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User Experience Designer
*Please send candidates regardless of pay rate, experience and background is most important
Purpose:
The IT User Experience department at our client is dedicated to improving the usability and overall experience of internal and customer facing applications. We are committed to fostering a design and development environment that places the end user at the center of all IT related processes and products. As a part of this commitment, we are seeking a skilled UX designer who can rapidly design user interfaces for an interactive configurator application.
An ideal candidate will have worked as part of a cross-functional team and be able to effectively contribute to the design of consistent and reusable patterns. Interest in test-driven iteration.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to develop and execute interactive and visual design
- Work directly with internal stakeholders and clients, as part of a cross-functional agile team, to interpret and understand unique user and business needs
- Document requirements during sprint planning meetings and produce annotated wireframes for client approval
- Conduct competitive analysis for product design, documenting competitive functions and features
- Quickly move from requirement gathering to concept design
- Rapidly develop working prototypes to communicate with key stakeholders
- Participate in daily stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives
- Plan and execute usability testing
Demonstrates the following skills and behaviors:
- Strong analytical skills with attention to detail
- Basic understanding of general good software development practices
- Maintain awareness of new and emerging technologies and their potential applications in the digital product design space
- Rapid iteration of design concepts
- Willingness to collaborate on ambiguous problems, in real-time
- Proficient understanding of browser compatibility constraints
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- A driven personality, and ability to work with minimal supervision
- Ability to deliver on-time, on-budget, quality deliverables within a Scrum development team
Required Knowledge and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Graphic Design, Digital Product Design, or related field
- 4+ years in a UX design role for software and web applications
- A portfolio of client work In the digital product design space
- Demonstrate understanding of user-centered design, web and mobile app principals, and the value of user testing/feedback
- Firm understanding of UX best practices
- Experience using digital design tools such as Figma, Illustrator, or Sketch
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
- Experience presenting creative vision and recommendations to clients.
- Strong knowledge and/or personal use of Sketch App, Adobe Creative Suite, and prototyping tools such as Invision or Principle
- Ability to manage your time, tasks, and adhere to deadlines
- Experience working across disciplines, and advanced skills in proactively identifying issues and solutions
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