Backblaze: Principal UX Designer (Contract) United States

UX Designer is needed in United States.

Backblaze is seeking a Principal UX Designer. This job was crawled from the web:

Location: San Mateo, CA
Contract: FTC until end of June 2023

What You’ll Do:

• Conduct research and discovery to assess and ideate on the global navigation and wayfinding in the complicated and competitive landscape of cloud storage and cloud backup
• Drive forward design solutions that are great for both SEO and humans, prospective and current customers
• Wireframe, design, and propose web experiences including unifying the pricing and signup experiences across multiple products and audiences
• Work with our Creative team to refine our design system for usability and application across the site
• Tell compelling stories about your designs, present your work with confidence, and connect design decisions to business strategies
• Work closely with visual design and website engineering from design hand-off to debut to make sure the design vision gets implemented per specifications
• Collaborate with stakeholders and project partners to strategize, plan, and execute a multi-faceted and fast-moving project with high company value
• Partner with CMS authors to lay out components and build pages

The Right Fit:

• 7+ years of proven web design experience
• Deep knowledge of responsive UI design and UX methodologies
• Experience conducting user research on information architecture and design concepts
• Proven experience crafting new concepts and innovative design approaches for the web
• Advanced knowledge of Figma (or similar UI design software) required
• Available portfolio or privately-shared case studies showcasing user experience work
• Understanding of web technologies and the development process
• Experience designing within a Content Management System and understanding of web production workflows
• SaaS experience preferred

In what capacity are you hiring?
On behalf of another company

Where are you in the hiring process?
I’m ready to make a paid hire

Would you like to state a preference for hiring from underrepresented group(s)?
No preference

Where did you find Twine?
You contacted me

Is this an independent one off job, or part of a larger project?
Part of a larger ongoing project

For what period of time will the freelancer be needed?
Long term

What freelancer experience level is needed? (per hour)
Senior: $75-100