Job Description

Job Title: UX Designer III
Location: San Francisco, CA
Employment Type: Contract - 08 Months w/possible extension

Top Responsibilities

• The contract designer will be responsible for the following work streams, which are integral to our 2025 and 2026 product roadmaps:

Support Driving Navigation

• Finalize production design and asset delivery to engineering.
• Maneuver Landmarks Styling: Complete and implement the final visual styling for landmarks in 2D, 2.5D, and 3D across all relevant configurations.

Walking Navigation

• Core User Experience Design: Lead the design and polish of the core 3D walking navigation experience, leveraging hero use cases.
• Interdepartmental Collaboration: Work with product leads to identify design adaptations and data gaps needed for walking journeys.
• Visual Direction and Prototyping: Collaborate with the visual design team on concepts for leadership review and create coded prototypes to pressure-test design hypotheses with Engineering.

Project & Team Support

• Support Design needs at scale helping designers across the team expand capacity in design and collaborative development.
• Provide continuity by actively participating in design critiques, planning sessions, and stakeholder meetings.
• Serve as a daily point of contact for cross-functional partners.
• Ensure quality control by conducting necessary design reviews and providing detailed feedback.

Mandatory Skills or Qualifications / Minimum role qualifications requirement

• 6 years of motion design experience in product design or UX/UI animation.
• Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link and/or access instructions).
• Senior-level UX execution with a proven track record of bringing products to launch.
• Deep understanding of cartographic, typographic, and complex design systems.
• Ability to drive design decisions and execute against them in close partnership with Product and Engineering leads.
• Some web-coding background, particularly in CSS, to facilitate work using internal coding systems.
• Exceptional communication skills to present and defend design rationale to stakeholders and leadership.
• Bonus: Experience designing for the map or driving/walking navigation systems is a significant advantage.

Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.

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