at Anywhere Real Estate in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
As a Senior Designer, you will work closely with Product, Engineering, Analytics to make digital products usable and accessible. You are the type of person consider the user experience first and support design decisions with standard methodologies and data. You’re motivated, reliable and love to collaborate. By working closely with your team, you ensure solutions are both feasible and align with business’ goals and objectives – all while keeping up with trends and technologies.
Your responsibilities as a product designer:
Conduct both generative and evaluative research to understand which problems to tackle and testing your proposed solutions
Synthesize research findings, feedback, analytics, collaborator input and business requirements to deliver optimized designs in an iterative, agile environment
Define and create information architectures, wireframes, user flows, UI and interactive prototypes
Create designs for multiple platforms, while keeping accessibility top-of-mind
Use and contribute to a design system serving products supporting multiple brands, ensuring consistency in interaction models and UI patterns
Actively participate in demonstrating work and research findings, partnering with product collaborators, engineering and leadership
Help improve the way the team works from iteration to iteration
Team Lead Responsibilities:
As a Team Lead you will provide guidance, instruction, direction and leadership to a group of individual contributors for the purpose of achieving goals that contribute to the goals of the organization. Additionally, you:
Empower and inspire your team by creating an environment that promotes positive communication, knowledge sharing and flexibility
Create, document and be responsible for your annual Performance Plan and assist team members with theirs
Develop team members’ performances through coaching and evaluating fairly
Identify skills gaps and develop plans to address those gaps
Promote and enhance your team’s capabilities
Your Skills and Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI) or equivalent professional experience designing digital products and working with cross-functional teams
2+ years people management or people leadership experience
7+ years of related work experience in User Centered Design, or similar
Deep portfolio that wows with clear insights, problem-solving, that can tell a narrative about your work and its results
Proficient in Figma and have mastered the use of design systems that scale
Set Yourself Apart With:
Experience in designing for real estate agents, sales associates in other industries or similar
Experience designing for data and API driven applications using just-in-time methods
Experience in a mature Agile, fast-paced development environment
Validated ability to develop subject matter expertise and are curious by nature
Current understanding of web application development, including browser standard methodologies, event handling and reusable components
Understanding of modern front-end frameworks such as React, Angular and Vue
Experience with Google Material Design
Proficiency in Jira, Hotjar, Google Analytics, Data Studio and Tag Manager
Emerging experiences – design for emerging technologies, i.e. AI, machine learning, AR/VR
Knowledge of HTML and CSS, interaction design and animation
Have designed across responsive web applications as well as native iOS and Android
Have designed for accessibility and to achieve WCAG standards
Anywhere Real Estate Inc. (http://www.anywhere.re/) ?(NYSE: HOUS) is on a mission to empower everyone’s next move. Home to some of the most recognized brands in real estate?Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate (https://www.bhgre.com/) ,?Century 21® (https://www.century21.com/) ,?Coldwell Banker® (https://www.coldwellbanker.com/) ,?Coldwell Banker Commercial® (https://www.cbcworldwide.com/) ,?Corcoran® (https://www.corcoran.com/) ,?ERA® (https://www.era.com/) , and?Sotheby’s International Realty® (https://www.sothebysrealty.com/eng)
The Anywhere portfolio includes franchise and brokerage operations as well as national title, settlement, and relocation companies and nationally scaled mortgage origination and underwriting joint ventures.? Supporting approximately 1.5 million home transactions in 2021, Anywhere is focused on simplifying, digitizing and integrating the real estate transaction for all consumers, no matter where they may be in their home buying and selling journey.? With innovative products and technology, Anywhere fuels the productivity of its approximately 196,200 independent sales agents in the US and approximately 136,400 independent sales agents in 118 other countries and territories.
At Anywhere Real Estate, diversity fuels success – for our company, for our employees, and for our industry. We strive to be a top destination for diverse talent, committed to creating a culture of belonging that empowers everyone’s next move. We pursue talent – strategic thinkers who are eager to always find a better way, relentlessly focus on talent, obsess about growth, and achieve exceptional results. We value diversity – respecting backgrounds, cultures, perspectives, and beliefs. We develop our diverse talent base – through increasing representation in executive key leadership roles with actions including mentorship programs and partnerships with real estate associations that promote diversity and inclusion. Read more about our company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in our annual Corporate Social Responsibility Report (https://assets.website-files.com/633f08923c4c519693723aa5/63f7690462db639dcd8b18de\_Anywhere%20CSR%20Report%202022.pdf) .
You’ll find our commitment to diversity reflected in our achievements:
+ Recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies since 2011.
+ Anywhere has also been designated a Great Place to Work since 2019.
+ Recognized by Fortune as one of America’s Most Innovative Companies.
+ Honored by Forbes as one of the World’s Best Employers for Diversity and Top Female Friendly Companies.
With a diverse employee population, we know we will succeed together and move real estate to what’s next. We hope you’ll join us.
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