Senior UX Designer

  • Full-time
  • Department: General Development

Company Description

PubMatic is a digital advertising technology company for premium content creators. The PubMatic platform empowers independent app developers and publishers to control and maximize their digital advertising businesses. PubMatic’s publisher-first approach enables advertisers to maximize ROI by reaching and engaging their target audiences in brand-safe, premium environments across ad formats and devices. Since 2006, PubMatic has created an efficient, global infrastructure and remains at the forefront of programmatic innovation.  Headquartered in Redwood City, California, PubMatic operates 13 offices and nine data centers worldwide.

Job Description

As a Senior User Experience UX Designer, you help define and drive the future of PubMatic design. You work with product managers to identify and set product strategy, design simple solutions for complex UX ecosystems and inspire team members to push the boundaries of what’s possible.

As part of the User Experience team, you’ll be involved in all aspects of product development from brainstorming the next innovation to working collaboratively with user research, engineering, product management to bring it to life. You will utilize a full range of skills including, user research, wire framing, interaction design, prototyping, and visual design to bring these experiences to life. Most importantly, you will have a direct impact on the customer experience of publishers, advertisers, and brand-owners alike.

Minimum qualifications:

  • At least 5 years of experience in UX Design.
  • Portfolio of UX-focused work samples for complex web applications (preferably experience designing and building data visualizations)
  • Ability and willingness to work with stakeholders in international time zones (particularly USA)

Preferred qualifications:

UX Basics + Process:

  • Deep understanding and experience in leading user-centered design methods and best practices - and you're always looking to improve on your process. 
  • Experience in conducting user research and facilitating interviews with internal and external clients and prove this in your design thinking/solutions. 
  • Collaborate with product managers, technical leads, customers, and other stakeholders to introduce, iterate, and clarify requirements. 
  • Experience creating user stories, personas, and storyboards. 
  • Ability to translate complex requirements into easy user flows. 
  • Experience using quantitative data, qualitative feedback, user research, competitive analysis and other approaches to help make decisions and iterate on the product. 
  • Determine information architecture and create sitemaps. 
  • Create prototypes and wireframes. 
  • Experience in conducting usability testing. 
  • Ability to present and validate design concepts with internal and external business stakeholders. 
  • You have experience overseeing the user experience of a product from conception until launch and beyond. 
  • Excellent communication, presentation and analytical skills. 
  • Knowledge of industry tools such as Sketch, InVision, Adobe XD, Marvel, Zeplin. 

Work Ethic:

  • Experience leading multiple product areas at once. 
  • The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, agile environment. 
  • Values teamwork, and can give and solicit feedback from other teammates in order to continually raise the bar for quality. 
  • You can produce results independently as well as collaboratively in a team. 
  • Self-motivated, a good communicator, and able to balance great design with meeting short deadlines. 
  • Strong organization skills and attention to detail. 
  • Ask smart questions, take risks and champion new ideas. 

Bonus Points:

  • B2B and AdTech experience 
  • Knowledge in creating design systems
  • Knowledge in using Pendo, Google analytics or similar behavioral analytics platforms. 
  • Experience in UX copy writing: ability to devise and implement a UX editorial strategy.

Qualifications

Excellent communication, presentation and analytical skills.

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Additional Information

Coronavirus notice: PubMatic is actively working to ensure candidate and employee safety. Currently, all hiring and onboarding processes at PubMatic will be carried out remotely through virtual meetings until further notice.

Benefits: Our benefits package includes the best of what leading organizations provide, such as stock options, paternity/maternity leave, healthcare insurance, broadband reimbursement. As well, when we’re back in the office, we all benefit from a kitchen loaded with healthy snacks and drinks and catered lunches and much more!

Diversity and Inclusion: PubMatic is proud to be an equal opportunity employer; we don’t just value diversity, we promote and celebrate it.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.