Experience Designer in Bethesda, Maryland

Experience Designer
It?s a powerful feeling, to belong. It?s inspiring people to do more than they thought they could. It?s leading the way by rolling up your sleeves to accomplish a common goal. It?s taking a passion and turning it into your vision. Belonging is what it feels like to work at Marriott. If this sounds like the place for you, join us.
The Marriott International HQ, located at xxxx0 Fernwood Road, Bethesda, MD, xxxx7 is currently hiring a Experience Designer.
Responsibilities include:
The Experience Designer supports a vision for how experiences should be designed and contributes a set of user experience skills to help create successful products for users across all of Marriott's digital services.
EXPECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
In the course of your work with Marriott?s digital products, including Marriott.com ? one of the top 10 revenue-generating web sites in the world ? you?ll come in every day ready to tackle interesting, challenging work. Here?s what you?ll be doing:
? Applying your own experiences and learnings to support the development of the experience design practice, using best practices and design approaches that fit in well with the Marriott culture and needs
? Producing work with a strong foundation in UX standards and guidelines, supporting its development and maintenance to design cohesive experiences
? Supporting the creation of design strategies through your own ideas and research, to produce work that aligns to these strategies
? Working on one or more products where your decisions will align to high-level organizational strategies and KPIs, which will in turn, inform your goals for the ye ar
? Staying on top of the latest techniques being used by our direct competitors and other eCommerce sites.
? Basing decisions on user research findings and insights, observing users interact with our product or a competitor?s for at least two hours every six weeks
CANDIDATE PROFILE ? KEY TALENTS AND EXPERIENCE DESIRED
Candidate Profile
You?re exactly who we?re looking for if you:
? Value deadlines, set realistic expectations around them and then meet them
? Can balance user, business and technical needs, and will go to bat for users if things are out of kilter
? Help teams define a product?s problem areas from our most important users? perspective
? Understand the blurry line between skills, and use collaboration as the best way to deal with it
? Have a current understanding of web technologies and principles? like responsive design, front-end markup and libraries such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and Ajax methods, plus Content Management Systems, Web Services, and APIs?and know how they?re integrated and used
? Have most of the following communication and interpersonal skills: facilitation, presentation, storytelling, sketching and critiquing
? Want to actively work with a coach to fill in any gaps
? Can establish su ccessful, long-term relationships in your core areas
? Feel comfortable with basic statistics and analysis, and can use data to inform your decisions
? Are proficient with spreadsheets (MS Excel), and know when it?s a good time to use a spreadsheet as a tool
Education and Experience
Our ideal candidate has at least a Bachelor?s Degree in Experience or Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Information Architecture, Library Sciences, Human Factors, Psychology, Anthropology, Branding or Marketing (or similar), or three or more years of equivalent experience in related field with proven track record.
To submit your application for this job, please go to:
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