesses and striving for the highest standards of excellence.

This role provides the opportunity to work in a wide array of industries to solve complex challenges in both established and emerging technologies. You’ll be exercising and expanding your strategic consulting, critical thinking and problem-solving skills and serving an international stable of clients.

You’ll play a client-facing role in leading teams, conducting research, and developing the strategy and UX design of smart, user-centered solutions. You will need to manage and mentor designers, champion effective processes, demonstrate a strong sense of craft, build trusted relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, and innovate collaboratively with globally distributed project teams.

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WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Lead teams to deliver end-to-end UX design projects, ensuring outcomes meet both business and user goals
• Mentor and grow your team members
• Champion excellent user-centered design standards
• Help facilitate workshops with clients to support them through a participatory design process
• Lead user research
• Build trusted relationships with internal/external account stakeholders
• Ensure projects and tasks are delivered on time and within budget
• Present design work confidently to stakeholders and build trusting relationships
• Stay up to date with latest design and technology trends
• Provide design solutions across various touchpoints (e.g. websites, mobile, apps)
• Create design strategies, wireframes, prototypes, design systems
• Demonstrate expert knowledge of all aspects of the Experience Design approach, with the ability to apply them flexibly across a variety of project types
• Strong experience with user flows, IA, site maps and wireframes, and with creating interactive prototypes at various levels of fidelity
• Ideate and co-design with peers and clients in a positive and collaborative manner

WHAT YOU HAVE

• A hunger to learn, humility to listen and smarts to deliver
• Minimum of 8-10 years’ experience in a user experience, information architecture or interaction design role
• 5+ years experience managing teams
• Strong client-facing consultation, communication and presentation skills
• Work experience in a fast pace enviorment
• Ability to collaborate well with others and a desire to learn and share knowledge with the wider team
• Experience working in an agile environment within a multidisciplinary team
• Expert knowledge with the Adobe Creative Suite
• Experience with software such as Axure, Invision, Sketch and Illustrator
• Relentless attention to detail
• Experience working on large digital engagements
• Willingness to travel

WHAT WE OFFER

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (Subsidized)
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (Company Provided)
• Life and AD&D Insurance (Company Provided)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
• Matched 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Paid Time Off
• Legal Plan and Identity Theft Protection
• Accident Insurance
• Employee Discounts
• Pet Insurance
• EPAM welcomes all applicants and will consider qualified candidates with criminal history such as arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring