
Contractors’ Warehouse —
SR USER EXPERIENCE DESIGNER
Location – Atlanta, GA
Job ID – Req141577
Category – Technology
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Location – Atlanta, GA
Job ID – Req141577
Category – Technology
Company Overview
What’s the best place we’ve ever built? The place where we work. At Home Depot, our goal is to provide the highest level of service, the broadest selection of products, and the most competitive prices. As the world’s largest home improvement specialty retailer, we operate more than 2,200 retail stores across North America. And each of our associates are focused one thing — helping our customers build and improve their homes, businesses, and ultimately their lives.
Position Purpose:
At The Home Depot, we get UX; it is baked into our DNA. Now we are expanding our team to drive new initiatives. As a member of the UX team, you will work with other strategists, designers, and researchers to help craft end-to-end experiences and identify customer needs.
You are a designer with a desire to solve interesting and meaty customer problems. Whether it's using design thinking techniques to drive ideation and alignment or bringing a paper prototype to your user for a quick experiment, you can identify and execute the right steps towards solving a problem. You recognize the value of well-crafted design along with the value of imagination and play in building great products within a business environment.
With passion for good interaction and visual design, you can craft end-to-end experiences to enact cutting-edge retail strategies; balancing user needs with business strategy and ultimately creating delight for your customers. You love to work hand in hand with your users to build a more effective and efficient experience for them. You might not consider yourself a researcher, but you have solid awareness of research best practices and know that research is the foundation towards good design. You can also use evaluative approaches to iteratively improve your products.
You appreciate feedback and support from fellow researchers, designers, engineers, analysts, or product managers in our cross functional environment. You enjoy collaborative effort, taking feedback and input to your UX activities as a means of improving the end result. You are as comfortable influencing business leadership as you are your product leadership and individual contributors. You are the customer and user advocate. You drive innovation by championing actionable user insights, deeply understanding our customers, enhancing product usability, and providing our team avenues to delight our customers. You communicate effectively and share a point of view that guides quality decisions.
Key Responsibilities:
- 25% – Active Contributor in Planning and Strategy Activities – Executes on the experience vision & purpose: Combines user research outputs with OKRs of partners to clearly deliver on the vision of their experiences & drive alignment with partners in solutions on assigned product. Proactively identifies additional value across an experience domain. Leads stakeholder meetings to drive product alignment. Partners with Product, Development, other UX resources. Displays situational adaptability, is able to step in and drive change in products to better align with user needs or organizational goals. Has courage and organizational savvy to drive this change.
- 5% – Coaching and Mentoring – Actively refers outside talent. Coaches junior resources in UX activities. Mentors apprentices in product or workstream.
- 70% – Delivery and Execution – Advocates for design centered thinking inside your product. Provides UX design artifacts & tests usability of their assigned product. Leads data collection and synthesis.
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
- This Position typically reports to the User Experience Manager
- This Position has 0 Direct Reports
Travel Requirements:
- Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.
Physical 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.
Working Conditions:
- Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must be 18 years of age or older
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5-7 years of UX experience in an Enterprise or retail environment or a degree in related field
- 5-7 years of experience working with agile software development teams
- Desire to thrive in a fast-moving environment
- Demonstrated ability to initiate and self-manage complex projects
Minimum Education:
- 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.
Preferred Education:
- 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.
Minimum Years of Work Experience:
- 4
Preferred Years of Work Experience:
- 5
Minimum Leadership Experience:
- None
Preferred Leadership Experience:
- None
Certifications:
- None
Competencies:
- Action Oriented
- Collaborates
- Communicates Effectively
- Customer Focus
- Drives Results
Paid Time Off Benefits
Salaried associates are eligible for 2 weeks of vacation in their first year; FT hourly will be eligible for 40 hours of paid vacation time after 6 months of continuous service; (for positions in Washington State, Spokane, and Tacoma only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater; (for positions in Seattle only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater.
Location – Atlanta, GA
Job ID – Req141577
Category – Technology
Role Overview
Position Purpose:
At The Home Depot, we get UX; it is baked into our DNA. Now we are expanding our team to drive new initiatives. As a member of the UX team, you will work with other strategists, designers, and researchers to help craft end-to-end experiences and identify customer needs.
