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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, Georgia

About this job

POSITION PURPOSE -

'Want to know what it's like to work in IT at The Home Depot?' https://vimeo.com/70037824

We are seeking world-class talent looking to build a career with one of the world's largest home improvement retailers, operating more than 2,200 store locations in the U.S, Canada and Mexico. Specifically, your role falls within the Pro/Tool Rental/Paint area of IT, encompassing applications and processes that support how The Home Depot interacts with our professional customers, such as contractors and remodelers. The Home Depot offers a range of special services to these customers whom make up more than 40% of our business. You will be exposed to the latest technologies running at large, enterprise scale. You will work with business partners to understand our strategic initiatives.

The Senior UX Designer, is responsible for delivering the vision, experience and creative strategy for their respective projects and products. They will need to build strong relationships with product management peers, development and other critical partners to establish and deliver on the business and customer requirements that enhances our digital experiences and products, meets the business goals and strengthens our Home Depot differentiation strategies. Reporting to the Manager, User Experience, the Senior UX Designer will be responsible for their large scale, cross-functional projects, product roadmaps, relevant research, user experience strategy and final creative from concept development, wireframes and design to final execution across all digital properties. Balancing creative and innovative solutions with solid leadership skills, this associate will work with the team to successfully translate business objectives into innovative and best-in-class, customer-centric solutions.

- Translate wireframes into comps, storyboards, experience prototypes.
- Responsible for developing and communicating industry-leading creative concepts while balancing strategic development with online business objectives.
- Build and maintain relationship with merchandising, usability, seo, technology, partner agencies, photographers and other vendors.
- Provide quality assurance of all creative deliverables.

The Senior Developer must have and be able to promote an appropriate sense of urgency in regard to deliverables, and be able to effectively partner with the team and the business to develop and deliver IT solutions. In addition, the candidate will be responsible for guiding the work produced by more junior developers and contract developers including code reviews.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS -

- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
- Understanding of motion design and the strengths and limitations of Flash, AfterEffects, Ajax, Flex, and other emerging platforms.
- Previous project leadership experience in a retail environment a plus
- Demonstrated user experience design skills with expert knowledge of current design programs
- Proficiency with a variety of rapid prototyping and visualization tools (e.g., Axure, iRise, Balsamiq, Omnigraffle, Visio, Adobe CS5, etc.), with a high-level understanding of how HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can be used for prototyping purposes
- Understanding of the capabilities and limitations of HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Understand W3C standards as well as browser-specific bugs and variations, in IE, Mozilla and Safari
- Understanding of browser display differences on different platforms
- Demonstrated experience in designing creative and web pages for e-commerce websites
- Ability to concept, present and execute.
- Act as an exemplary representative of the online experience team in its dealings with internal clients and external vendors with the ability to interact comfortably with executives at highest levels of the Company.
- Provide strong client management skills with flawless follow-up.
- Provide creative solutions consistent with industry trends, demonstrating ability to problem-solve, organize and project manage.
- Ability to translate complex information into easy-to-understand designs and visual elements.
- Proven ability working in fast paced environment with shifting priorities while managing tactical deliverables and meeting deadlines.
- Ability to maintain strong rapport with teammates, and stakeholders from multiple business groups.
- Previous experience with UX in Agile development
- Experience working in a collaborative, cross-functional team; consistently demonstrating effective management of shifting priorities, delivering thorough work products, and meeting project deadlines

MAJOR TASKS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
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Define, plan and implement solutions on assigned moderately complex projects.

Take business requirements and develop the total technical design on moderately complex projects and ensure proper usage as part of the design efforts in building a system to be put into production.

Conduct appropriate test reviews for assigned projects and present to architecture review boards as necessary.

Promote and follow the established processes, policies, standards and procedures to assure compliance with corporate and regulatory policies and standards.

Provide technical direction to associate developers, developers and contractors.



NATURE AND SCOPE
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Typically reports to Manager, Information Technology

Responsible for helping others and providing on-the-job training or guidance


ENVIRONMENTAL JOB REQUIREMENTS
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Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS -

Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must pass the Drug Test.
Must successfully complete any required training or orientation courses.

EDUCATION REQUIRED -

The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a high school diplomas and/or GED.


YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
- 3

PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTS -

Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.


KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES AND COMPETENCIES -

Ability to work independently with minimal direction.

Ability to communicate issues and recommend solutions in a timely manner to Management.

Strong decision making abilities.

Experience developing new application systems for production.