Senior UX Designer, Gravitate

Posted:
10/4/2024, 9:51:19 AM

Location(s):
Dallas, Texas, United States ⋅ Texas, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
UI/UX & Design

Why Gravitate?

For over a decade, Gravitate has been assisting energy and commodity companies get more value from their supply chains. We offer AI-powered software that simplifies collaboration and supports better decision-making. Whether you're a c-store operator, fuel wholesaler, or refiner, our solutions are designed to help you optimize supply, reduce costs, automate workflows, and strengthen customer relationships.

Our products include:

  • Best-Buy & Dispatch: Optimizes supply and logistics in the retail fuel industry, helping with C-store supply decisions, demand forecasting, and route dispatching.
  • Online Selling Platform: Real-time online sales of refined products, designed to optimize the buying experience.
  • Pricing Engine: A powerful tool for fuel wholesalers, using data science to automate pricing, improve accuracy, and increase both revenue and margins.

Position Overview

We are seeking a Senior UX Designer to lead the design of intuitive, effective, and beautiful experiences for our AI-driven products. As a key player in the Product team, you will champion the design thinking process, elevate user experiences, and deliver products that resonate with users across the energy and commodities sectors. 

Your expertise will contribute to making complex workflows simple, driving product adoption, and enabling our customers to achieve their goals efficiently.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design Execution: Create and refine user interfaces, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity visual designs that improve interaction and accessibility.
  • Maintain Design Consistency: Support the creation and management of Gravitate’s design system, ensuring visual and functional consistency across all platforms and products.
  • Collaboration with Stakeholders: Work closely with Product, Engineering, and other business units to gather requirements, understand objectives, and provide user journey mapping and rapid concepting.
  • Champion the Design Thinking Process: Advocate for a user-centered approach across all stages of product development—from research and ideation to prototyping, testing, and final implementation.
  • Lead and Mentor: Provide leadership, guidance, and support to other designers. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish best practices and align design efforts with business goals.
  • User Research: Conduct user research and usability testing to gain insights and validate design decisions. Use qualitative and quantitative data to guide the design process.
  • Ensure ADA Compliance: Ensure all designs adhere to accessibility standards and inclusive design practices, making Gravitate products usable for all users.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of UX design experience, with at least 2 years in a leadership or senior design role.
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating a deep understanding of interaction and visual design.
  • Proven experience with user journey mapping, wireframing, and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch, InVision).
  • Experience working within complex, AI-powered B2B SaaS environments is a plus.
  • Ability to translate complex business requirements into simple, intuitive, and elegant design solutions.
  • Knowledge of ADA compliance and a commitment to inclusive design.
  • Strong collaboration skills with the ability to lead workshops, guide brainstorming sessions, and communicate effectively with stakeholders.
  • A passion for problem-solving, a strong sense of ownership, and an eagerness to drive impactful solutions for users.

What You’ll Be Working On

As a Senior UX Designer at Gravitate, you’ll play a key role in shaping how our users interact with these solutions. You’ll lead design efforts across multiple products, working closely with cross-functional teams to create seamless, user-centered experiences that make complex tasks simple and intuitive. Your work will directly impact how our customers use technology to drive efficiency and achieve their business goals.

About the Gravitate team:

To understand who our people are, you should first understand what they’re not: replaceable. Each member of the team is chosen carefully and with intention. We believe that finding the right fit is more important than a laundry list of credentials – and that people are people first, and titles second. 

Because we hire the Gravitate way, our team is certainly one of a kind. We’ve brought together incredible talent that regularly collaborates to create clean, fresh solutions. That effort has led to remarkable opportunities, including work with many Fortune 500 clients. We’ve found that the winning combination of exciting achievements, trust in one another and open communication lays the groundwork for long-lasting, successful careers. That, and the fact that we clap for each other at every opportunity.

Problem solvers, go-getters and charge-takers -  we (really) want to hear from you.