Senior User Experience (UX) Designer

"**Senior User Experience (UX) Designer****Preferred Qualifications****About this role and who were looking for**Are you driven by solving complex problems, designing products that enable businesses across the globe to succeed, all while focusing on end-users and business impact? Are you an experienced designer looking to join a high-performing Design team where your influence will be felt immediately? At **Oracle Utilities,** we work with some of the most advanced utilities in the world, helping them leverage large volumes of data to meet the needs of a rapidly changing landscape. We are driven by helping utilities and their customers move toward a clean energy future, fundamentally changing the relationship between customers and their utilities, and anticipating the future of the utility industry.We are seeking a Senior User Experience (UX) Designer to join our team of product designers, writers, and researchers responsible for designing enterprise software, collaborating with product management, and working with product architects and engineers. The right candidate will energize the team, foster collaboration across the organization and lead the drive toward high-caliber, high-performing products in our data centers and our clients ecosystems. With a strong, established process and relevant background, this designer will join a small and significant team and contribute to the vision and success of a human-centered design practice within our organization and the utility/energy industry.You are seeking to shape the experience of the users of our software as well as that of the teams around the world implementing our products. Your attention to detail is renowned, your design skills impeccable, and you love putting structure around difficult problems. You thrive on being hands-on and immersive. You look for opportunities to improve the way things work. You are used to the bulkiness of enterprise software for a complex, highly regulated industry, but you have the drive to challenge the enterprise software status quo. You are also experienced working with PM teams and know how to clarify requirements and work towards consensus and compromise.You can learn more about our team by visiting our UX team site: https://ux.opower.com/**Show your work, share your process**Show us projects that demonstrate your enthusiasm for solving complex problems, meeting the needs of the user, all while supporting clearly identified business objectives. We want to see human-centered product designs that showcase your process and creativity for solving interesting challenges and drive value for users and clients alike. **A portfolio is required.****What youll make happen:**+ Get up to speed on Oracle Utilities products, with particular focus on Utilities Customer Experience+ Establish relationships with product management and engineering teams+ Work with the managers of these teams to continually improve our design and development processes+ Act as the user-advocate in cross-functional teams with product, architects and engineering+ Lead high-visibility hands-on design projects from concept through delivery+ Lead complex, multidisciplinary projects from start to finish+ Present your work to internal and client stakeholders+ Establish functional collaboration with fellow designers, product teams and development+ Partner with user research to support your design process and recommendations+ Provide ongoing support to PMs and engineers during development project rollouts+ Contribute to Oracles Design culture with your own unique talents and grow your career down a path thats right for you**You get excited by:**+ Designing for highly configurable systems and application frameworks+ Delivering products and experiences that elevate the user experience and engagement in unexpected ways+ Shaping the experience and growth of the designers on your team, naturally leading and inspiring your colleagues+ Communicating design process and recommendations effectively with Senior Directors and below across the organization+ Creating and refining team design practices, processes and tools used by the rest of the team+ Modeling a consistently positive attitude for other team members+ Mentoring peers as well as junior team members.**Desired qualifications:**+ BA/BS in a design-oriented discipline (or equivalent work experience)+ At least 7 years relevant design experience, working with a UX team+ A passion for working within a high-performing design team+ A portfolio of well-designed, human-centered projects (include password, if required)**Position location:**+ San Francisco Bay AreaIf you identify with the qualities weve described here, wed love to speak with you.**Detailed Description and Job Requirements**Responsible for creating, evaluating and modifying prototypes to support evolving hardware and software application development.As a member of the User Experience team, you will develop and apply software design/usability processes in the investigation of technical problems. May develop user profiles, with emphasis on human error control, display issues, visual interaction, physical manipulation and task and objective analyses. Provide product usability, evaluation and support to product development teams, including the analysis and investigation of applications/systems including tactile methods, visual graphics, web, multimedia, voice response and conversational user interaction. May assist in developing design concept and implementation, providing input on user design considerations. May produce specifications describing user needs and internal structures for product in development.Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. Typically seven years of software engineering or related experience needed.**Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.****Oracle is an Affirmative Action-Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veterans status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.****Job:** Product Development**Location:** US-CA,California-San Francisco**Job Type:** Regular Employee Hire**Organization:** Oracle"