What you’ll be called: Associate User Experience Designer

Where you’ll work: KWRI Headquarters—Austin, TX

Named a Happiest Company to Work for in 2019; one of the Best Places to Work in Austin, TX; and featured on the Training Magazine Training 125 list seven times, Keller Williams Realty International (KWRI) thrives within a creative and collaborative culture where transforming the real estate industry through technology is our primary goal.

KW Technology is the foremost provider of real estate solutions, offering the most comprehensive end-to-end portfolio of products, services and training in the industry. Our passionate and experienced team converts agent challenges into opportunities to enable our agents to drive greater intimacy in the relationships they have with their customers and enabling consumers to chart their own customer journey.

What you’ll do:

Assist in the design and development of consumer and agent facing real estate experiences within Keller Williams’ innovation engine, KW Labs. Partnering with teams of designers, researchers, engineers and product managers, you will use design tools to create hi-fidelity designs for mobile and web applications.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Participate in the ideation and development phases of our KW Labs innovation model.
• Design interfaces as a part of our Experience Lifecycle process by incorporating feedback from user research, stakeholders, product management, and engineering.
• Create documentation that enables developers to build products to specifications.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and researchers to solve problems through innovative UI.
• Engage in regular design reviews and other team-wide design efforts.
• Serve as an advocate for users by conducting and facilitating user research.
• Communicate conceptual ideas and design rationale to stakeholders while maintaining alignment to company branding and style guidelines.
• Play a role in developing a design system that serves our product portfolio.

Minimum Requirements:

• 1 or more years of UI/UX design experience.
• A portfolio that demonstrates an understanding of basic design principles.
• Experience with design techniques such as storyboarding, user research and prototyping.
• Experience producing hi-fidelity designs in Sketch, prototyping in Invision, and/or managing design assets in Abstract.

Preferred Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree in Design (graphic, interaction, visual communications, product, industrial), HCI or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 3 or more years of UI/UX design experience.
• Familiarity with Agile development process (comfortable with rapid iteration cycles).
• Strong background in interactive as well as visual design.
• Ability to create prototypes quickly using Sketch, Invision, HTML/CSS/JS.
• Ability to communicate product vision and implement feedback into their work.
• Familiarity with design techniques such as storyboarding, card sorting, affinity mapping and other UX research exercises.
• Enterprise product design experience, ideally in an extremely fast paced environment.
• Prior experience working with outside vendors.

Who are we?

Keller Williams Realty Inc. is the largest real estate company by agent count across the globe and is number one in units and volume in the United States. Founded in 1983, we pride ourselves on an agent-centric, technology-driven and education-based culture that rewards agents as stakeholders. Keller Williams Realty International (KWRI), is the company’s corporate headquarters located in Austin, TX. Here, through a focus on cutting edge technology, education, and products and services, we support our agents and associates to create careers worth having, businesses worth owning, lives worth living, experiences worth giving and legacies worth leaving.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We're driving growth and innovation at the global headquarters of the world's largest real estate franchise company!

When you join KWRI, you join a diverse team of passionate professionals who are redefining the global real estate industry. We support and innovate on behalf of over 170,000 Keller Williams real estate professionals worldwide.

We are writers, coaches, developers, designers, accountants, filmmakers, planners, lawyers and philanthropists. Each of us are trailblazers with the incredible opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the direction of this fast-growing company.