Senior Interaction Designer

Smart Design is a strategic design and innovation consultancy. We work with clients ranging from fast-growing startups to some of the world’s most recognized brands. Design at Smart is deeply collaborative and multi-disciplinary. We come from a range of backgrounds and skillsets, but are unified by a passion for creating meaningful experiences that simply make life better.

Interaction designers are Smart’s digital and experience experts. They have a sharp curiosity for the role technology plays in everyday life — working across disciplines on innovative experiences for our clients.

We’re looking for designers that:

• Have a passion for the entire process of design — from conducting research to defining strategic insights, and creating concepts and sketches to high-fidelity designs and prototyping.
• Thrive on collaborating across disciplines — partnering with strategists, visual designers, industrial designers, engineers, and technologists.
• Are forever curious learners — with a desire to expand their skillset, tackle new challenges, and explore new industries, tools, processes, and all things related to design and technology.
• Get excited for ambiguous and challenging projects — where open-ended outcomes and innovation are not intimidating.
• Think both systematically and create freely — with the ability to ideate wild ideas as well as pay excellent attention to the details.
• Plan and facilitate primary user research in partnership with our strategists — from generative IDIs to usability testing, alpha and beta pilots, or global surveys, and diary studies.
• Craft insights and design experiences that solve for the audiences’ unmet needs — while balancing client business objectives.
• Want to join a vibrant, creative Brooklyn studio — where every day we’re building and testing new products over far too much espresso.

Naturally, you have:

• A degree in interaction design, graphic design, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience designing high-quality, polished digital products and services including web, mobile, and desktop applications. Bonus if you have experience with spatial computing or IoT interfaces such as embedded software, wearables, or multi-interface systems.
• Acted as a design lead, supporting a multi-disciplinary team to deliver innovative products, experiences, and strategies.
• Strong skills in areas like ideation and sketching, developing interface concepts, and an affinity for visual storytelling.
• Experience creating UX documentation including journey maps, user flows, landscape audits, product roadmaps, and design systems.
• Ability to prototype ideas in current prototyping software (e.g., Figma, Framer, code) with sharp attention to animation, micro-interactions, and responsive design.
• Sharp communication skills that connect users behaviors and mindsets to strategic design decisions through narrative storytelling.

 

Please note, the role is based in Brooklyn and the candidate will be onsite a minimum of 3 days per week.

The salary range will be dependent on experience and from a full-time salary perspective will range from $100,000-$125,000 plus benefits.

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. At this time, we are unable to sponsor for this position.