Senior UX Designer

VAS is seeking a highly skilled Senior UX Designer to drive the visual direction of our digital products. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex requirements into elegant, high-fidelity designs and interactive prototypes. You'll work closely with product managers, developers, and other designers to shape digital experiences that are both visually compelling and highly functional. If you are a strategic, detail-oriented designer with deep experience using Figma to create high-fidelity designs and prototypes, we want to speak with you!

Responsibilities:

• Design Leadership: Lead the end-to-end UI design process for web and mobile applications, from initial concept to final developer hand-off.
• Visual Strategy: Develop and maintain comprehensive design systems, style guides, and pattern libraries to ensure brand consistency across all platforms.
• Interactive Prototyping: Create high-fidelity mockups and interactive prototypes (using Figma) to demonstrate complex animations and transitions.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Product Managers and Engineers to define product direction and ensure technical feasibility.
• Mentorship: Provide guidance and constructive feedback to junior designers, fostering their professional growth and maintaining high quality standards.
• User Advocacy: Incorporate accessibility standards and user research insights into design decisions to create inclusive, user-centric experiences.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Experience: 10+ years of professional experience in UX or Product Design, with a strong portfolio showcasing complex digital projects.
  Tool Proficiency: Expert-level mastery of design tools such as Figma, Sketch, or Adobe Creative Suite.
• Demonstrated experience with user research methodologies, usability testing, and A/B testing.
• Technical Knowledge: Understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, and basic JavaScript) to facilitate smooth developer hand-offs.
• Soft Skills: Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to defend design decisions to senior stakeholders.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or a related field.

Accountability

• Knows responsibilities and lives up to them.
• Holds others accountable for delivering what was promised.
• Maintains a results-oriented mindset by getting work done beyond goals set at performance management.
• Adapts, overcomes, and continues effort when things do not go as planned and clearly demonstrates a measure of resilience.

Communication

• Shows an ability to effectively send and receive communication from teammates and other stakeholders.
• Asks questions, asks for help, and stays open when needed. Shows a collaborative, participative, and informed approach on a timely basis about issues, clarifying expectations, and adjusting to the level of understanding.
• Displays active listening and seeks clarification when necessary to demonstrate an ability to give and get the message

Execution

• Acts according to business plans, expectations, and agreements.
• Organizes, prioritizes, and focuses actions to deliver the expected and agreed upon results.
• Leverages resources and solves problems creatively to achieve excellence.
• Makes on-the-spot decisions using sound judgement to meet objectives and timelines.

Leadership

• Leads by example, proving if the team is to work hard and produce quality content, leaders must too.
• Shows commitment not only to the work at hand, but also to promises.
• Demonstrates commitment to act for oneself and in support of the team, including taking the lead role, delegating responsibility to lead from within the team, and pushing from behind toward a goal.
• Shows an ability to be trustworthy, reliable, and open to the team and teammates.

Passion

• Demonstrates a genuine interest in URUS values and culture statement.
• Reveals enthusiasm aligned with URUS strategy; shows dedication and pride to be part of the team 
• Prioritizes company goals over individual goals.
• Demonstrates a personal commitment to be positive and solution-oriented, bringing energy and enthusiasm to customers, team members, and colleagues.

Teamwork

• Understands and trusts teammates and strives to make others better.
• Helps create an environment that uses the best of everybody. Puts team and company goals ahead of personal goals. Offers and accepts cross departmental support. Leads without title if necessary. 
• Sets and accepts direction, communicates with team members, and prioritizes group results over status.

Work Ethic

• Takes ownership of tasks and can be relied on to do the work given.
• Takes a proactive and resourceful approach when something needs to be done as an autonomous, self- starter that prioritizes based on business knowledge.
• Upholds a dedicated and dependable attitude with a hungry, agrarian commitment to deliver results.
• Seizes opportunities to improve processes, situations, or performance to achieve personal, team, company goals.

For the past 40 years we’ve woken up each day to support those that never stop feeding the world – and we have no plans to quit. We set the standard for farm management solutions and fix our eyes on raising the bar to meet the next generation of expectations.

Our software and information solutions help collect and connect a farm's data – from herd management to feed performance, tracking and more. These insights are a source of truth, empowering producers and their trusted advisors to make profit-driven and sustainable management decisions.

Whether near or far, large or small, VAS is at the heart of your dairy.

VAS has deep roots in the industry through its origin within the URUS family of companies. As a holding company with cooperative and private ownership, URUS is a family of businesses at the heart of the dairy and beef industry – Alta Genetics, GENEX, Genetics Australia, Leachman Cattle, Jetstream, PEAK, SCCL, Trans Ova Genetics and VAS.  Each organization has its unique identity, products, and services. These companies work globally to provide cutting-edge dairy and beef genetics, customized reproductive services to maximize conceptions, dairy management information to take producers to the frontline of progressive dairy farming, and an array of products and services to help bovines reach their full genetic potential. URUS has 9 brands in 17 retail countries and employs nearly 2,800 people globally.