Job Description

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life. Verizon is one of the world’s leading providers of technology and communications services, transforming the way we connect around the world. We’re a human network that reaches across the globe and works behind the scenes. If you’re fueled by purpose, and powered by persistence, explore a career with us.

The Verizon Value Organization is Verizon’s portfolio of prepaid brands: Verizon Prepaid, Visible, Total By Verizon, Straight Talk, Tracfone and more – serving millions of customers through multiple channels. Our mission in the Value Organization is to build a better-connected world through accessible, quality wireless for all.

This role is within the Value Digital / Customer Experience team where we create and improve digitally-led experiences for our customers, striving for reliable, simple, exceptional world-class journeys.

About this role

We are seeking a Senior Engineering Consultant to join our Verizon Value Design System team. This role will be responsible for crafting a design system that powers multiple brands, multiple channel experiences in the Verizon Value portfolio. 

The Senior Engineering Consultant will code and create the visual front-end elements of the design system component library, documentation, and usage guidelines within the Verizon Value Design System. Join us to help set new standards in our category and make our customers' interactions with our brands truly reliable, simple and exceptional.

What you’ll be doing…

• Creating patterns for the Verizon Value Design System to create a consistent user experience

• Thoroughly explore, refine and document the development solutions

• Actively explore user context, and engage in target user activities when possible

• Participating in insight-gathering activities (informal or formal, primary or secondary) and create solutions that leverage user insights

• Actively research competitive products, industry trends, and topics, and recommend activities, solutions, and methods to guide team members and stakeholders

• Staying updated on Verizon's business, strategy, and organizational structure

• Effectively design solutions within Verizon's business context and revenue model

• Maintaining a working knowledge of UI standards for common platforms (iOS, Android, Web).

• Working within Verizon Value’s front-end and back-end technology constraints and capabilities.

• Giving and receiving constructive feedback.

• Communicating the current project plan, goals, and expected outcomes.

• Articulating user, business, and/or technical reasoning for detailed design decisions in critiques or presentations.

• Mentoring peers and new hires by sharing experiences and processes to enable growth.

• Identifying project needs and engage stakeholders in conversation to fully understand needs.

• Presenting work and engaging in constructive dialogue with stakeholders to understand the context of tasks and ensure strong design rationale.

• Contributing to recommendations for shaping appropriate user insight-gathering activities (informal or formal, primary or secondary).

• Playing a role in evolving the design system by proposing updates and participating in feedback opportunities

• Exploring, refining, and documenting engineering solutions while adhering to design system guidelines

What we’re looking for…

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Four or more years of relevant work experience.

• Experience with Agile software delivery environments.

• Experience with common design software (Figma, Adobe, etc.).

• Experience with UI Architecture, Responsive design, SPA, and/or Design Patterns.

• Experience front-end technologies of React JS and TypeScript.

• Experience writing code and maintainable software.

• Experience with web performance, web accessibility, release cycle management, CI/CD pipeline, and/or SDLC Process.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science.

• Portfolio of professional work.

• Experience with Agile software delivery environments.

• Contributed to multiple design programs or shipped products with a large user base.

• Contributed to overall product success.

• Experience with Fortune 500 organizational environments.

• Experience with Redux, React Native, JavaScript (ES5, ES6), Object Oriented JavaScript, Webpack, Rollup, Ajax, SCSS, Styled Component, HTML5, and/or CSS3.

• Experience Micro Frontend, Next JS.

• Hands-on experience in writing Unit Tests using Jest.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Diversity and Inclusion

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. At Verizon, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion page to learn more.