Junior UX/UI Designer

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Junior UX/UI Designer

                                                                                                         

                                             


The PCA Group of Companies is a fully vertically integrated, tech-enabled, and truly omnichannel global distribution company for the worldwide beauty and wellness sector. Led by the founding family for over 30 years, our 1500-person team supports multichannel distribution to 150+ countries. Through our interwoven set of capabilities — investments, logistics, retail strategy, and marketing, among others — we empower our clients to cut through the noise in an increasingly saturated global market.

As a Junior UX/UI Designer, you will play a critical role in helping create and maintain useful, delightful, intuitive user-centered designs for brand and e-commerce websites across the beauty / wellness / personal care industries. The Junior UX/IX Designer role reports to and supports the Creative Lead / Lead UX/UI Designer. The Junior UX/UI Designer will also closely collaborate within our creative team and cross-functionally with IT/Engineering, Digital Marketing, Client Services, and others.

This role is a hybrid role. The Junior UX/UI Designer would need to be available to come to either our NYC or Long Island office 2 to 3 times per week.

Responsibilities

  • Support UX process phases, from ideation through usability testing, helping create, manage and deploy responsive designs across mobile, desktop and tablet

  • Support Lead UX/UI Designer in all UX/UI creative and production efforts (ideation, information architecture, wireframing, responsive design build out, prototyping and usability testing)

  • Occasionally own or lead technical page design and production in support of overarching product/site direction

  • Occasionally own or lead upfront research and synthesis efforts including but not limited to user interviews, competitive and comparative research, persona and customer journey definition

  • Work closely with the creative team on a daily basis; frequently partner across the larger organization (Digital Marketing, Client Services, IT/Engineering, etc.) to understand customer and business needs, informing UX strategy and decisions

  • Interface with external clients as necessary, supporting collaboration, ideation and presenting design recommendations

  • Organize and maintain UX and creative asset libraries per client or project


Qualifications

  • BFA or BA in UX/IU, Interaction or Human Centered Design or related field; or comparable professional experience and certifications

  • Deep familiarity with UX / user-centered design concepts and methodologies

  • Genuine interest in all UX process phases, from research to usability testing

  • Ability to translate opportunities and requirements into design solutions

  • Process-driven; loves to work iteratively and is open to feedback and constantly improving a design

  • Design detail oriented - is obsessed with pixel-perfect designs, particularly in dev hand-off

  • Experienced with Figma (Principle a plus)

  • Experienced with Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop; AfterEffects a plus)

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