Senior UI​/UX Designer

Overview

The UI/UX Designer III is a senior role within the UI/UX job family focusing on delivering best-in-class user experiences for internal and external users. This position translates complex designs and concepts into streamlined designs and capabilities and serves as a subject matter expert in the field.

• Experience and knowledge of UX principles, methodologies, and design best practices, including user-centered design, user research methodologies, and accessibility standards.
• Research and gather in-depth insights into users’ needs using techniques such as user observation, group facilitation, and storyboarding.
• Create wireframes, design specifications, prototypes, and user flow diagrams that articulate complex journeys across multiple webpages, touchpoints, and platforms.
• Translate complex business processes into simple, logical, easy-to-use systems; design page structure and content organization.
• Work with product and development teams to define user requirements.
• Ensure design standards and guidelines are maintained and shared with development teams to guide product design.
• Demonstrate strong active listening and collaboration skills; influence others to align with a common vision.
• Understand project management approaches and tools (Scrum, Kanban, Lean) and experience with JIRA, Confluence, or equivalent documentation tools.
• Participate in end-to-end design reviews with project teams and lead UX discussions with project teams.
• Consider existing insights, technical constraints, business needs, and platform demands to produce user-centered, data-driven, design-focused solutions.
• Advocate and evangelize user-centered design and research best practices.
• Create tools to guide teams toward usable and intuitive design; partner with cross-functional teams to establish cohesive design standards across the enterprise.
• Mentor and coach team members on usability and design best practices.

• Associate or bachelor’s degree preferred but not required.
• 4+ years of recent experience in visual design craftsmanship, with the ability to anticipate and address user needs.
• Professional level knowledge of industry-standard design software (Figma, Adobe Creative Suite).
• Experience with integration platforms such as Marketing Cloud, Salesforce, Appian or similar.
• Experience with both public-facing and internally facing web applications.
• Experience in responsive frontend development (HTML, CSS, Sass, etc.) and familiarity with design systems (e.g., Material Design).

• Aesthetic Design
• Agile Software Development
• Content Management Systems
• Information Architecture
• Persona (User Experience)
• Responsive Web Design
• Stakeholder Management
• UI/UX Strategy
• User Experience (UX) Design
• Visual Design
• Wire framing

• Active Listening
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration and Teamwork
• Creativity and Innovation
• Decisiveness
• Planning and Priority Setting
• Quality Focus
• Time Management
• Applying Standard Practices
• Managing Innovation

Clayton is committed to opening doors to a better life. As a leading single-family, values-driven home builder, Clayton focuses on attainable housing, sustainable practices, and creating a world-class experience for customers and team members. Our portfolio includes a broad offering of attainable housing, and as a vertically integrated home builder, we serve customers through every stage of the home ownership journey – building, selling, financing, and insuring homes.

• Competitive benefits including 401(k) with 100% company match of the first 4%;
• Medical, dental and vision plans; paid time off days and holidays.
• Quarterly bonus program.
• Recognized as one of East Tennessee’s top technology workplaces.
• Wellness programs covering emotional, social, spiritual, intellectual, environmental, physical, and financial well-being.
• Onsite fitness facility with gym, classes, and recreational amenities.
• Paid Time Off for Volunteer work.

Equal Opportunity Employer statement:
Clayton is committed to creating an inclusive workplace. Clayton is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.