Senior Digital Product Designer (Senior UX Designer)

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Extreme Networks is a publicly traded tech company (EXTR) whose solutions are used by the world's largest enterprises. We push the boundaries of technology by leveraging machine learning, artificial intelligence, analytics, and automation across a suite of networking solutions. We are a Technology Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant. With offices and employees worldwide, we were early to embrace a fully remote model to attract and retain global talent.

There has never been a better time to join Extreme. We have seen enormous growth opportunities after three acquisitions extending our portfolio and go-to-market (GTM) strategy. Aside from being a Technology Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, Extreme also promotes an internal culture that embraces workplace diversity, inclusion, and equality. Having Diversity and Inclusion as part of our core values and beliefs, we are proud to foster an environment where every Extreme employee can thrive because of their differences, not despite them.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Extreme seeks a Senior Digital Product Designer (Senior UX Designer). This individual contributor (IC) will collaborate on design strategy, design validation, and execution within a balanced team of Product Managers and Software Engineers to deliver incrementally while progressing toward valuable outcomes. We are a team of passionate, creative technologists, UX Designers, UX Writers, UX Researchers, UX Strategists, and experience innovators who will build and deliver user-centric solutions that accelerate a customer-first experience via adopting the Extreme Design System. You will feel like you’re working in a “start-up” with the stability and knowledge of a leading technology company.

The Position: Senior Digital Product Designer (Senior UX Designer)

As a Senior Product Designer/Senior UX Designer, the primary role is to advocate for the user, understand user needs and goals, conduct user research, and create designs that meet user needs. A significant part of the role is communication. Product designers consistently communicate user pain points and design iterations to product managers, developers, and business stakeholders. The product designer consistently tests the design and working software throughout development and iterates on the design.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be a leader with a vision to help advance Extreme’s experience strategy globally and challenge others to change and adopt modern experience methodologies.
• Manage the full lifecycle of systems and applications by working iteratively as a Design expert within a balanced team of Product Managers and Software Engineers to deliver incrementally while progressing toward valuable outcomes.
• Facilitate User Research initiatives across teams.
• Develop User Centric Design practices, ensuring end-users' needs, wants, and limitations are the focus at all stages of the Design and Product Development lifecycles.
• Present Design Discovery & Framing with inputs from research initiatives and ideation testing prototypes, providing valuable synthesis and recommendations to key stakeholders and users at Extreme Networks.
• Contribute to the design systems, data visualizations, and visual design for feedback and testing to drive adoptable outcomes.
• Lead cross-functional consulting and collaboration, demonstrating leadership by helping the team and stakeholders navigate product vision, high-level business priorities, and desired outcomes.
• Participate in Scoping, Design Thinking, Kick-Off, and other workshops with other team members, eventually assuming the role of inception facilitator.
• Support design reviews to ensure the production of high-quality design artifacts across the team of designers.
• Educate partners like product management and engineering on design practices.
• Assist with recruiting and hiring.

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Full-time

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