UX Designer - Mobile

UX Designer - Mobile

Location: Hybrid - Cork, Ireland

Company Summary:

At NETGEAR, we are on a mission to unleash the full potential of connectivity with intelligent solutions that delight and protect. We turn ideas into innovative networking products that connect people, power businesses, and advance the way we live.

We're a performance-driven, talented and diverse team that's committed to delivering world-class products for our customers. As a company, we value our employees as the most essential building blocks of our success. And as teammates, we commit to taking our work to the next gear by living our values: we Dare to Transform the future, Connect and Delight our customers, Communicate Courageously with each other and collaborate to Win It Together. You’ll find our values woven through our processes, present in our decisions, and celebrated throughout our culture.

We strive to attract top talent and create a great workplace where people feel engaged, inspired, challenged, proud and respected. If you are creative, forward-thinking, passionate about technology and are looking for a rewarding career to make an impact, then you've got what it takes to succeed at NETGEAR. Join our network and help us shape the future of connectivity.

Job Summary:

As a UX Designer in NETGEAR’s new Center of Excellence in Cork, you will play a pivotal role in shaping next-generation software subscription services that are transforming our business.

Focusing on mobile UX design, you will create intuitive, engaging mobile experiences with an emphasis on interactions between mobile applications and hardware devices like routers and other networking equipment. You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams in an agile environment to craft seamless user journeys for NETGEAR's iOS and Android mobile apps.

A key challenge you will tackle is improving the onboarding process in the mobile app, ensuring users can complete it successfully on their first attempt. Additionally, you will drive efforts to increase customer sign-ups for subscription services through the mobile app, enhancing the overall user experience.

As a hybrid role, you'll work from the Cork office at least two days a week, balancing in-person collaboration with the flexibility of remote work. Your contributions will be crucial in NETGEAR’s evolution, as the company transitions toward a software-driven model.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead UX design for mobile applications that interact with networking devices, focusing on seamless integration between mobile interfaces and hardware.
• Collaborate with product management, engineers, and marketing teams to design innovative mobile UX solutions for configuring, monitoring, and managing NETGEAR hardware devices as well as our subscriptions offerings.
• Conduct user research and usability testing, gathering insights to understand user needs and pain points specific to mobile-hardware interactions.
• Create wireframes, user flows, prototypes, and visual designs that translate research findings into impactful mobile UX solutions.
• Advocate for best practices in mobile-hardware interaction design, ensuring designs accommodate responsive layouts, adaptive design, and hardware-specific user needs.
• Stay informed on mobile UX/UI design trends, mobile-hardware interaction best practices, and emerging technologies to keep NETGEAR’s mobile apps innovative.

A Typical Day Might Include:

• Morning Standup Meeting: Begin the day with an agile standup meeting, updating your team on progress, discussing blockers, and collaborating with product managers, developers, and other designers.
• Design Work: Refine user flows, build high-fidelity wireframes, or create interactive prototypes using tools like Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD to visually communicate how mobile apps enable users to configure and manage NETGEAR hardware.
• User Research and Testing: Conduct usability tests or analyze user feedback on mobile interactions with hardware to ensure the design is intuitive and effective.
• Sprint Planning and Refinement: Participate in sprint planning or backlog refinement, providing UX input on upcoming features to ensure they align with NETGEAR’s goals.
• Iteration and Feedback: Review feedback from developers or stakeholders and iterate on wireframes or prototypes, ensuring designs are technically feasible and user-friendly.
• Continuous Learning and Improvement: Join regular retrospectives to reflect on team performance, focusing on continuous improvement in design processes and user experience.

About You:

Minimum Requirements:

• 3+ years of professional UX design experience with a focus on mobile applications, particularly those that interact with hardware or IoT devices.
• Strong portfolio showcasing mobile app designs, ideally with examples of projects involving mobile-hardware interactions (e.g., routers, smart home devices, networking equipment).
• Proficiency in mobile UX design tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or similar, with experience creating user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and final visual assets.
• Familiarity with mobile platform-specific guidelines (iOS Human Interface Guidelines, Android Material Design).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skill to ensure consensus on designs across Product, Marketing and engineering across multiple geographies.
• Experience working in an Agile environment and collaborating with cross-functional teams including product managers and developers.

Desired Skills:

• Experience designing mobile apps for IoT products or networking devices such as routers, mesh systems, or smart home hubs.
• Experience of designing consumer grade mobile interfaces.
• Knowledge of hardware communication protocols (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi) and how they impact mobile-hardware interactions.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and iterative design processes.

What we Offer:

• Competitive Compensation Package, including shares and bonus schemes.
• 35 days of vacation (including public holidays)
• Flexible Hybrid Working Model
• Private Health Insurance with 100% covered premiums for you and any dependents
• Generous Master Trust Pension arrangement (up to 12% Employer Contribution)
• Life Assurance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Learning and Development Benefits, including Tuition reimbursement.
• Free Lunch and Parking

NETGEAR is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best available people in every job. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition including genetic characteristics, sexual orientation, military and veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. It also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.