What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. UI Designer (Contract) position at SanMar?
At SanMar, the work you do makes a difference.
What's the Short Version?
The Sr UI Designer (contract) is responsible for developing user interfaces that are clear, functional, and aligned with user and business requirements. This role involves creating high-fidelity designs using Figma, maintaining comprehensive design systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams, including product and user research. This role ensures decisions are informed by user feedback, data, and iterative testing to support the delivery of seamless digital experiences.
What Will You Be Doing?
Hybrid: SanMar's Eastpointe office is located in Issaquah, WA in the Seattle metropolitan area. Employees are required to work in our offices Tuesday through Thursday each week and additional days may be added based on business needs. Our standard working hours are 8:00-5:00 PST. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle or feel. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Work environment is moderately quiet. Ability to work on computer for multiple hours with frequent interruptions. Quarterly travel may be required.
Why Work at SanMar?
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. They bring their talent, passion and dedication to work with them every day. Their hard work inspires us and gives us purpose. We love working here together.
Whether you work in our headquarters, from your home or in one of our distribution centers across North America, we believe that investing in you is just the right thing to do. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to support your health and well-being, life balance, career growth and (eventually) retirement.
SanMar works with brands you already know, like Nike, The North Face and Brooks Brothers, as well as providing industry-leading private label apparel and accessories. Our people come to work excited to do their part, providing clothing that helps people feel that they’re a part of something special.
Here’s your chance to be a part of this story. If you’re ready to work in a place where your participation matters and your growth is a priority, we’re ready for you.
SanMar is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, whoever you love or follow in faith, whatever your disability or superpower status, whichever ethnicity or gender you identify with, you are welcome at SanMar.
SanMar participates in E-Verify.
What's the Short Version?
The Sr UI Designer (contract) is responsible for developing user interfaces that are clear, functional, and aligned with user and business requirements. This role involves creating high-fidelity designs using Figma, maintaining comprehensive design systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams, including product and user research. This role ensures decisions are informed by user feedback, data, and iterative testing to support the delivery of seamless digital experiences.
What Will You Be Doing?
- Act as Subject Matter Expert and provide guidance and oversight on high-fidelity UI design and prototyping within the UX team to support project deadlines and objectives
- Lead user-centered design creation in Figma through visual layouts and engaging interfaces while ensuring brand consistency of design assets.
- Partner with Product Managers to ensure designs are ready for development, including annotations that clarify design thinking and UI behaviors
- Collaborate with UX Researcher to prototype designs, run usability tests, and collect feedback from users.
- Enhance user experience through data-driven design decisions through collaboration with the analytics team
- Maintain current knowledge of trends and competitor activities to incorporate innovative solutions in designs.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Comply with all policies and standards.
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- 4-6 years of UI or product design experience in a B2B or eCommerce company.
- High-level skills in UI design and collaboration tools such as Figma, Sketch, Mural, Miro, Adobe XD, Balsamiq Mockups, or InVision App.
- Familiarity with or exposure to solid examples of common eCommerce industry design practices.
- Familiarity with and comfort in working within agile requirements gathering and IT development release process.
- Experience with design systems, both contributing new patterns and assets and utilizing existing ones, especially design systems constrained by legacy enterprise software products.
- Examples of relevant work showing problem solving and design approach.
- Ability to articulate, pitch, and defend your design decisions and rationale to stakeholders unfamiliar with UI design best practices and methodology.
- Bring a strong sense of empathy and a user-centric approach to design.
- Use customer research findings, analytics, personas, and journey maps to inform and influence.
- Operate in a complex environment and have some experience translating complex design patterns into simple solutions.
Hybrid: SanMar's Eastpointe office is located in Issaquah, WA in the Seattle metropolitan area. Employees are required to work in our offices Tuesday through Thursday each week and additional days may be added based on business needs. Our standard working hours are 8:00-5:00 PST. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle or feel. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Work environment is moderately quiet. Ability to work on computer for multiple hours with frequent interruptions. Quarterly travel may be required.
Why Work at SanMar?
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. They bring their talent, passion and dedication to work with them every day. Their hard work inspires us and gives us purpose. We love working here together.
Whether you work in our headquarters, from your home or in one of our distribution centers across North America, we believe that investing in you is just the right thing to do. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to support your health and well-being, life balance, career growth and (eventually) retirement.
SanMar works with brands you already know, like Nike, The North Face and Brooks Brothers, as well as providing industry-leading private label apparel and accessories. Our people come to work excited to do their part, providing clothing that helps people feel that they’re a part of something special.
Here’s your chance to be a part of this story. If you’re ready to work in a place where your participation matters and your growth is a priority, we’re ready for you.
SanMar is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, whoever you love or follow in faith, whatever your disability or superpower status, whichever ethnicity or gender you identify with, you are welcome at SanMar.
SanMar participates in E-Verify.