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UX Designer

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose: At The Home Depot, we get UX; it is baked into our DNA. Now we are expanding our team to drive new initiatives. As a member of the UX team, you will work with other strategists, designers, and researchers to help craft end-to-end experiences and identify customer needs.

You are a designer with a desire to solve interesting and meaty customer problems. Whether it's using design thinking techniques to drive ideation and alignment or bringing a paper prototype to your user for a quick experiment, you can identify and execute the right steps towards solving a problem. You recognize the value of well-crafted design along with the value of imagination and play in building great products within a business environment.

With passion for good interaction and visual design, you can craft end-to-end experiences to enact cutting-edge retail strategies; balancing user needs with business strategy and ultimately creating delight for your customers. You love to work hand in hand with your users to build a more effective and efficient experience for them. You might not consider yourself a researcher, but you have solid awareness of research best practices and know that research is the foundation towards good design. You can also use evaluative approaches to iteratively improve your products.

You appreciate feedback and support from fellow researchers, designers, engineers, analysts, or product managers in our cross functional environment. You enjoy collaborative effort, taking feedback and input to your UX activities as a means of improving the end result. You are as comfortable influencing business leadership as you are your product leadership and individual contributors. You are the customer and user advocate. You drive innovation by championing actionable user insights, deeply understanding our customers, enhancing product usability, and providing our team avenues to delight our customers. You communicate effectively and share a point of view that guides quality decisions.

Key

Responsibilities

25% - Active Contributor in Planning and Strategy Activities

• Executes on the experience vision & purpose: Combines user research outputs with OKRs of partners to clearly deliver on the vision of their experiences & drive alignment with partners in solutions on assigned product. Proactively identifies additional value across an experience domain. Leads stakeholder meetings to drive product alignment. Partners with Product, Development, other UX resources. Displays situational adaptability, is able to step in and drive change in products to better align with user needs or organizational goals. Has courage and organizational savvy to drive this change.

5% - Coaching and Mentoring

• Actively refers outside talent. Coaches junior resources in UX activities. Mentors apprentices in product or workstream.

70% - Delivery and Execution

Direct Manager/Direct Reports: This Position typically reports to the User Experience Manager

This Position has 0 Direct Reports

Travel

Requirements

Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Physical Requirements

Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions, there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions

Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications

Must be 18 years of age or older

Preferred Qualifications

5-7 years of UX experience in an Enterprise or retail environment or a degree in related field

5-7 years of experience working with agile software development teams

Desire to thrive in a fast-moving environment

Education

The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred

Education

The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Minimum Years of Work

Experience

4

Preferred Years of Work

Experience

5

Experience

None

Preferred Leadership

Experience

None

Certifications

None

Competencies:Action Oriented

Collaborates

Communicates Effectively

Customer Focus

Drives Results

Nature and Scope:

For Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada and New York City residents: The pay range for this position is between $90K to $180K. Starting salary may vary based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, the position being offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. The Home Depot offers additional competitive financial and non-financial benefits, which may include a performance-based bonus program or a profit sharing program depending on position.

For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, New York City, Ithaca (NY), Westchester County (NY), and Washington residents:

The pay range for this position is between $90,000.$0 - $180,000.00