Sr Product Designer - Rider

About the Role

Uber Design teams are focused not just on the functional, but also on joy and delight. Our work ignites opportunity and changes the way the world moves, and we design for users around the world of all backgrounds and abilities.

As a Product Designer, you'll take on interaction and service design challenges, and you'll work on big new ideas that will transform how people use our product. You'll collaborate with engineers, product managers and some of the world's best designers and researchers in a fast-paced, rapidly growing environment. You'll make magic by crafting and shipping delightful experiences for people around the world.

• This is a Product Design / User Experience Design position on the Rides Design team
• You will work on Uber's flagship consumer experience: Riders all over the world take over 100 million Uber rides every month. As a designer on this team, you have the opportunity to drive real change for people, for the processes that get us there, and the product innovations that we'll build.
• This team thinks about frameworks and scalability and is passionate about craft and quality. We partner closely with systems designers, engineers, and product partners. We also collaborate widely with all teams that build into the Uber app.

--- What the Candidate Will Do ----

An expert on the Uber Design team: Learn how we collaborate and use design tools, how to design with the Uber Base design system, and be an example of how we design for clarity, inclusion, accessibility, scalability, and global localization

An expert in your product area: Learn about complex business goals and strategy, understand existing tech platforms, and build on your team’s product development and launch review process

Scope: Work on projects of all sizes, from problems that are well-known to those more complex and conceptual, while leading a roadmap in your product area.

Process: Build a deep understanding of the users you’re designing for through data and research, lead the end-to-end design process, solicit and incorporate feedback from experts, translate your designs to build with engineers, and work flexibly with a variety of teams. Design at all levels of fidelity and practice good judgment on making tradeoffs.

Craft: Deliver designs that are innovative and sophisticated, buildable and scalable, and are thoroughly documented. Develop a strong understanding of business, data, and engineering requirements, and create experiences that deliver customer value.

Efficiency: Prioritize and manage your time efficiently, operate with a high level of autonomy, and adapt easily to challenges.

Communication: Communicate with clarity and persuasiveness, and effectively present your work and rationale to all the relevant stakeholders. Proactively connect with your team and manager, facilitate design sessions, and collaborate with other designers.

---- Basic Qualifications ----

• 6+ years of experience building products for mobile apps
• Proficiency with Figma or similar tools and prototyping methods
• Experience working and collaborating in a tech environment
• A portfolio showing your high-quality, thoughtful UI and UX work

---- Preferred Qualifications ----

• A degree in HCI, Graphic Design, or a related field
• Experience working with user experience researchers and various methods of research and user testing
• Experience designing experiments or A/B testing
• Experience building into design systems and implementing systems components with engineers