Principal UX Design Lead for Shop - Scottsdale

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At GoDaddy, Experience Design is a team of multidisciplinary experts who translate our brand mission into groundbreaking digital experiences for web, mobile and emerging technologies. Our Experience Design group are the creators of UX, visual, motion, research and prototyping tasks. As the Principal UX Design Lead, you're expected to drive the creative output from any of those specialties, but this role seeks someone with digital ecommerce experience with an exquisite eye for aesthetic of lifestyle brands visual design.

The Principal UX Design Lead oversees innovative and talented Experience Design teams in developing groundbreaking experiences evolving GoDaddy.com on all form factors. You will be responsible for leading UX design of major components of the shopping user experience that scale across multiple products, global markets, multiple form factors, and end-to-end scenarios for a variety of customers. You're a strong, creative problem-solver who has a knack for making the complex simple, are guided by customer data and business needs, and know how to work with others to turn ideas into reality.

Your eye for aesthetic is equal in merit to your analytical user center design methodologies like UX research, journey mapping, hypothesis definition, user experience flows, user interface design & interactions, user acceptance tests, and feature list definition, even developing user personas from scenarios of use and interaction models. This is your jam.

Make a big impact in creating the next evolution of GoDaddy’s user experience. As a Principal UX Designer, you will be part of a collaborative, customer-obsessed team working to deliver innovative solutions to empower and assist customers as they define their online presence. This is a unique opportunity to join a growing team that’s changing the face of GoDaddy and helping small businesses around the world build, manage, and grow their business.

What you’ll do: 

• Lead key initiatives for our Experience Design team that are complex, large projects or across multiple small tracks.
• Shape the UX Design solution and process on a project, defining the deliverables and managing the team’s time to execute those deliverables. 
• Be the consistent voice across the entire lifecycle of a project. 
• Communicate the ‘why’ and rationale behind the interaction design, insights to the team and client.  
• Be the advocate of UX Design and communicate rationale to an interdisciplinary team that includes visual designers, writers, project managers, strategists, and developers.
• Guide the design team, with a strong partnership on visual design and technology through launch optimizations on projects.
• Partner with clients as the primary UX Designer to make the best work, pushing the most innovative experiences that solve the user’s needs and deliver results.

What we’d like to see:

• 10+ years’ experience in delivering consumer software products to market. 
• Successful track record leading interdisciplinary teams in creating great digital experiences.
• Deep knowledge of your craft (research, interaction design, prototyping and optimization analytics).
• Proven skills in mentoring, presenting, client partnership and visual communication.
• Strong communication and presentation skills demonstrated internally and with clients.
• Demonstrated breadth of expertise and proficiency/experience in modern technology and software tools. 

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