The North Face:
UX Art Director Job in Alameda, CA (San Francisco Bay Area), VT

Reporting to the Director of Digital Creative, the UX Art Director contributes to the success of The North Face’s business by creating best-in-class mobile-first digital experiences that are based in user-centric design principles. The ideal candidate should have experience creating successful revenue-driving marketing experiences, storytelling and brand experiences, as well as digital interfaces and interactions.

A problem solver at heart. You strive to help users successfully complete tasks with little to no friction or confusion. You see the work through the lens of the brand and the needs as well as the user and are comfortable taking charge to drive the completion of a project through all steps including experience maps, stakeholder interviews, user testing, wireframes, art direction & design. You are comfortable presenting your work to multiple cross-divisional partners and divisional leaders.

CANDIDATE CHARACTERISTICS
- Creative Problem Solving
- Clear Communicator
- Time Management
- Process Management
- Highly organized
- Detail Oriented
- Elevated taste level
- Understanding of The North Face customer
- Up to date on best practices

RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop design wireframes, mockups, and specifications
- Define interaction models, user task flows, and UI specifications
- Evaluate UX success or failure objectively
- Gather and evaluate user requirements with stakeholders, managers, and developers.
- Help to create a global design system and reference library
- Conducting usability testing
- Creating wireframes, storyboards, sitemaps, screen flows and prototypes
- Creatively solve UX problems
- Communicate design ideas and prototypes to developers
- Knowledge of industry trends
- Illustrating design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps
- Design graphic user interface elements.
- Create original graphic designs (e.g. images, sketches and tables)
- Responsive to UX issues and tracking them effectively