(Southlake, TX)

Principal Experience Designer : 00H18

Travelocity is looking for User Experience ninja who is about tackling human-centered, real-world design challenges. Do you have a passion for bringing great interaction design together with stunningvisual design? Do you have a high degree of literacy in front-end coding? Or better yet, do you take your designs all the way through front end development?

What makes a Travelocity User Experience Designer? You are a design strategist, planner, and creator. Travelocity User Experience Designers participate at all stages of a project including customer insights, product strategy, concepting, prototyping, detailed design, and front end development. You have a strong background in interaction design (including information architecture) and visual design skills (information design, typography, color, etc.). You must also be a systems thinker who considers how your feature, interaction, and page designs work and will be maintained across brands, channels (Web/mobile), countries, and languages. You are comfortable working in a highly collaborative, Agile environment, and are willing to wear multiple UX hats (IA, design, front end code).

Responsibilities:

• Create the end-to-end UX artifacts in support of product development. This includes: user personae, scenarios, feature lists, user stories, user flows, wireframes/information designs, visual designs, HTML/CSS, light javascript, and any other supporting artifacts to describe the user experience is intended to work.
• Think through features and designs fully, taking into account both ideal and non-ideal scenarios along with how designs will translate to other locales and brands.
• Ensure that feature plans and designers are achievable, scalable, and maintainable over the long term.
• Collaborate closely with the product management and development teams
• Effectively communicate the intended functionality, flow, design patterns/styles, etc. to product managers, developers, architects, and other stakeholders both verbally and through the appropriate level of documentation

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Strong visual and interaction design are paramount in this position. A design portfolio of completed works is a must.
• At least 5+ years of user interface design experience
• Ability to understand customer needs, motivations and behaviors and translate them into actionable deliverables
• Detail-oriented and highly developed organizational skills including the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines
• Must be a self-starter who will bring original ideas and fresh approaches to each project they work on.
• Expert literacy in front end development (particularly around responsive design, designing and coding across multiple channels and browser types) is a must.
• Experience writing HTML / CSS a must. A strong literacy in JavaScript, advanced CSS, and an ability to work at the JSP/ASP level is highly desired. A willingness to develop expert skills in JavaScript, advanced CSS, and working at the JSP level is a must.
• Highly proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Keynote, Visio, Axure, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and in a rapid development environment.

We are open to relocating candidates from outside of the DFW area. We are both a Mac and Windows powered.

TRAVELOCITY GLOBAL

SABRE HOLDINGS

Benefits first day, matching 401K, jeans every day, highly creative environment!! We have our own Starbucks onsite!