You are a designer with a desire to solve interesting and meaty customer problems. Whether it's using design thinking techniques to drive ideation and alignment or bringing a paper prototype to your user for a quick experiment, you can identify and execute the right steps towards solving a problem. You recognize the value of well-crafted design along with the value of imagination and play in building great products within a business environment.
With passion for good interaction and visual design, you can craft end-to-end experiences to enact cutting-edge retail strategies; balancing user needs with business strategy and ultimately creating delight for your customers. You love to work hand in hand with your users to build a more effective and efficient experience for them. You might not consider yourself a researcher, but you have solid awareness of research best practices and know that research is the foundation towards good design. You can also use evaluative approaches to iteratively improve your products.
You appreciate feedback and support from fellow researchers, designers, engineers, analysts, or product managers in our cross functional environment. You enjoy collaborative effort, taking feedback and input to your UX activities as a means of improving the end result. You are as comfortable influencing business leadership as you are your product leadership and individual contributors. You are the customer and user advocate. You drive innovation by championing actionable user insights, deeply understanding our customers, enhancing product usability, and providing our team avenues to delight our customers. You communicate effectively and share a point of view that guides quality decisions.
Key Responsibilities:
- 25% – Active Contributor in Planning and Strategy Activities – Executes on the experience vision & purpose: Combines user research outputs with OKRs of partners to clearly deliver on the vision of their experiences & drive alignment with partners in solutions on assigned product. Proactively identifies additional value across an experience domain. Leads stakeholder meetings to drive product alignment. Partners with Product, Development, other UX resources. Displays situational adaptability, is able to step in and drive change in products to better align with user needs or organizational goals. Has courage and organizational savvy to drive this change.
- 5% – Coaching and Mentoring – Actively refers outside talent. Coaches junior resources in UX activities. Mentors apprentices in product or workstream.
- 70% – Delivery and Execution – Advocates for design centered thinking inside your product. Provides UX design artifacts & tests usability of their assigned product. Leads data collection and synthesis.
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
- This Position typically reports to the User Experience Manager
- This Position has 0 Direct Reports
Travel Requirements:
- Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.
Physical 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.
Working Conditions:
- Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must be 18 years of age or older
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5-7 years of UX experience in an Enterprise or retail environment or a degree in related field
- 5-7 years of experience working with agile software development teams
- Desire to thrive in a fast-moving environment
- Demonstrated ability to initiate and self-manage complex projects
Minimum Education:
- 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.
Preferred Education:
- 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.
Minimum Years of Work Experience:
- 4
Preferred Years of Work Experience:
- 5
Minimum Leadership Experience:
- None
Preferred Leadership Experience:
- None
Certifications:
- None
Competencies:
- Action Oriented
- Collaborates
- Communicates Effectively
- Customer Focus
- Drives Results
Paid Time Off Benefits
Salaried associates are eligible for 2 weeks of vacation in their first year; FT hourly will be eligible for 40 hours of paid vacation time after 6 months of continuous service; (for positions in Washington State, Spokane, and Tacoma only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater; (for positions in Seattle only) – Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater.
Remote/virtual – An associate in a remote/virtual role typically is not required to work from a designated Home Depot location to complete their job duties. Limited or infrequent in-office presence may be required. We also refer to this as location – independent.
Learn more about our 4 different work locations. Additional information will be provided during the application process.
As part of the application process for this role, there will be an on-line assessment. The assessment usually takes about 17 minutes to complete. You will be directed to the assessment link immediately after submitting your application. Once you click on the link, you will need to complete it within 72 hours after starting it. You may stop and restart the assessment as many times as you like within the 72-hour time frame.
During the assessment, we’ll ask you questions about your approach to work and various work-related situations. The questions are based on characteristics that are related to performing successfully in hourly roles at The Home Depot, including:
- Professional Experience
- Learning Potential
- Responsibility
- Customer Focus
If you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation related to the assessment, or you would like to obtain more information about the assessment, click here to learn more.
Store Location
9090
2455 PACES FERRY RD
Atlanta, GA
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