Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed.
This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.
Come join the Costco Travel IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.
User Experience (UX) Designers are responsible for creating satisfying and compelling experiences for users of a product, often drawing on results from user research and workflow analysis. They also provide product usability, evaluation, and support to product development teams, including the analysis and investigation of applications/systems including tactile methods, visual graphics, web, multimedia, voice response, and conversational user interaction.
The UI/UX designer on the Costco Travel User Experience Research and Design team will advocate and promote innovative experiences with positive impact. Employing best practices of human-centered design thinking to solve business challenges and to improve the experience for our members and agents.
Costco Travel is seeking a UX designer with a background in both design and research who can help drive the future of Costco Travel’s growing User Experience practice. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating compelling experiences for the users of our products, drawing on results from user research, observation and workflow analysis. The Designer will work closely with Product Management to collaborate on defining design opportunities and utilize your expertise in UX and UI best practices.
If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

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If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. Applicants and employees for this position will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.

Leads overall design strategy that meets business and user needs while considering technical limitations.

• Promotes and supports the principles of user-centered design to stakeholders and executives.
• Prepares and facilitates activities such as affinity diagramming, journey mapping, and user scenario or storyboarding exercises with stakeholders.
• Creates design concepts from design concepts/wireframes to build interactive prototypes and wireframes, demonstrating ability with prototyping tools.
• Presents designs to business stakeholders for approval and is able to support design decisions with research and assessments.
• Prepares and facilitates field research using the most appropriate evaluation method (observations, interviews, etc.)
• Creates sitemaps and process flows.
• Applies understanding and usage of appropriate Accessibility (ADA) patterns across devices (desktop, tablet, mobile)
• Establishes the look and feel for various web interfaces, working within brand guidelines to create visual layouts
• Contributes to defining our Style Guide by designing new visual design patterns and icons