FLEX Senior UX Designer, User Experience and Design

Senior UX Designer

Marriott's Brand Digital Experience team sets the vision for how 30+ brands show up online. As a Senior UX Designer, you'll play a key role in bringing that vision to lifeturning strategy into thoughtful, brand-authentic digital experiences.

This is a hands-on role in an agile environment. You'll design flows, build prototypes, polish details, collaborate with product and engineering, and help ensure work ships smoothly. While execution is at the heart of the role, you'll also have opportunities to contribute ideas, shape decisions, and influence how our brands come to life digitally.

Working at Marriott means designing within a large, global organization where there are many moving parts and stakeholders to align. The right person will be comfortable navigating that complexitycommunicating clearly, keeping momentum, and finding ways to move work forward with creativity and persistence. Success here means having a keen design eye and being a master of the detailsmaking sure every interaction works beautifully and feels true to the brand.

What You'll Do

• Translate design strategy into flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI
• Apply Marriott's design system while knowing when to adapt for brand individuality
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and research in sprints
• Share progress openly, flag blockers early, and help keep projects moving in a global, multi-team environment
• Balance usability, conversion, and storytelling in every decision
• Present work clearly, tying design choices back to strategy and user needs

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years in UX/Product Design for large-scale sites, apps, or digital products
• Portfolio that shows strong UX craft, storytelling, and shipped work
• Sharp design eye and strong attention to detail
• Fluency with Figma, FigJam, and prototyping tools, AEM Storybook (or equivalent); Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Strong communicator who explains the "why" and adapts to feedback
• Comfortable working across multiple teams and stakeholders in a global organization
• Experience in hospitality, travel, or global brand design a plus

Core Work Activities

• Demonstrating and Applying Discipline Knowledge
• Provides subject matter expertise on key functional systems to help shepherd strategic initiatives from idea to feasible implementation
• References Design System for appropriate patterns, components, and styles during user experience design work
• Produces both innovative high-level design concepts / strategy visualizations as well as development-ready designs with specifications
• Ensure a quality experience on live digital products by participating in the user acceptance testing process
• Keeps skills up-to-date on industry trends and applies new knowledge to job, identifying strategic opportunities for competitive advantages through those findings
• Clearly present your work citing industry best practices, qual and quant data to support your decisions
• Be a thought partner providing recommendations based on research and data for experience enhancements across all digital touchpoints
• Collaborates with a variety of user experience disciplines within the both the UX team, product team, and development teams (Information Architecture, Design System/Standards, User Research, Copywriting, Front-End, Functional, Authoring) to advance your work

Managing Work, Projects, and Policies

• Provides accurate estimates as to needed time to complete work to feed project plans (and therefore personal deadlines)
• Meets deadlines once agreed upon
• Reports impediments to completing work and meeting deadlines
• Provides regular status updates to manager
• Successfully manages multiple assignments at once
• Accepts critique and critiques work of others in a helpful and professional manner
• Communicates in a timely and appropriate manner with teammates
• Manage other individual contributors on the team
• Works independently with minimal supervision, but knows when issues should be escalated to manager
• Develops relationships with members of other teams, and leverages those relationships to answer questions
• Presents work with clarity and confidence; Performs other reasonable duties as assigned by manage

The pay range for this position is $47.30 to $73.61 per hour.

Washington Applicants Only: Employees will accrue 0.0334 PTO balance for every hour worked and eligible to receive minimum of 9 holidays annually.

FLEX opportunities offer coverage for medical, dental, vision, health care flexible spending account, dependent care flexible spending account, life insurance, disability insurance, accident insurance, adoption expense reimbursements, paid parental leave, 401(k) plan, stock purchase plan, discounts at Marriott properties, commuter benefits, employee assistance plan, and childcare discounts. Benefits are subject to terms and conditions, which may include rules regarding eligibility, enrollment, waiting period, contribution, benefit limits, election changes, benefit exclusions, and others.

Marriott HQ is committed to a hybrid work environment that enables associates to Be connected. Headquarters-based positions are considered hybrid, for candidates within a commuting distance to Bethesda, MD; candidates outside of commuting distance to Bethesda, MD will be considered for Remote positions.