UX Designer

Job description

Description

About us

Bringing True Hospitality to the world.

We want to welcome you to a world of bringing True Hospitality to everyone. When you join us at IHG®, you become part of our global family. A welcoming culture of warmth, honesty and a passion for providing True Hospitality.

We pride ourselves on letting your personality and passions shine, recognizing the individual contribution you make and supporting your ambition to learn and create your own career path. In making a difference to our guests and owners, colleagues and communities, every day is a chance to create great and unique experiences, in your own way.

With over 370,000 colleagues in nearly 100 countries sharing our values, there’s countless opportunities at your fingertips.

We’re growing; grow with us.

Your day to day

Summary

This UX Designer position within the GHOS User Experience team will help drive the design and development of global hospitality industry applications. The designer must be passionate about creating and implementing effective user-centered design. The position requires a high awareness of usability factors that promote principles such as learnability, speed, simplicity, efficiency and consistency. The UX Designer will help concept, plan and design web and mobile-based application interfaces for Hotel Owners, Hotel staff and Corporate staff.

Responsibilities and requirements

·  Develop Wireframes and prototypes
·  Brilliant presentation skills to communicate UX recommendations and lead sketching/brainstorming sessions with internal and vendor teams
·  Lead UX discussions and working sessions with multiple functional areas throughout the company
·  Ability to clearly articulate reasoning for UX design decisions, citing best practices, articles, and examples of existing functionalities
·  Think beyond the desktop to employ Mobile First and Responsive Design methodologies to deliver experiences for smartphone, tablet and desktop devices
·  Ability to translate business and technical requirements into captivating solutions
·  Work with other team members to develop standard UI design enhancements, follow and update Design System and pattern library
·  Stay abreast of new techniques, trends and competitive set products
·  Throughout the lifecycle of product development and management stages provide review and feedback to Product Management, Technology, UAT and QA teams as needed
·  Experience with Axure or similar prototyping applications Familiarity with HTML/CSS/jQuery
What we need from you

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.

Experience

·  6-8 years of progressive work-related experience, hotel/travel industry a plus.
·  Typically 2-5 years’ experience with interaction design

Technical Skills and Knowledge

·  Fluent with Axure RP
·  Experience with other design and prototyping tools such as Sketch, Adobe XD, InVision, or Principle
·  Experience in agile and lean development methods
·  Expertise in the principles of Interaction Design and user-centered design methodologies
·  Excellent verbal and written communication skills
·  Ability to present and defend design concepts
·  Experience working with or within a Product Management team
·  Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize work efficiently
·  Demonstrated ability to use Data Visualization design techniques
·  Brilliant presentation skills to communicate UX recommendations
·  Experience conducting usability studies

 

What we offer

We’ll reward all your hard work with a great salary and benefits – including great room discount and superb training.

Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care, that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve - click here to find out more about us.

IHG is an equal opportunity employer: Minorities / Females / Disabled / Veterans