UX Designer

UX @ Guidewire Love solving sticky problems?  Excited about crafting innovative solutions for global software? Interested in working on products that touch everyone’s lives? We’re a close-knit and multidisciplinary UX team working to make cloud software that is at the forefront of the insurance industry.   We’re committed to building an inclusive workspace that embraces people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, skills, and talents.   Our team tackles a variety of topics within Property and Casualty insurance, from Policy to Claims to big data and analytics to crafting our P&C Insurance Design system, Jutro. We consider designing a team sport where, together with our colleagues, we strategically solve for business realities and execute on innovative and scalable solutions for both enterprise and customer-facing applications.   

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Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a team of designers and engineers to make the building blocks for applications built on our web platform
• Evolve and scale the design system thru discovery, definition and design of new components, patterns and insurance-relevant workflows
• Document design system artefacts for use by both internal and external partners 
• Work closely with developers to answer design, interaction, and state questions to ensure the design system is implemented according to our vision
• Encourage your UX peers to participate in improving the design system collectively
• Communicate insights and concepts to key shareholders in exciting and relevant ways that evoke emotions and memorable experiences
• Design, develop and work with customers to set up their environments using Guidewire Cloud Platform and standard methodologies

Experience:

• Has 5 + years of meaningful experience, user experience design and design research for B2B2C products.
• A passion for collaboration and communication
• Can demonstrate experience with information architecture, design methods and artefacts, such as interaction flows, taxonomies, flow diagrams, mental models, content inventories, wireframes, etc.
• Becomes comfortable with frequent collaboration between design and product/development teams.
• Experience working with design systems
• Proficiency with Figma, Sketch, (whatever other tool they'll need to use)
• A good understanding of front end development and code