Senior UI Designer

Creating Peace of Mind by Pioneering Safety and Security

At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 30 brands, 11,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond.

Senior UI Designer - Remote

The Allegion Digital Product Design Team is seeking a UI Designer to join us on our mission of transforming users into fans. The UI Designer is responsible for identifying, prioritizing, and delivering user interface components & patterns for Allegion's Multi-Family Access software portfolio and the Allegion design system. In this role you'll be collaborating with development teams responsible for building the components and driving the desirability, accessibility, and usability of our desktop and mobile applications.

What You Will Do:

• Own the UI design for our commercial Multi-Family Access software portfolio, including the creation of new and management of existing UI design elements (including typography & iconography)
• Contribute design standards & components to the design system for use by other Allegion software teams
• Provide detailed (red line) design specifications to development partners as needed
• Partner with developers to ensure design components & patterns they build meet quality standards
• Provide graphical assets required by design and development partners
• Use existing design system/standards to create detailed UI design comps
• Work with Design Research to test components & patterns
• Review designs and advise Interaction and UI Designers on implementation of the design system
• Provide estimates for design deliverables
• Actively participate in design reviews, critiquing the work of other designers, and collecting feedback on your own work
• Participate in Agile ceremonies with product teams (stand-ups, demos, retrospectives)
• Ensure product teams have any design documentation required to complete their work
• Work with teammates to prioritize product backlogs and your workload

What You Need to Succeed:

• BA/BS in a digital/graphic design, or related degree program (e.g. UX design, digital media, human computer interaction) and/or at least 3+ years combo of experience & education
• A strong portfolio of work that showcases specific examples of completed software applications, prototypes, and user interface designs (major bonus points for mobile UI examples and telling the story of the user needs, success metrics, and what you learned along the way)
• A track record of successfully working with remote teams (this position is primarily remote, collaborating with teams across US Mountain, Central, and Eastern time zones)
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Expertise with modern digital design and prototyping methods & tools including Adobe XD
• Deep understanding of modalities, design patterns, and affordances common among digital applications (primarily web + native mobile)
• Project management skills, e.g. organization, time management, planning, negotiation
• You're current with the latest design tools, processes, trends, and technology
• You don't have to be a professional programmer, but you do have a solid grasp of programming concepts and how technology influences design & vice versa
• Experience working with Agile teams & Lean methodologies
• You're an experienced UI Designer with a track record of working with Agile Scrum teams to create sleek and usable interfaces for desktop and mobile applications
• You have experience and a point of view on how to effectively deliver a corporate design system that enables product teams to efficiently & consistently build out user interfaces across multiple software portfolios
• You have excellent taste and a passion for branding, imagery, iconography, accessibility, typography, and the aesthetics of design
• You sweat the small stuff and care deeply about design details that may be barely perceptible to others while still understanding that perfect is the enemy of good
• You're an excellent communicator, have a growth mindset, bring an upbeat attitude, and enjoy working alongside a diverse team of Interaction Designers, Design Researchers, Product Owners, Developers, and Business Stakeholders to design innovative UI solutions that promote usability and improve customer confidence and satisfaction
• You're open to sharing work in progress and great at receiving & sharing feedback on design work
• You're action-oriented and understand that putting functional software into users' hands is the best way to validate our hypotheses
• You want to work with a great and supportive team that cares about design, our mission, and each other

Preferred Skills and Competencies:

• Experience designing native mobile applications at scale within or for a large enterprise
• Familiarity with Design Thinking principles
• Solid understanding of Android and iOS human interface guidelines
• Understanding of and/or ability to produce quality HTML/CSS
• Familiarity with Angular and React JavaScript frameworks
• Experience developing assets for new brands and guiding teams with digital marketing initiatives

Why Work for Us?

Allegion is a Great Place to Grow your Career if:

• You're seeking a rewarding opportunity that allows you to truly help others. With thousands of employees and customers around the world, there's plenty of room to make an impact. As our values state, "this is your business, run with it".
• You're looking for a company that will invest in your professional development. As we grow, we want you to grow with us.
• You want a culture that promotes work-life balance. Our employees enjoy generous paid time off, because at Allegion we recognize that you have a full life outside of work!

What You'll Get from Us:

• Health, dental and vision insurance coverage, helping you "be safe, be healthy".
• A commitment to your future with a 401K plan, offering a 6% company match and no vesting period
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Unlimited PTO
• Employee Discounts through Perks at Work
• Community involvement and opportunities to give back so you can "serve others, not yourself"
• Opportunities to leverage your unique strengths through CliftonStrengths testing and coaching

Compensation: This range is provided by Allegion. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience.

• The expected Base Salary Range: $110,000 - $141,700, per year. The actual compensation will be determined based on experience and other factors permitted by law.
• Bonus Eligible: yes

Apply Today!

Join our team of experts today and help us make tomorrow's world a safer place!

Not sure if your experience perfectly aligns with the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification and every single preferred qualification of a job posting. At Allegion, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. So, if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every item in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role.

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Allegion is committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace. Together, we embrace all differences and similarities among colleagues, as well as the differences and similarities within the relationships that we foster with customers, suppliers and the communities where we live and work. Whatever your background, experience, race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, disability status, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, we will make sure that you have every opportunity to impress us in your application and the opportunity to give your best at work, not because we're required to, but because it's the right thing to do. We are also committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. If for any reason you cannot apply through our career site and require an accommodation or assistance, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team.

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