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OCLC is seeking a Lead Experience Designer to enhance user interaction and visual design for their enterprise products, ensuring improved usability and appeal. This hybrid role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and conducting user research to inform design decisions.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include developing navigation models, creating detailed UI designs, collaborating on user-centered design processes, and facilitating design thinking sessions.

Skills: Required skills include expertise in responsive design, experience with enterprise web applications, proficiency in Figma, and strong abilities in creating UX deliverables.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include 7+ years of relevant experience, a Bachelor's Degree in a related field, and familiarity with best practices in visual design.

Location: Hybrid role based in Dublin, Ohio, requiring three days in the office per week.

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation ranges for this position are between $100,000 - $150,000.

Together we make breakthroughs possible.

At OCLC, we build technology with a purpose: to connect libraries and make knowledge accessible worldwide, because we believe that what is known must be shared. Our teams work with complex global datasets, AI and machine learning, hybrid cloud solutions, and other technologies that connect people and organizations to the information they need. We value the power of unique perspectives and experiences to unlock innovation. At OCLC, your ideas matter, whether you have two years of experience or 20. You’ll learn, create, and problem-solve with technologists, product developers, librarians, researchers, marketing pros, and support teams around the world.

Why join OCLC?

OCLC is consistently recognized as a best place to work by several independent programs Werecognize and rewardpeople and resultswith a comprehensive Total Rewards package. This means competitive compensation that reflects your unique contributions—performance, experience, and skills—along with exceptional benefits, including best-in-class health coverage, retirement plans with generous company contributions, and a commitment to your overall well-being.

• We know the best ideas don’t always happen at a desk. Take a walking meeting around our 100-acre campus or enjoy lunch on the patio.We’re committed to your success—both personally and professionally. Hybrid work environment: For many roles, three days a week on-site, with occasional additional days based on business needs.
• Free use of our on-site fitness center, gym sports, group exercise classes, and game room
• Onsite catering and cafeteria subsidized by OCLC
• Health and wellness events
• Work environments with individual and team spaces and the latest technology tools
• Paid parental leave and adoption assistance
• Tuition reimbursement and Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility
• Company-subsidized pricing on local tickets and memberships

Join us in transforming how people everywhere access informationand be part of a mission-driven team that makes a global impact.

The Job Details are as follows:

The Lead Experience Designer provides user-centered interaction and visual design methodology to improve the usability, ease of use, and enhance appeal, and maximize functionality provided through the interaction between the customer and a product or service, addressing all aspects of a product or service as perceived by users.

*Please include portfolio along with resume*

Responsibilities:

• Connect key groups of people, Research, Experience, Business teams to deliver the work and socialize it
• Develop scenarios, navigation models and prototypes for demonstration of concept
• Create detailed UI designs with accessibility in mind and collaborate with engineers to bring it to life.
• Though you may often be working as the only designer on a project you will need to be comfortable giving feedback on other associate's designs and deliverables across the business.
• Partner and collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams throughout all stages of the user-centered design process including documentation of user types, scenarios and tasks, conceptual models and process flows, wireframes and mock-ups and other related design artifacts
• Comfortable engaging with internal and external customers, reflecting OCLC values 
• Collaborate with UX Research on research plan, stakeholder interviews, user interviews and capable of running ad-hoc user research as required
• Facilitate design thinking and ideation sessions

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in responsive design, visual design or related field.
• 7+ years of experience with responsive design and related best practices as well as with designing enterprise web applications.
• 7+ years experience creating UX deliverables such as wireframes, user flows, user journeys, sitemaps, personas, high fidelity designs, Figma prototypes, etc.
• Highly competent using Figma, Miro, Microsoft office software

*Please submit portfolio along with resume*

Working Conditions: Normal office environment. Hybrid role - in office three days a week in Dublin OH.

ADA/EAA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.