Principal Visual Designer, Software Applications

Job Description
This role is within the UX team at Cricut. The group is responsible for user research, interaction design and visual design of software applications across desktop and mobile platforms. We design intuitive, easy-to-use software that inspires our customers, and helps them design and make unique, personalized projects.
The team is uniquely positioned – with direct connections to the executive team and CEO - and we collaborate across the organization to ensure hardware, content, materials, and software all work together to deliver awesome experiences. Our UX team members come from varied backgrounds and experience;
all of us were drawn tothe mission of empowering every person to be creative.
If you are interested in helping others realize their creativity and enjoy working on consumer-facing hardware / software, Cricut may have the dream job for you!
We are looking for top-notch, seasoned UX visual design leaders who have vision, communicate it well and love deep problem solving.
This position is not about skinning software;
it is about artfully applying visual communication to create compelling user experiences. Applicants must have significant experience designing the visual appearance of software applications. This is a once-in-a-lifetime job opportunity – the right person will have incredible impact on the look and feel of Cricut’s software across the board.
You’ll focus on the design of delightful software experiences that clearly communicate functionality and interactivity, while maintaining and extending Cricut’s brand. You’ll have the opportunity to participate in the entire user-centered UX design process – from concept through execution, incorporating customer feedback throughout the process. Your work will happen in a highly collaborative environment, where you partner with interaction designers, researchers, product managers, software developers, industrial designers, and colleagues from the Marketing and Creative teams.
Responsibilities:
Create visual designs that support compelling user experiences on a variety of software platforms (including desktop and mobile) that integrate with our branded ecosystem of machines, materials and accessories.
Deliver work that translates complex ideas into simple and useful designs.
Collaborate with UX researchers, interaction designers, product managers, software developers and QA to deliver high quality visual designs that communicate clearly and effectively.
Help drive development of a visual design system that will empower the UX team and developers to move more quickly, with consistency.
Participate in every stage of the user-centered design process – visualize possibilities early in the design process to facilitate communication, create graphics to support user-testable prototypes, and deliver pixel-perfect visual designs that are implementation-ready.
Clearly articulate how and why your design directions address the challenge at hand and be ready to consider tradeoffs and alternatives to meet new requirements as they arise.
Leverage, extend and maintain the integrity of the Cricut brand in collaboration with our Creative Team (who are responsible for packaging, marketing, etc.)
Balance work on several design projects simultaneously, bringing system’s thinking and a clear understanding of relationships between different aspects of the software to ensure visual coherence.
Execute to the quality of top consumer brands such as Apple and Google Nest, stay abreast of visual product design trends, and communicate them to the entire UX team to ensure our work and process are state-of-the-art.